Guantanamo detainees ‘feel strain of separation’
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12/04/2006 07:54 PM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: The two Bahrainis still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison are increasingly feeling the strain of separation from their families, their lawyer has said.
Reporting on his visit last month to the US-run detention centre, Joshua Bryan-Colangelo said that Juma Al Dossary and Eisa Al Murbati told him about their pain and anguish at spending more than five years away from their families.
“Juma said that he simply wants to go home and that he does not care about anything else. He said that he wants to live far away from everyone except his family,” the New-York based lawyer said in a statement relayed to Gulf News by human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
Guantanamo detainees ‘feel strain of separation’
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Bahrain/10087171.html
12/04/2006 07:54 PM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: The two Bahrainis still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison are increasingly feeling the strain of separation from their families, their lawyer has said.
Reporting on his visit last month to the US-run detention centre, Joshua Bryan-Colangelo said that Juma Al Dossary and Eisa Al Murbati told him about their pain and anguish at spending more than five years away from their families.
“Juma said that he simply wants to go home and that he does not care about anything else. He said that he wants to live far away from everyone except his family,” the New-York based lawyer said in a statement relayed to Gulf News by human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
“Juma despaired that he has now spent nearly five years in Cuba. He spoke sadly about the fact that his daughter is growing up without him and talked of how he was not able to see his father before his father’s death.”
Dossary who attempted suicide 13 times was depressed hearing that his sister was married without him being at the ceremony and that “this was first time anyone in his family had been married without the whole family being present.”
According to the lawyer who helped with the release of the four other Bahrainis detained in 2001, Al Murbati is also feeling mental anguish about not seeing his family.
“He said that guards had taken the photographs of his children that he brought to Guantanamo and those photographs had not been returned to him. He asked that we send the photographs again so that he can have a reminder of home,” the lawyer said.
