How I fought to survive Guantánamo 5.0 star rating

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/21/i-fought-to-survive-guantanamo

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It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool sen­sation of fingers being stabbed deep into his eyeballs. He had joined other prisoners in protesting against a new humiliation – inmates ­being forced to take off their trousers and walk round in their pants – and a group of guards had entered his cell to punish him. He was held down and bound with chains.

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