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nose so I had the feeling that I was drowning. I couldn’t breathe.… I tried to turn my head left and right as much as I could to take in some gulps of breath. I felt as if I was suffocating. 177 When asked how often this happened, he said he could not be sure about the number of times or how long the sessions lasted: “I really can’t be sure about the numbers. I spent three months getting interrogated heavily during the first period and they gave me a different type of torture every day. Sometimes they used water, sometimes not.… Sometimes they stripped me naked and sometimes they left me clothed.” 178 Sharif said a male doctor was present during the sessions with water. He could feel him putting his hands on his upper arms while he was undergoing this treatment, as if he were measuring his body temperature. He would then tell others in the room to either continue with the treatment or stop. 179 Sharif also said that the cast he had on his leg due to his broken foot became soft as a result of this water treatment, so the doctor put another type of cast on him that had three sides that could be removed. They would take off his leg cast before the sessions with water and then put it back on afterwards, binding it with mesh. 180 Wooden Box Shoroeiya described the use of a small wooden box, about 1 x 1 meter in size, with a lock on it and small holes on the sides. A number of times his American interrogators would threaten to lock him in the box. He said that he was only actually put in there on one occasion which lasted for an hour or more. 181 While in the box, they prodded him with long thin objects through the holes on the side of the box. 182 177Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Sharif, May 24, 2012. 178 Ibid. 179 Sharif understands some English. 180 Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Sharif, May 24, 2012. 181 The use of “cramped confinement” was another technique on the list of EITs the CIA requested permission to use and that the Department of Justice approved on August 1, 2002. The CIA’s request to use this technique described it in the following manner: “The subject is placed in a confined space, typically a small or large box, which is usually dark. Confinement in the smaller space lasts no more than two hours and in the larger space up to 18 hours.” See DOJ OPR Report, July 29, 2009, p. 35- 36. See also “Memorandum for John Rizzo,” p. 13-15, 18, approving the technique for Zubaydah, 51 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2012
Mohammed Shoroeiya said his interrogators would sometimes threaten to lock him in a small wooden box, such as the one drawn by him above, and once did lock him in the box. © 2012 Mohammed Shoroeiya Sharif said he was threatened with use of a box that fit the same description, but they never actually put him inside. He told Human Rights Watch, “Then he [the interrogator] brought me a small box. They said, ‘We are going to push you into this box and we will close it. That’s what’s going to happen to you if you don’t talk and tell us everything. We will squeeze you until you fit inside this box.’” 183 Wooden Wall Both Shoroeiya and Sharif said they at times were taken to a room that had a wooden wall and Americans beat them against it. Sharif said, “They had a ring covered with foam that they would put around my neck and then they would push me against the wall. They were also slapping and punching my face and torso.” Sharif explained that his back was to the wooden wall when he was being pushed into it. 184 Sharif said that the Americans warned him that unless he was more cooperative, they would strap him to a table (pointing to a steel one that was in the room), turn him upside down and leave him like that until he died. http://media.luxmedia.com/aclu/olc_08012002_bybee.pdf (accessed August 26, 2012), p. 18. See also DOJ OPR Report reference to a “classified Bybee memo” also approving the technique on pages 1-2, DOJ OPR Report, July 29, 2009, p. 68. 182 Human Rights Watch interview with Shoroeiya, March 18, 2012. 183 Human Rights Watch interview with Sharif, March 14, 2012. 184 “Walling” was another of the 12 EITs the CIA asked permission to use on detainees and the Justice Department approved. The request for its use was described in the following manner: “the subject is pulled forward and then quickly and firmly pushed into a flexible false wall so that his shoulder blades hit the wall. His head and neck are supported with a rolled towel to prevent whiplash.” DOJ OPR Report, July 29, 2009, p. 35-36; See also “Memorandum for John Rizzo,” p. 11. DELIVERED INTO ENEMY HANDS 52
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Sami Mostefa al-Saadi © 2012 Human
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making harsh statements against the
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complicity in his transfer back to
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Abu Farsan spent the next decade at
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government. After 1992, when the go
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Acknowledgments This report was wri
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