Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch

Shoroeiya and Sharif said that once in
Afghanistan, they were detained and
interrogated—for more than a year in
Shoroeiya’s case, and for two years in
Sharif’s case—by US personnel. This
included being chained to walls
naked—sometimes while diapered—in
pitch black, windowless cells, for
weeks or months at a time; being
restrained in painful stress positions
for long periods of time, being forced
into cramped spaces; being beaten and
slammed into walls; being kept inside
for nearly five months without the ability to bathe; being denied food; being denied sleep by
continuous, deafeningly loud Western music; and being subjected to different forms of water
torture including, in Shoroeiya’s case, waterboarding.
Following their US detention, they were rendered to Libya,
where they were again abused in detention. Both were
eventually summarily tried and convicted, with Shoroeiya
sentenced to life in prison and Sharif sentenced to death
by firing squad. Sharif was released on March 23, 2010,
after nearly five years in prison, as part of a negotiated
agreement involving other imprisoned LIFG leaders and
hundreds of other prisoners. Shoroeiya was released on
February 16, 2011, when the uprisings against Gaddafi
began.
Human Rights Watch interviewed Shoroeiya and Sharif
separately on two different days in March 2012 in Tripoli
and then again by phone from New York in May 2012. Human Rights Watch also spoke to
Shoroeiya in Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli in April 2009. The men have been in contact with one
another since their release from Libyan custody.
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Mohammed al-Shoroeiya. © 2012 Human Rights Watch
Khalid al-Sharif
© 2012 Human Rights Watch