Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch
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“He told me, we will<br />
bring all of you. We have<br />
Belhadj and Saadi. We<br />
will get you all and bring<br />
would not be any worse than Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib<br />
prison in Iraq. Abu Farsan said the American agent never<br />
physically abused him.<br />
In total, Abu Farsan was in Sudanese custody for about<br />
you here.”<br />
two weeks. He spent much of that time on a hunger strike<br />
because the authorities would not tell him where his wife<br />
and son were. Then, on the morning of August 21 or 22,<br />
he was told that he would be going back to Libya. He was taken to a plane with Libyan<br />
intelligence agents on board. At some point his family came on board as well. They were all<br />
flown together to Tripoli.<br />
Treatment in Libya<br />
Upon arrival in Tripoli, he was again separated from his wife and child and taken to the<br />
external affairs building at the Tajoura prison. Abu Farsan said that on the first day, he was<br />
brought to see Musa Kusa:<br />
“He told me, we will bring all of you. We have Belhadj and Saadi. We will<br />
get you all and bring you here.”<br />
For 16 months, Libyan authorities held him in isolation in a dark cell “about the size of a<br />
mattress.” He had no idea what had happened to his family. He was forbidden from<br />
speaking to other prisoners, and the only time he was taken out of his cell was for interrogation.<br />
Abu Farsan said that for the first month, Libyan agents interrogated him constantly,<br />
day and night. After the first month, he was not interrogated again, though he said sometimes<br />
Libyan intelligence agents would show him photographs of people and ask if he<br />
knew anything about them. Foreign intelligence agents never interrogated him.<br />
On December 23, 2004, Abu Farsan was taken out of Tajoura prison. For the next year-anda-half,<br />
he was transferred back and forth between the Sikka and Enzara prisons. During<br />
that time, he was told that his wife and son were in Libya, and he was allowed to see them.<br />
He was also during this period tried and convicted for being a member of the LIFG, possessing<br />
fake documents, participating in the Afghan jihad, and providing material support<br />
to the LIFG. On March 15, 2006, Abu Farsan was sentenced to life in prison.<br />
115 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2012