Gharani lives in a group housing compound with other detainees who have been cleared for release, where they are subject to fewer restrictions than most of the 240 Guantanamo captives and allowed weekly phonecalls.
He told al Jazeera he had been beaten with batons and teargassed by a group of six soldiers wearing protective gear and helmets after refusing to leave his cell.
"This treatment started about 20 days before Obama came into power, and since then I've been subjected to it almost every day," he told Al Jazeera.
"Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change."
The US military has said detainees are treated humanely.
A spokesman at Guantanamo, Lieutenant Commander Brook DeWalt, said some of those cleared for release were allowed weekly telephone calls to relatives, but did not know whether Gharani had dialed the call himself, which would have violated policy.
Another government official who asked not to be identified said Gharani phoned al Jazeera under the guise of calling an uncle. He did not know how Gharani obtained the television network's phone number.
Gharani was captured in Pakistan in late 2001 and taken to Guantanamo Bay in early 2002. The U.S. government said the then-14-year-old had stayed at an al Qaeda-affiliated guest house in Afghanistan, fought in the battle of Tora Bora in 2001, served as a courier for senior al Qaeda operatives and was part of a London-based al Qaeda cell.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5156015/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-calls-al-Jazeera-from-prison.htmlSomething just seems a bit "off" about this story to me.
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