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![Dressed in bright orange coveralls, al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners wash before midday prayers at Camp X-Ray, where they are being held, at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [Photo credit should read J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-136443855.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The case of Saeed Bakhouche’s disappearance in Algeria proves that leaving Guantanamo doesn’t mean the end of the torture. For many of us, it is simply the next step to the same fate or something worse -
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It was 21 years ago this month that I was flown in the belly of a US cargo plane, hooded, blindfolded, gagged and chained in an orange jumpsuit, for... -
Held in the infamous torture prison for 14 years, Mansoor Adayfi says his experience is nothing like the sanitised images released from the camp by the US
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After 20 years of torture and indefinite and arbitrary detention, former Guantanamo detainee Abdulqadir Al-Madhfari was transferred to Yemen from his cell in a United Arab Emirates (UAE) prison....