http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Bahrain/10066275.html
09/09/2006 11:52 PM | Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are invariably telling psychologists that they were fine in order to avoid stricter detention conditions, Juma Al Dossary, Bahrain’s most famous inmate at the US centre, has said.
Quoted by his lawyer Joshua Bryan-Colangelo, Al Dossary said that he and the other detainees were providing positive answers to weekly questions by psychologists about their mental condition.
“Al Dossary said that all detainees have learned to report that they are fine because otherwise they will be held under even stricter conditions,” said Bryan-Colangelo who visited his client last month.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Bahrain/10066275.html
09/09/2006 11:52 PM | Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are invariably telling psychologists that they were fine in order to avoid stricter detention conditions, Juma Al Dossary, Bahrain’s most famous inmate at the US centre, has said.
Quoted by his lawyer Joshua Bryan-Colangelo, Al Dossary said that he and the other detainees were providing positive answers to weekly questions by psychologists about their mental condition.
“Al Dossary said that all detainees have learned to report that they are fine because otherwise they will be held under even stricter conditions,” said Bryan-Colangelo who visited his client last month.
“Two psychiatrists visit Al Dossary once a week to spend a few minutes with him and ask the same questions about his condition,” the lawyer said, raising doubts about the ‘mental health care’. He said that the ‘psychtech’ saw him every day and asked the same questions: “Are you eating well?, Are you sleeping well?, Do you think about hurting yourself? and, Do you think about hurting others?”
The lawyer charged that the attention that his client was receiving at Guantanamo was ‘inadequate’.
