Torture and sexual abuse during interrogation. For the first time a detainee from Guantanamo, the American anti-terrorism prison in Cuba, speaks publicly about the practices used in the so-called 'Black Sites' of the CIA where, in violation of the' Habeas corpus' legislation (against arbitrary detentions) 'advanced interrogations were conducted ', comparable precisely to torture.
Speaking is Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident hired as a courier by al-Qaeda, during a hearing in which jurors must decide on his war crimes sentence. Khan said he was hung naked from a ceiling beam, kept awake for days in ice-cold water, waterboarded, beaten, starved, and sexually abused.
If convicted, the inmate faces up to 40 years in prison.
With a plea deal, the sentence could be reduced to 11 years, but since he has been in prison since 2012, with a penalty discount he could be free as early as next year and transferred to another country other than Pakistan, of which he owns the citizenship.
