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Out of mind.

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From interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch researchers in Pakistan and Vivian White, a reporter for the BBC, with recently released prisoners of Camp X-Ray, the United States detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In recent months, several U.S. officials have admitted anonymously that investigators use sleep deprivation as an interrogation technique and that detainees are often forced to spend long periods of time in painful positions. In December 2002, U.S. military doctors ruled the deaths of two Afghans in U.S. custody at Bagram air base homicides. The United States currently is holding about 650 suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

ALIF KHAN

They put cuffs and tape on my hands, taped my eyes, and taped my ears. They gagged me. They put chains on my legs and chains around my belly. They injected me. I was unconscious. I don't know how they transported me. When I arrived in Cuba they put me on a bed with wheels. We went to a big prison, and there were cages there. They built it like a zoo.

Each container housed forty-eight cages. Everyone was in his own cage. There was room to sit but not enough to pray. My joints were damaged. The light was very bright, and it was on all the time.

We were not allowed to speak to the people in other blocks. If we talked to them, the guards would take our bedding and blankets, and they wouldn't give them back for three days. We would just have our towels to sit on. They interrogated me two or three times a day. The chains were on me all the time. They would put a hood on my face and tape my...