"I learned it in Guantanamo, when the only thing I could control was my own body. We were disappeared. Isolated. Forced into silence. Our words were redacted. Our letters were stamped secret. Lawyers were blocked. Time stretched and rotted. No court dates were given. No real charges were made. I was reduced to a number in an orange uniform, locked in a metal cage."
"And torture came. Day and night. Relentless. Mechanical. Meant to break the mind first, then the body. So I stopped eating. Not as a gesture. Not as a plea. I stopped because everything else had been taken from me. My body was the only territory this foreign state hadn't yet occupied. A hunger strike is not symbolic. It is not dramatic. That's a lie sold by the media, by people who have never watched a body collapse from the inside,"
Detained individuals were disappeared and isolated, their words redacted and letters stamped secret, while lawyers were blocked and time stretched without court dates or real charges. Prisoners were reduced to numbers in orange uniforms and labeled terrorists to justify torture. Torture was relentless and mechanical, aimed to break minds before bodies. Some prisoners protested by refusing food because their bodies remained the only territory they controlled. Hunger strikes caused progressive organ failure, muscle wasting, vision loss and a slow death. At least eight pro-Palestine activists in the UK have refused food, with some exceeding fifty days and several hospitalized.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]