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shelshaw

(535 posts)
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:15 AM Mar 2023

Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured

A former detainee of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has claimed that Florida governor and 2024 presidential contender Ron DeSantis witnessed him being tortured during the time he was stationed there.

Mansoor Adayfi, a Yemeni citizen who was held for 14 years on the US Naval base in Cuba, told The Independent in an extraordinary interview that he was brutally force-fed by camp staff during a hunger strike in 2006, and that Mr DeSantis was present for at least one of those sessions.

The United Nations has characterised the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay as torture. The US government has denied that the practice amounts to torture, and it has been used against prisoners over successive administrations during hunger strikes.

Mr DeSantis was stationed on the base between March 2006 and January 2007, according to his military records.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-guantanamo-torture-prisoner-b2300753.html
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Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured (Original Post) shelshaw Mar 2023 OP
I'm sure that's not all he did. He's a disgusting sadist, perfect Republican candidate Walleye Mar 2023 #1
This needs to be more widely known. 2naSalit Mar 2023 #2
I read in a prior post that DeSatan was smiling as he watched judesedit Mar 2023 #3
This will only help him with the Repuke base. lapfog_1 Mar 2023 #4
Between enjoying torture sessions and testing urine, JAG DeSantis sounds busy. Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #5
Look what he is doing to Florida........ Lovie777 Mar 2023 #6
MAGAs will love this story. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Mar 2023 #8

Kid Berwyn

(14,964 posts)
5. Between enjoying torture sessions and testing urine, JAG DeSantis sounds busy.
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:54 AM
Mar 2023

Sounds like he’s qualified to prosecute ex-President Golden Showers.

Lovie777

(12,329 posts)
6. Look what he is doing to Florida........
Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:56 AM
Mar 2023

like other red states, seems they enjoy watching their contingents go through torture from all the fucked laws they are installing because their gawd say it's ok.

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