Former prisoners: no hope at Gitmo

From the AP:

Three British youths formerly detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay and now the subjects of a new film about their experiences say they were driven to desperation knowing others had tried to kill themselves at the camp.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Shafiq Rasul and his two friends—Ruhal Ahmed and Asif Iqbal—describe how they were held at Guantanamo for more than two years without charge. Many of the some 460 detainees accused of links to Afghanistan’s Taliban regime or the al-Qaeda terror network have been held for more than four years without charge.

“There is no hope in Guantanamo. The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself,” Rasul, 29, who waged a hunger strike at the camp to protest beatings, said Saturday. “It is the despair—not the thought of martyrdom—that consumes you there.”

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