Bahraini in US jail talks of his ordeal
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05/18/2007 12:16 AM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: A Bahraini held at Guantanamo Bay has drawn a painfully bleak picture of his conditions in the US-run prison camp, saying that he was earnestly looking forward to his death.
“I can say that life and death here are equal, but death has become my greatest hope to end my misery, suffering and sad life. Now, we are in psychotherapy unit facing different kinds of regular torture at the hands of the officers and physicians. Even the physician of the clinic whom every one calls Flintstone excelled in criminality,” Juma Al Dossari has written in an emotional letter to his US lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.
Bahraini in US jail talks of his ordeal
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Bahrain/10125983.html
05/18/2007 12:16 AM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: A Bahraini held at Guantanamo Bay has drawn a painfully bleak picture of his conditions in the US-run prison camp, saying that he was earnestly looking forward to his death.
“I can say that life and death here are equal, but death has become my greatest hope to end my misery, suffering and sad life. Now, we are in psychotherapy unit facing different kinds of regular torture at the hands of the officers and physicians. Even the physician of the clinic whom every one calls Flintstone excelled in criminality,” Juma Al Dossari has written in an emotional letter to his US lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.
“Misfortunes have become unbearable, disasters increased, catastrophes had heavy hands on me, doors have closed in my face, all roads are blocked in my path; hopes vanished, earth with all its spaciousness, seems much smaller to us; our souls have become constrained by the small space we live in, moaning and sad tears have become the daily norm, grief increased, worries and despair intensified, awakened eyes get no sleep, and life has become dead dark,” Al Dossari said in his letter sent to Gulf News by rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
Al Dossari, one of two Bahraini prisoners at the camp, said he had been sleeping on the cement floor for more than a month now and that he had only his trousers and an orange shirt as cover.
“I am here deprived of the simplest human rights; I cannot describe the degree of our tragedy or the graveness of our misfortune. We are facing here the most horrible type of oppression, physical torture and terrorising treatment. What is happening here is what I call a cemetery or morgue for living people and is a mark of disgrace and shame for the United States. We are being tortured physically and psychologically on a regular basis and we die here a hundred times a day,” he wrote.
Putting an end to misery
“I swear to God if I have the opportunity, I will end my life. I want to put an end to this psychological and physical torture by any means. I am looking for an end to my life. The greatest wish to my sick heart is a heart failure after which they can do whatever they want with my body. I am a human being but a dead one without rights, dignity, humanity or identity.”
Al Dossari, a 34-year-old divorced father of a 12-year-old daughter, has tried to commit suicide 13 times and was once saved by his own lawyer.
