Inside the US Torture Chambers: Prisoner's Guantánamo Diary Details 12 Years of Abuse, Terror
January 22, 2015
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as posted by the channelAfter a sevenyear legal battle, the diary of a prisoner held at Guantánamo Bay has just been published and has become a surprise bestseller. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s diary details his experience with rendition, torture and being imprisoned without charge. Slahi has been held at the prison for more than 12 years. He was ordered released in 2010 but is still being held. "The cell better, the box was cooled down so that I was shaking most of the time," he writes. "I was forbidden from seeing the light of the day. Every once in a while they gave me a rec time in the night to keep me from seeing or interacting with any detainees. I was living literally in terror. I don't remember having slept one night quietly; for the next 70 days to come I wouldn't know the sweetness of sleeping. Interrogation for 24 hours, three and sometimes four shifts a day. I rarely got a day off." We air a clip of a Guardian video about Slahi's case, which features actors Colin Firth and Dominic West reading from his diary. We speak with three guestsSlahi’s lawyer, Nancy Hollander; book editor, Larry Siems; and Col. Morris Davis, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, who says Slahi is "no more a terrorist than Forrest Gump."
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