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Position 1 154
Position 2
Position 3
“I would try to take that time to use the bucket for a toilet I had
in my room, but could not do so all the time, so I usually would
just pass urine through my clothes.”
Sharif said that at one point he spent two weeks in position 3, with both his arms and legs
shackled to the iron ring. During this time, they would unchain him only once a day for half
an hour to eat the one meal they gave him. Afterwards they would chain his hands and feet
back up to the wall: “I would try to take that time to use the bucket for a toilet I had in my
room, but could not do so all the time, so I usually would just pass urine through my
clothes.” 155
Shoroeiya said he was in either position 1, 2, or 3 in his cell for four months continuously
after he first arrived. After four months he was not shackled or handcuffed but was able to
move freely around his cell until he was moved to the second place of his detention in
154 Four of the men interviewed for this report, Mohammed al-Shoroeiya, Khalid al-Sharif, Majid al-Maghrebi, and Saleh Di’iki,
said that for most of the duration of their detention at the first site in Afghanistan they were held in one of the three positions
depicted here (referred to in this report as Positions 1, 2, and 3). They were held in these positions for varying amounts of
time ranging from multiple days to months. For more details regarding an individual detainee’s imprisonment refer to the
section of the report documenting his specific experience. These illustrations were drawn based on the testimony and reenactments
of the positions by the victims. One of victims, Khalid Sherif, was shown the three images and said they were
very accurate depictions.
155 Human Rights Watch interview with Sharif, March 14, 2012.
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