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Home > Freedom to Write > Restoring Rights > Accounts

THE EVIDENCE: FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS

The U.S. Senate has acknowledged that the U.S. has engaged in torture. These links point toward the mounting body of evidence.

 ACCOUNTS DOCUMENTS INVESTIGATIONS HEARINGS LAWS
Books

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
By Moazzam Begg
New Press, 2007

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
By Murat Kurnaz
Palgrave MacMillan, 2008

The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al-Qaeda
By Chris Mackey and Greg Miller
Little, Brown and Company, 2004

Letters from Abu Ghraib
By Joshua Casteel
Essay Press, 2008

Articles

“I’m Home, but Still Haunted by Guantanamo”
By Jumah al-Dossari
The Washington Post
August 17, 2008
Permalink

“A voice from Gitmo's darkness: A current detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has experienced at Guantanamo since 2002”
By Jumah al-Dossari
The Los Angeles Times
January 11, 2007
Permalink

Excerpts from the Diary of a Victim of Extraordinary Rendition
By Benyam Mohammed
The Guardian
August 2, 2005
Permalink

Other

Rendition to Torture: The Case of Maher Arar
Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary
October 18, 2007
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Winter Soldier Testimony

Iraq Veterans Against the War
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