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Murat Kurnaz

    19 maart 1982

    Murat Kurnaz is een Turks staatsburger en legale inwoner van Duitsland. Hij werd vijf jaar lang onterecht vastgehouden in buitengerechtelijke detentie door de Verenigde Staten in Afghanistan en Cuba. Kurnaz werd tijdens zijn detentie herhaaldelijk gemarteld. Uiteindelijk werd hij vrijgelaten en keerde hij terug naar Duitsland.

    Dans l'enfer de Guantanamo
    Guantanamo, pie̜ć lat z mojego życia
    Five years of my life
    • Five years of my life

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      In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than 1,600 days, he was tortured and lived through hell. He was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. Finally, in August 2006, Kurnaz was released, with acknowledgment of his innocence. Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's story is both sobering and poignant--an important testimony about our turbulent times when innocent people get caught in the crossfire of the war on terrorism.

      Five years of my life