Cuba, – A prisoner at Guantanamo says the prison’s guards are still using harsh sleep deprivation techniques by forcing detainees to stay awake at nights.
Shaker Aamer told The Guardian that guards slam doors up to 300 times a night to keep inmates awake, saying that one guard had told him that he was following orders.
"He admitted to me: 'It's my orders to keep going up and down all night tonight'. They crashed the doors maybe 250 to 300 times in the night, keeping us awake, and continued until around 9am - then quiet."
Accoding to Press Tv over 130 of the 166 Guantanamo prisoners are on their fifth month of hunger strike, protesting their conditions.
A hunger striker at the prison has said that American officials are using increasingly brutal tactics to break up the strike.
Force-feeding is supposedly intended to prevent prisoners from starving to death. However, human rights groups have condemned the practice as a form of torture.
“It's baffling that the U.S. military is trying so hard to crush the hunger strike, when it could end it tomorrow by transferring cleared prisoners”, Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, said.
Aamer also explained how he had kept his Qur'an in a plastic bag for more than three years to protect it from dirt. However, he said that officials had told him that he had to hand back the plastic bag.
“I told them I can't keep my Qur'an without protecting it from MPs [military guards] and other damage, so they must, if they had to, take both the bag and the Qur'an.”
“In the end they refused to let me have the bag and I had to give up my Qur'an. So they called the Muslim translator and took the Qur'an from me. That was the end of another day in this terrible place,” he said.
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