The four British detainees released this week from Guantanamo Bay have returned home to their families. They have told their attorneys they were victims of 'systematic torture.' Attorney Clive Stafford Smith said his client Moazzam Begg suffered persistent beatings, death threats and psychological torture first at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, then at the Cuba base. Another attorney for Begg said her client has changed greatly over the past four years. Gareth Pierce said “I see starkly the physical difference in him _ his face is the face of someone who has been through a severe ordeal. He looks like he has been to hell and back.” The four men freed from Guanatanamo were initially detained by British police but released after one night. The men are now suing the U.S. for tens of millions of dollars.
Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Report 'Systematic Torture'
HeadlineJan 27, 2005