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Loud music was blaring constantly. He could touch the floor, but his legs became very
swollen while restrained in this position. He said he started having delusions; once he was
sure he saw his wife and one of his children in front of him. Sometimes the interrogations
that took place during these 15 days were conducted in front of a woman while Maghrebi
was naked. They would take his diaper off for these interrogations. The day they released
him from detention in this room, they brought him to the showers, chained one arm to the
wall and told him to shower. They were watching him, but he could not move his arms to
bathe so they had to bathe him.
He said that his next cell was completely dark. He was handcuffed to a steel ring low to the
ground, sometimes by one arm so the other arm and both legs were free; sometimes by
both arms but legs shackled together; and at times with both arms and legs handcuffed
together on the same steel ring. These are the same positions that Shoroeiya and Sharif
described being detained in. (See illustrations and descriptions above). Sometimes they
would take him to another room and shackle his hands and feet together to the bottom of
the table and keep him there for hours. Towards the end of his time in this cell, he was
permitted to walk around freely in his cell but with his arms handcuffed and his feet
shackled together.
While he was detained, his captors brought him unclean water, for prayers and drinking.
“We could see inside the bottles, there was this green fungus,” he said. “Sometimes there
would be bugs in my food. Once when this happened it made me cry.”
After one and a half to two months in this third cell, they moved him to a different place.
They used the same transfer procedures as they had utilized when transporting him to the
first site. 222
should not be afraid because this treatment was just for people who did not cooperate. They told me that they had a way of
dealing with people who did not cooperate. I concluded that it was ‘Kojak’ who was so harshly interrogating Adnan al-Libi,
because when he came into my cell he would be wearing surgical gloves.” Bashmilah Declaration, para. 70. Maqtari said
Adnan al-Libi (Maghrebi) spoke to him when he first arrived, trying to encourage the new detainee to speak. Maqtari was
later was moved to the cell adjacent to Maghrebi’s. Amnesty International, A Case to Answer, p. 19-20.
222 See text box, “CIA Rendition Transportation Procedures,” above.
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