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“We were locked to the floor like animals. You could walk around but your legs were still chained.” time, they both said, they were not handcuffed to a round steel ring connected to a wall but to a long chain that was connected to the floor of their cell. 201 “We were locked to the floor like animals. You could walk around but your legs were still chained.” 202 Sharif said he had a toilet and a basin as well as a mattress in his cell. 203 He also said there was a very loud noise, like the sound of a turbine, going on all the time. “When the door to your cell opened, you could hear it very loudly but if your door was kept closed, you couldn’t hear it as well,” Sharif said. “It kept us from being able to speak to each other.” 204 Loud music was also played at times, but it was not continuous like it was in the other location, Sharif said. In this location, both Shoroeiya and Sharif said there was not the same kind of physical abuse there was in the other location. It was more just isolation, restraint, use of music and noise, and continuous interrogation. Sharif told Human Rights Watch, The whole period of my detention they were interrogating me. I can’t remember a time I spent more than two days without interrogation. They brought me photos of people from all over the world, photographed in other countries, and they would ask, “Do you know this guy, do you recognize him?” When I would say no, they were astonished. They would say: “How come you don’t know this guy? He was in Pakistan, how come you don’t know him?” 205 201 Human Rights Watch interviews with Sharif, March 14, 2012; and Shoroeiya, March 18, 2012. Bashmilah also said he was chained by the ankle to his cell floor during the first three to four weeks at the new facility. Bashmilah Declaration, para. 99. 202 Human Rights Watch interview with Sharif, March 14, 2012. 203 Ibid. Shoroeiya did not specify whether he had the same. 204 Ibid. Jabour offered a similar description: “Besides the music, there was also a constant, low-level, white noise.… It sounded like a generator.” Human Rights Watch, Ghost Prisoner, p 16. 205 Human Rights Watch interview with Sharif, March 14. 55 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2012
Shoroeiya said there were intrusive searches and rough treatment, but it was more psychological abuse—not treatment with instruments as in the first location. The American interrogators here were in civilian clothes, not masked and not wearing black. 206 The guards were Afghans and, like the guards at the prior location, wore all black uniforms and facemasks. According to Shoroeiya, however, the guards at the second location looked “neater” and were not the same guards as at the first location. 207 Shoroeiya’s Transfer and Treatment in Libya Shoroeiya was sent back to Libya on August 22, 2004. He was threatened many times with being sent back to Libya, but on the day it happened they did not let him know where he was being taken. 208 After he arrived, Shoroeiya was housed in several different prisons, including Tajoura, al Nasser bureau, Sikka, Ajn Zara, and finally Abu Salim, where he was taken in 2006. Initially he was not mistreated. He said that foreign intelligence chief Musa Kusa personally told him upon arrival that there was some kind of agreement with the United States not to mistreat those who were transferred back to Libya with US assistance. Though he was not abused personally, he heard and saw other prisoners (who had not been sent back with US assistance), being abused. After about six months he too was abused, he said. In addition to long periods of solitary confinement, the guards punched him and beat him with sticks, steel pipes, and electrical cables that were used as a whip. He was bloodied and bruised, but the abuse never resulted in broken or fractured bones. The physical abuse was sporadic and mostly occurred in one prison on Sikka Road. Conditions improved once he got to Abu Salim prison sometime around 2006. 206 Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Shoroeiya, May 8, 2012. 207 Ibid. 208 Ibid. 209 Human Rights Watch interview with Shoroeiya, Tripoli, Libya, March 18, 2012. DELIVERED INTO ENEMY HANDS 56 “I didn’t realize I was back in Libya until I actually arrived in Tripoli,” he said. “It was a horrifying feeling. It was terrible.… We knew that Gaddafi had been treating people, especially from our group, in a very bad way.” 209
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H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Del
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Mustafa Jawda al-Mehdi ............
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This report is based mostly on Huma
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denied permission for the Libyan ai
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Saadi said he was held without char
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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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They noted in the fax that they und
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On June 7, 2006, Abu Farsan was tra
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Safrani in Afghanistan, said that t
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V. The Case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Lib
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2004, al-Libi recanted the informat
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held until December 2006, when the
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It is not clear when Ibn al-Sheikh
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Mostafa al-Mehdi (see above) saw al
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VI. Detainees Rendered From Other A
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appointed a lawyer who he said did
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In early 2008 he was charged with b
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government. After 1992, when the go
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governments during the Gaddafi gove
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conflict or emergency, may “opt o
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them to Libya in violation of their
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each country to which the agency de
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shelving the Gibson Inquiry and wou
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To the US Congress • Create an in
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To the Government of the Netherland
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Acknowledgments This report was wri
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Recreation of Document 2144 SUBJECT
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