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Briton
tells
of
Guantanamo
base
abuse
One of the four Britons freed by the United States from Guantanamo Bay has narrated horrific tales of torture during detention.
The
Independent
on
Sunday
newspaper
quoted
a
testimony
by
Moazzam
Begg
in
which
he
talked
of
witnessing
the
killing
of
fellow
detainees
and
receiving
threats
to
his
family. Arrested
in
Pakistan
in
January
2001,
Begg
said
his
interrogation
began
at
Bagram
air
base
in
Afghanistan
and
that
it
included
being
shackled
and
dragged,
having
a
"suffocating
hood"
placed
on
his
head
and
being
struck
on
the
head
several
times. Fatal
beatings He
also
said
he
had
witnessed
two
fatal
beatings
during
interrogations
by
US
officials
in
Afghanistan.
"Two
of
these
beatings
resulted
in
the
deaths
of
two
detainees
in
June
and
December
2002.
I
was
witness
to
both,
in
some
fashion,"
said
Begg. He
also
said
he
was
interrogated
more
than
250
times
during
his
detention. Begg's
25-page
testimony
was
written
while
in
solitary
confinement
last
year
at
Guantanamo
Bay. He
said
a
confession
he
signed
at
Guantanamo
Bay
was
extracted
"by
coercion,
and
under
duress". Begg,
along
with
Richard
Belmar,
Martin
Mubanga
and
Feroz
Abbasi,
was
returned
to
the
United
Kingdom
after
up
to
three
years
in
detention
at
Guantanamo
Bay.
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