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</a>Guantanamo inmate released in chains<br><br>
Friday 25 August 2006 3:01 PM GMT <br><br>
<b>A Turkish man with German residency, who was held at Guantanamo Bay
detention centre for four years, was kept blidfolded and in chains on his
flight home to Germany.<br><br>
</b></font><font size=2>Bernhard Docke, the released man's lawyer, said:
"The Americans are incorrigible, they have not learned a thing. He
was returned home in chains, humiliated and dishonoured to the very end
by the Americans, <br><br>
"It was a giant American transport aircraft and he was alone in it
with 15 US soldiers. He was chained down, his feet were chained, and his
eyes covered."<br><br>
Murat Kurnaz was not able to attend a news conference in his home town of
Bremem on Friday because he was still suffering from the effects of his
detention at Gunatanamo on Cuba. <br><br>
Kurnaz was still living "in a sort of netherworld" after his
ordeal. "Give him time. Yesterday was an extremely difficult day for
him," Docke said.<br><br>
"He was tortured. We just found out yesterday that for nine months
he was kept permanently under a bright light round the clock. This light
was never switched off," he said at a news conference broadcast live
on national television.<br><br>
Kurnaz said he suffered abuse at Guantanamo, and interrogation techniques
including sexual humiliation, water torture and desecration of
Islam.<br><br>
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, said that an
agreement on the release of Kurnaz had come after long negotiations
between the US and German governments.<br><br>
The US has been criticised by human rights groups and some of its allies
for holding about 450 foreign terrorist suspects at the naval base in
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charge.<br><br>
<b>Reuters<br><br>
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