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US Tortures Kuwaitis at Guantanamo Naval Base

Washington, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) Human rights lawyer Tom Wilner has accused US troops of torturing several Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo Naval Base.

Wilner, who represents 11 Kuwaiti convicts at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by Washington, said detainees are tortured and abused by US forces, which beat them with chains, sodomize them and give them electrical shocks.

"These are classic stories of men who ended up in Guantanamo by mistake," charged the lawyer.

In a conference call from Washington on Monday the lawyer detailed the abuse, citing recently declassified notes from his meetings with the detainees.

Wilner also upheld that another five detainees have complained about the same treatment. They were stripped naked and kept without clothes for extended periods of time.

The worst of those abuse cases occurred at US detention facilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan before the Kuwaiti men were transferred to Guantanamo.

"In the original prisons in Pakistan and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo, the most disturbing thing to most of them was religious humiliation. They were mocked for being Muslims," the lawyer added.

The US has been facing mounting international criticism for torturing prisoners at its detention centers all over the world. FBI memos that were recently made public also accused Pentagon interrogators of using torture techniques.

 

 

 

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