Afghan detainee claims abuse at Guantánamo

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Source: miami herald

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- An Afghan detainee interrupted the testimony Thursday of a Harvard sleep disorder expert to describe first-hand a controversial Guantánamo sleep deprivation regime called the ``Frequent Flyer Program.''

''Give me time to talk about my sleeplessness,'' sputtered Afghan captive Mohammed Jawad, about 23, before he practically rushed the war court witness stand soon after his military judge ordered his ankles unshackled.

It was the first military commissions testimony claiming abuse directly from the lips of a war-on-terror detainee.

For two weeks in May 2004, according to prison camp records released in the commissions, guards made the young captive change prison camp cells 112 times, shackling and shuffling him every two to four hours.

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''Day and night they were shifting me from one place to another,'' Jawad said through a Pashto translator. ``Nobody answered why they were giving me this punishment.''

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