WaPo: Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantnamo detention

[Dennis Donovan]

WaPo - (archived: https://archive.ph/rYmVH) Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention

The men said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.

Today at 5:00 a.m.

By Silvia Foster-Frau and Ana Vanessa Herrero

He couldn’t tell when the days started and ended within the windowless, peeling yellow four walls of his prison cell in Guantánamo.

Diuvar Uzcátegui kept track of them by putting a small tear in the last, blank page of a Bible after every third meal. The book was given to him by the military guards along with a blanket and a ¾-inch foam pad to sleep on. He went to the bathroom in a bucket connected to a tap in the cell.

And though he couldn’t see his fellow detainees, he could hear them.

Some of the men screamed. Others threatened to kill themselves. One interviewed by The Washington Post said he attempted it.

During his two weeks at the Guantánamo Bay naval station, Uzcátegui, 27, said he was rarely let outside. Both times, he was shackled and placed in what he described as a cage. It was the only sight of the blue Cuban sky he got, so otherworldly it felt like a dream.

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[Ilsa]

1. Trump, et al, enjoy the cruelty. nt

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

And no one will be held accountable for any abuse because America lies each and every time it claims, "no one is above the law".

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Sounds like a good place for tRump and the South African nazi. Treatment they deserve.

[spanone]

4. America is now the 'bad guys'.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. We're the baddies now.

[ratchiweenie]

6. If you read the who thing it is vomit worthy. We are the Nazis now.

[Meowmee]

7. Horrific

The man interviewed said he wants to return here:

“ Despite this, he is convinced of one thing. He still wants a future in the United States.
“I like the United States. I want to return because I didn’t do anything bad, and I like that there’s laws there — that you can live safely,” he said. “I want to return, legally.“

[MadameButterfly]

8. My God, the holocaust has begun

Without oversight, some people will d their worst. We are seeing what the Trump regime is capable of. If he can do it to immigrants, who else is he willing to do that to?

This must get out. Thanks WaPo, but it needs to be everywhere.

[LeftInTX]

9. Diuvar Uzctegui is on Facebook. He is not a criminal or gangster.

He hates Maduro and is clean cut.