Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hanging

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-	And they brought me to an interrogation room.	0:00
	There's an escort team.	0:02
	They they're working for those people	0:04
	who's going to an interrogation.	0:07
	I'm coming back.	0:09
	So they picked me up, brought me in a tent.	0:10
	I had to sit on the floor	0:12
	and I was shackled my hands from my back.	0:17
	And they came up with something.	0:22
	I didn't saw it before.	0:27
	It was the first time I saw it.	0:29
	It's like a box, like, like a ACO.	0:31
	It's like a battery.	0:37
Interviewer	Oh, battery?	0:38
-	It's something like a battery.	0:39
	And there was two things.	0:41
	You can, it's like	0:46
	it's looks like, like those ones that the doctor is using	0:49
	for people whose heart not working anymore.	0:53
	Yeah, I don't know.	0:58
	It's called something like	0:59
	electro shock.	1:03
Interviewer	Mm hmm, right.	1:04
-	What the doctor one use.	1:05
Interviewer	Mm hmm.	1:06
-	Yeah. It's looks very, it's looked very similar.	1:07
	It was just little bit old I guess.	1:10
	So, they used on my feet.	1:13
	They, they use it on my feet	1:15
	so they put it on my, on my toe, toes.	1:18
Interviewer	Right.	1:22
-	Yeah.	1:24
	And no, of course if they use electro shocks on you,	1:25
	you can't talk.	1:30
	And they, they didn't ask me if I will sign or not.	1:30
	They said just, "Do you like it?"	1:36
	"Is it good like that?"	1:39
	They just keep doing it and I couldn't say anything.	1:40
	After then, after then they brought me just back.	1:46
	Next day they asked me if I'm going to sign or not.	1:49
	And if not,	1:53
	they will continue to try everything to make me sign.	1:54
	And I said, I will not sign.	2:01
	They after then afterwards they out me in a hangar.	2:07
	It's, they hang me on chains.	2:11
	By my hand, I had, I had handcuffs on my hands	2:16
	and those handcuffs, they wrap it with the chain	2:21
	and pull me on the ceiling by those chains.	2:24
	They wanted my feets to hang over the floor.	2:28
	And I had also had, I had also shackles on my legs.	2:31
	So all my body used to hang on the over the floor	2:38
	and they did it.	2:42
	The doctor came a couple of hours later.	2:48
	The doctor came and when he, when the doctor came	2:50
	they pulled me back down.	2:53
	He checked my eyes and he checked my thing.	2:54
	I mean, see, he looked, if everything is okay, if	2:57
	if I can survive.	3:01
	If I can survive more on what?	3:02
	And if he said, okay, then they put me just like up.	3:07
	And he said, every time, okay.	3:11
	He came and he checked my eyes	3:13
	and everything after then he said, okay	3:16
	they put me back up.	3:19
	And the doctor came twice.	3:20
	Like twice a day and to interrogate us	3:23
	so he came twice a day.	3:26
Interviewer	Did they talk to you while you were hanging?	3:27
	Or did they just let you hang?	3:31
-	When the interrogator came, they put me back down	3:32
	and he asked me if I will sign or not.	3:35
	If I will sign, they said they will stop it.	3:40
	And the	3:43
	the last, the last,	3:47
	the last couple of days	3:50
	I can't remember why because I start to pass out.	3:52
Interviewer	From hanging?	3:56
-	Yeah from hanging and it's not just a hanging,	3:57
	it's also, it's also very cold.	4:00
	It was during winter time.	4:02
	It was short after Christmas.	4:05
	It was very cold.	4:08
	And in Afghanistan, that place Kandahar it's very cold.	4:09
	Yeah. I guess it was like a 10 under zero.	4:15
-	It's a Fahrenheit.	4:24
Interviewer	What were you wearing?	4:26
-	I had just shorts.	4:29
	I had just shorts.	4:31
	That is	4:32
	after then.	4:35
	He asked me if I will sign or not.	4:37
	If every time I said no, he said, just put them back up.	4:39
	And it was the same thing, like three, the first three days.	4:43
	I could remember what, just the last two days	4:48
	I can't remember.	4:50
	After, after they brought me back	4:51
	I asked the other prisoners,	4:53
	how long am I did stay away?	4:56
	They told me it was five days.	4:59
Interviewer	Was it 24 hours?	5:02

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Title:

Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hanging

Date:

August 19, 2009

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Kurnaz, Murat

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9TU-000061DP
Murat Kurnaz, male 27, age, Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, was detained in Guantanamo from February 13, 2002 until August 24, 2006, when he was released to Germany.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:13:42

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Witness to Guantanamo

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