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AP : Guantanamo detainees made to feel like 'nomads'

By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press Writer
June 27, 2008

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into "nomads" to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday.

Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official policy to destabilize them. "They were made into nomads," the Al-Jazeera journalist said.

28 Jun 2008

Libya: Arbitrary detention of Mr. Imed Al Chibani

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 21, 2008

21 Jun 2008

The journalist Sami El Haj in Geneva from June 24, 2008

The Al Jazeera journalist Sami El Haj will be in Geneva the week of June 24, 2008, at the invitation of the ALKARAMA Foundation for Human Rights for his first trip abroad since his release from Guantanamo on May 1, 2008.

Sami El Haj will be in Geneva to testify on his long years of arbitrary detention and torture he suffered on the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay where he was detained without charge or legal procedure for nearly seven long years.

20 Jun 2008