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Khaled El-Masri was subjected to Extraordinary rendition by the @cia. El-Masri was beaten, stripped naked, deprived of food and water and sodomized at the CIA run Salt Pit. #Assange @wikileaks #torture https://twitter.com/deacampaign/status/1306179599584374785
When the @cia realised they took the wrong man (& tortured the wrong man), they dumped him on a desolate road in Albania @wikileaks #torture #AssangeTrial #BlackSites
Gina Haspel oversaw the Salt Pit #BlackSite where El-Masri was unlawfully held and tortured. Haspel now is the Director of the CIA. #Assange #AssangeTrial https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2018_10_17_iachr_el_masri_observations_-_final_signed.pdf @wikileaks @kgosztola @couragefound
El-Masri: “I was handcuffed, blindfolded, and placed in a car. The car eventually stopped and I heard airplanes. I was led to a building where I was severely beaten by people's fists and what felt like a thick stick.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”Someone sliced the clothes off my body..I was beaten again until someone forcibly removed [underwear] from me. I was thrown on the floor,hands pulled behind me, and someone's boot was placed on my back. Then I felt something firm being forced inside my anus.” #Assange
El-Masri:”I was dragged across the floor and my blindfold was removed. I saw seven or eight men dressed in black and wearing black ski masks. One of the men placed me in a diaper and a track suit.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”I was put in a belt with chains that attached to my wrists and ankles, earmuffs were placed over my ears, eye pads over my eyes, and then I was blindfolded and hooded.” #AssangeTrial #torture
El-Masri:”After being marched to a plane, I was thrown to the floor face down and my legs and arms were spread-eagled and secured to the sides of the plane. I felt two injections, and I was rendered nearly unconscious.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”At some point, I felt the plane land and take off again. When it landed again, I was unchained and taken off the plane. It felt very warm outside, and so I knew I had not been returned to Germany. I learned later that I was in Afghanistan.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”I was dragged out of the car, pushed roughly into a building, thrown to the floor, and kicked and beaten on the head, the soles of my feet, &the small of my back. I was left in a small, dirty, cold concrete cell. #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”There was no bed and one dirty, military-style blanket and some old, torn clothes bundled into a thin pillow. I was extremely thirsty, but there was only a bottle of putrid water in cell.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”I was interrogated by six or eight men dressed in the same black clothing and ski masks, as well as a masked American doctor. They stripped me of my clothes, photographed me, and took blood and urine samples. #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”I was returned to my cell, where I would remain in solitary confinement, with no reading or writing materials, and without once being permitted outside to breathe fresh air, for more than four months.” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”The man who interrogated me threatened me, insulted me, & shoved me... After 27 days without food, I was allowed to meet with 2unmasked Americans, 1 of whom was the prison director and the 2nd an even higher official whom other inmates referred to as “the Boss.” #Assange
El-Masri:”I pleaded with them to either release me or bring me to court..On day 37 of my hunger strike I was dragged into an interrogation room, tied to a chair, & a feeding tube was forced through my nose to my stomach.“ #Assange
El-Masri:”After the force-feeding, I became extremely ill and suffered the worst pain of my life... On May 28, I was led out of my cell, blindfolded and handcuffed. I was put on a plane and chained to the seat.” #Assange #torture
El-Masri:”I believed I would be executed..When the plane landed, I was placed in a car, still blindfolded, &driven up and down mountains for hours. Eventually, I was removed from the car and my blindfold removed. #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”My captors gave me my passport and belongings, sliced off my handcuffs, and told me to walk down a dark, deserted road and not to look back.. I believed I would be shot in the back and left to die” #AssangeTrial
El-Masri:”when I turned the bend, there were armed men who asked me why I was in Albania and took my passport. The Albanians took me to the airport” #AssangeCase
Full statement of Khalid El-Masri https://www.aclu.org/other/statement-khaled-el-masri #torture #AssangeTrial #Assange
