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A Guantanamo detainee's drawings show the brutal CIA torture he endured at a secret US-run prison in Thailand

Dec 6, 2019, 03:43 IST

Zubaydah drew himself being waterboarded by CIA interrogators. He was tortured in this manner 83 times.

The detainee said he had his head repeatedly banged against the wall and was dragged with a towel around his neck, causing bleeding. He also said he was slapped in the face.

Here, Abu Zubaydah shows himself naked and forced into a stress position on his tip-toes.

Zubaydah drew himself shaved and shackled to a chair with a bucket underneath it and a bag over his head.

Zubaydah was subjected to sleep deprivation techniques that involved painful shackling and being doused with water.

He was forced into a small box and shackled in the fetal position.

Zubaydah says he was shackled and forced to sit on a bucket in a pitch dark box.

This image depicts Abu Zubaydah in another stress position, in this case with both his arms and legs shackled.

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