Abused by CIA 5 years
Saad Iqbal Madni is an Islamic scholar from Pakistan who spent five years in Guantanamo Bay. He was released in 2008 – he says without charge – but has been under house arrest in Lahore since then.
Under anti-terrorism legislation, all former suspects returning to Pakistan are automatically placed under restrictions when they return.
Saad’s ordeal began a few months after 9/11, during a visit to Indonesia.
He says he was bundled onto a plane in Jakarta in January 2002, and then flown to Egypt.
From there he was transferred to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, and moved again in March 2003 to Guantanamo Bay.
He claims he was humiliated, tortured, and abused every step of the way and abuse impossible to forget and he dosent even knows why, which never been explained or told by officals.
The CIA has declined to comment on his claims, and the US Defense Department has told us that detainees are treated legally and humanely, and torture has never been used in Guantanamo Bay.
BBC Correspondent Orla Guerin went to meet Saad to find out about his life in Lahore now, his years in prison, and to ask what he was doing in Indonesia. Pictures is from metro online and source – BBC
See the BBC program here http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2011/02/110225_outlook_guantanamo_madni.shtml
