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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer 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.
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
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I'm sure that's not all he did. He's a disgusting sadist, perfect Republican candidate
Walleye
Mar 2023
#1
Between enjoying torture sessions and testing urine, JAG DeSantis sounds busy.
Kid Berwyn
Mar 2023
#5
Walleye
(31,056 posts)1. I'm sure that's not all he did. He's a disgusting sadist, perfect Republican candidate
2naSalit
(86,791 posts)2. This needs to be more widely known.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)3. I read in a prior post that DeSatan was smiling as he watched
Sick bastard
lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)4. This will only help him with the Repuke base.
Kid Berwyn
(14,964 posts)5. Between enjoying torture sessions and testing urine, JAG DeSantis sounds busy.
Sounds like hes qualified to prosecute ex-President Golden Showers.
Lovie777
(12,329 posts)6. Look what he is doing to Florida........
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.
Irish_Dem
(47,421 posts)7. MAGAs will love this story.
Probably will get DeSatan more votes.
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