A prisoner’s first official report of harassment in a CIA detention center.
For the first time, a CIA detainee formally described the harassment he endured in the organization’s detention facilities.
Majid Khan, a Pakistani-American citizen, appeared in military court for the first time to formally explain the experience of persecution in notorious CIA detention centers.
According to the New York Times, Majid Khan, who lived on the outskirts of Baltimore before joining the al-Qaeda terrorist group, told a military jury on Thursday that he was held in the notorious CIA prisons between 2003 and 2006. CIA) suffered torture, including artificial drowning and other physical and sexual abuse, and brutal forced eating.
Majid Khan is the first former CIA prisoner to speak out in public about the “advanced interrogation techniques” used to obtain his confession.
About two hours into the court hearing, he said, he lived in a dungeon-like area, naked, with only a bag over his head, and sometimes chained with his hands so that he could not sleep.
Majid Khan also described a form of torture in which he was kept half drowned in very cold water. In this case, two pipes were connected to his nose and mouth, and after the interrogator counted from ten to one, water entered his mouth and nose.
The former Guantanamo detainee told the court that shortly after his arrest in Pakistan in 2003, he confessed to everything he knew and that the detainees had full cooperation in the hope that he would be released, but that “instead, “I cooperated and was tortured more.”
Majid Khan is likely to be sentenced in court today (Friday) to 25 to 40 years in prison, part of which he has served since 2012. However, according to the military commission, the sentence is symbolic and may result in a reduced sentence for cooperating with the government.
According to the jury, Majid Khan was charged in 2012 with terrorism charges including attempted murder in violation of martial law, delivering $ 50,000 to al-Qaeda that was used to carry out a terrorist attack at the Marriott Hotel, and complicity with Khalid. Sheikh Mohammad, one of the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks, was confronted.
Although Majid Khan’s shocking remarks were made in court for the first time yesterday (Thursday), all 39 pages he read on paper were carefully reviewed rather than by CIA agents or agents and intelligence agencies of other countries in his secret detention. In the black detention centers, these organizations were involved in not naming.
However, this is the first place where Majid Khan has been able to speak through the legal maze of ill-treatment and torture in CIA detention centers.
“I was beaten many times and when he was transferred from one cell to another, he was hit on the ground, walls and stairs,” he said.
Majid Khan said that during his air transfer from one prison to another, a paramedic tied him with a diaper and a catheter so that he would not waste time between flights when he went to the bathroom. According to him, when he was detained in a Muslim country, interrogators also allowed him to pray, but when he was in the possession of the Americans, he was not allowed to do so.
Earlier, Majid Khan’s lawyers said he was so insomniac that he was delusional. He himself said that while he was hanging from the ceiling with his hands tied, he saw a cow and a huge lizard in his cell and tried to kick them away.
Majid Khan’s name was first heard in 2014 after a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into CIA programs. According to the report, following Majid Khan’s refusal to eat, officers injected him with nymphs anal. The CIA claims that the name of this method is anal reabsorption, but Majid Khan has described it as rape.
Referring to the use of a similar method for prisoners who refused to drink water, Majid Khan said that officers used garden hoses to inject water into his intestines and that he still suffers from complications such as hemorrhoids.
