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06 July 2011

Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, savagely tortured

Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, a 29-year-old Saudi national, was arrested in October 2004 by American soldiers at the Syrian border at Al-Qa'im and immediately brought to a military barracks where he was detained for 15 days. He reports having been tied up for several days upside down with his feet and hands bound and being thrown on the ground to be exposed to the sun all day before being placed back in his cell. Interrogations during which he was severely beaten usually took place at night.

He was then transferred to another military barracks where he was in the hands of Iraqi soldiers. He was again threatened with death, made to simulate his own execution, submitted to waterboarding and shocked with electricity.

Several days later, he was transferred to Abu Ghraib prison where he remained detained for many days before having been brought to Baghdad airport. During the intervening 15 days he was placed in a room known as a "black box" where he was tortured by American soldiers: he was violently beaten, burned on several places on his body, and made to maintain "stress positions."

He was then returned to Abu Ghraib prison where he was kept for almost a year before being given access to any legal recourse. He was presented for the first time to a "judge" in October 2005 and condemned in an expedited trial to 15 years in prison.
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