Muhammed, Ayub - short clip - spoon2
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(speaks in foreign language) | 0:01 | |
Interpreter | Usually the punishment comes to us | 0:06 |
when we resist some of the search methods, | 0:09 | |
like female guards come in, and when they search, | 0:15 | |
when they are taking us to the shower, | 0:19 | |
things like that, | 0:21 | |
they touch our private parts. | 0:22 | |
Although they could just search us without doing so. | 0:26 | |
And then when they do that, we shout and then we | 0:30 | |
bang the doors. | 0:34 | |
And then one time actually, when they were giving breakfast, | 0:36 | |
it's supposed to give the plate with the food. | 0:42 | |
And the guard gave him empty plate. | 0:45 | |
There's nothing. | 0:49 | |
Just empty plate. | 0:49 | |
And he said, "Where's my food?" | 0:51 | |
And the guard says, "This is for you. | 0:53 | |
"This is your food." | 0:56 | |
And so he just took the plate, | 0:58 | |
this empty plate, | 0:59 | |
there's nothing on it. | 1:00 | |
No plastic utensils or no food, nothing, just empty plate. | 1:01 | |
And he just sat there patiently, | 1:07 | |
he didn't have his breakfast, | 1:09 | |
everybody else is eating, and he just sat there. | 1:10 | |
And then after, | 1:12 | |
when they came back to pick up the trash, | 1:13 | |
he give the plate back, and the guard says, | 1:18 | |
"Where's the spoon?" | 1:22 | |
"Well, you didn't give me spoon, | 1:24 | |
"you just give me the plate." | 1:25 | |
He says, "No, I give you a spoon, give the spoon back." | 1:27 | |
And he says, "I don't have the spoon. | 1:30 | |
"You didn't give me a spoon." | 1:31 | |
And he wanted to search the cell and he didn't let him. | 1:32 | |
He says, "I'm not going to let you search | 1:36 | |
"because you didn't give me spoon." | 1:38 | |
And he called for the captain, | 1:40 | |
the person in charge or the translator. | 1:42 | |
He wanted to speak to them. | 1:45 | |
And then finally they came with the translator. | 1:47 | |
It was an elder gentleman. | 1:50 | |
That was the incident was after I left actually. | 1:52 | |
So the elder gentleman came in | 1:54 | |
and they translator tried to talk him | 1:56 | |
into let them search. | 1:59 | |
And he kept saying no. | 2:00 | |
"He didn't, the guard didn't give me food. | 2:01 | |
"The guard didn't give me food and the spoon. | 2:05 | |
"And now he's asking for spoon, he wants to search. | 2:07 | |
"I'm not going to let him." | 2:09 | |
And the translator try to talk him into letting them search. | 2:12 | |
He says, "If you don't, then they're going to beat you up | 2:15 | |
"and they're going to be harsh on you. | 2:18 | |
"So please just come out so they can search your block." | 2:20 | |
He says, "No I'm not going to come out." | 2:23 | |
And then they called probably 20, 30 guards | 2:25 | |
to come in forcefully get him up. | 2:30 | |
So he says, "I'm not coming out." | 2:32 | |
He was stubborn. | 2:33 | |
He went on his bed and lie down there. | 2:35 | |
He just lied on his bed. | 2:40 | |
And the person who's not resisting the fight | 2:42 | |
or he's lying quietly on the bed. | 2:45 | |
They came in and they sprayed him. | 2:48 | |
They spray the block with a gas. | 2:51 | |
And then sprayed him another. | 2:54 | |
And then he was getting nauseated with that. | 2:56 | |
And then he sprayed some chemical | 2:58 | |
on like a dish towel. | 3:02 | |
And then on the towel and put it on his face, | 3:05 | |
rubbing on his face, putting on his mouth. | 3:09 | |
And did they actually, the 20, 30 guards, | 3:12 | |
there was a psychologist. | 3:15 | |
And then the person in charge and translator, | 3:20 | |
everybody was there. | 3:24 | |
And then they beat him up | 3:25 | |
and they dragged him out of his cell block. | 3:28 | |
Got him all undressed, took all his clothes up. | 3:30 | |
He was only wearing underwear. | 3:34 | |
And then he was trying to spit on the guards | 3:36 | |
and he was trying to fight, but he's all shackled up. | 3:39 | |
They tied him up. | 3:41 | |
So many people around him | 3:43 | |
and that he was just fighting, trying. | 3:45 | |
He says, "I tried to spit. | 3:47 | |
"It's not going to reach them. | 3:48 | |
"But I was just fighting and spitting on people and stuff." | 3:49 | |
And the psychiatrist says, "He's, he's going crazy. | 3:52 | |
"He's, he's mentally, | 3:56 | |
"he's not stable. | 3:57 | |
"So we need to put him in the mental block." | 3:58 | |
The place that they keep all the people | 4:03 | |
who's mentally, having mental problems. | 4:06 | |
So they brought him to Delta, | 4:09 | |
which is a mental, | 4:11 | |
a place that they keep people with mental problems. | 4:14 | |
And then | 4:17 | |
when they brought him there | 4:19 | |
he was absolutely naked. | 4:20 | |
Then they took all his clothes, underwear, everything off. | 4:22 | |
There's no sheets, | 4:25 | |
no towels in the cell block, | 4:26 | |
just have the the isomat. | 4:28 | |
It's a thin piece of rubber mat. | 4:30 | |
I tried to put that around his private parts. | 4:34 | |
And then he was knocking the camera, asking them to come in. | 4:39 | |
To give him some clothes, | 4:45 | |
to give him underwear, he was cold. | 4:46 | |
And they wouldn't give him clothes and he couldn't sleep. | 4:48 | |
And then this Arab guy next to him; | 4:53 | |
give him an idea. | 4:57 | |
Taught him something. | 4:59 | |
He says, "If you try to create a big problem, | 4:59 | |
"then they will come and pay attention." | 5:03 | |
Because he was trying to call for the person in charge. | 5:04 | |
He wanted to talk to somebody, but nobody would come in. | 5:07 | |
They just left him there, nobody would come in, | 5:09 | |
speak to him. | 5:11 | |
Nobody would do anything. | 5:12 | |
And then the Arab guy says, "You try to kill yourself. | 5:13 | |
"You try to do something. | 5:17 | |
"Then they will come right away." | 5:18 | |
So he found something that he can try to hang himself. | 5:20 | |
So he put that up and he pretend like he was trying | 5:24 | |
to hang himself. | 5:28 | |
When they see that on camera, they showed up immediately. | 5:30 | |
They came in right away and then they | 5:33 | |
sprayed him again. | 5:38 | |
And then they give him shot and he was sort of passed out. | 5:39 | |
- | But I talk to them. | 5:44 |
(speaks in foreign language) | 5:46 |
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