20/12/2004 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Jamal al-Harith, a British muslim who spent two years detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay, told a PACE hearing on Friday how he was subjected to “systematic abuse" which he was informed amounts to torture under international law.
Addressing PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee in Paris, Mr al-Harith told parliamentarians how he was assaulted, “short shackled”, subjected to extremes of heat and cold and hosed down as well as being denied access to necessary medical care and harassed in practising his religion. Mr al-Harith says he has never engaged in any kind of terrorist behaviour.