Ahmed, Ruhal - short clip - WitnessingAttemptedSuicide
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- | There was one guy who was extremely | 0:00 |
repressed, you could say. | 0:03 | |
He was a Saudi national. | 0:05 | |
He was right in front of me and a very large guy. | 0:06 | |
And he's always on antidepressants that promote - that is, | 0:10 | |
He was not there I think. Mentally. | 0:13 | |
Unless he was just acting. Um. | 0:15 | |
And just one day he was praying. | 0:18 | |
And he was like, (chuckles) "nobody's praying." | 0:20 | |
And I was, I was washing up with everyone just | 0:22 | |
started praying. I was behind. | 0:24 | |
And I looked over and all I could see | 0:26 | |
him do something with his bed sheet | 0:28 | |
and I looked over carefully | 0:30 | |
and I thought "What's he doing? | 0:31 | |
And I thought, it kind of like got me. | 0:33 | |
You know. I thought "what is he doing?" | 0:34 | |
And I was watching and watching and watching and | 0:36 | |
Eventually he starts ripping the sheet. | 0:37 | |
Cause obviously the sheet, it's not like too thick | 0:39 | |
to put through the mesh. | 0:41 | |
So he rips it, he ties a knot, feeds it through and | 0:43 | |
he can, he like going for the (surprised noise) tying it. | 0:45 | |
And then he ties it around his neck | 0:48 | |
he gets onto what- the sink - and he jumps off | 0:49 | |
and he's hanging and he's making a noise "ahhh" | 0:52 | |
he can't breathe. And me and Shafiq, and Assif | 0:56 | |
was in one low, in one row, it was like the next area. | 0:59 | |
And they also wasn't praying (laughs) | 1:02 | |
We was about to pray. We was all washing up, and um | 1:04 | |
Assif shouted "MP, someone's trying to hang himself." | 1:07 | |
MP - we call the soldiers MP - and uh | 1:09 | |
they, they came rushing down. | 1:13 | |
Actually ran past his cell, (laughs) | 1:15 | |
They ran passed the cell, | 1:16 | |
made it to the end of- 'cause, 'cause | 1:18 | |
it's hard to see through the mesh | 1:20 | |
because of so many mesh, you know, it's hard to see. | 1:22 | |
And of course it's night, which makes it, you know, | 1:24 | |
quite hard to see. More. | 1:27 | |
Then he comes back, it was all "over here, over here" | 1:29 | |
And he came back, he opened the door | 1:31 | |
and the guy was like an obese, basically. | 1:32 | |
The guy who was hanging. So he was very, very fat. | 1:34 | |
Um and uh I think there's about three | 1:36 | |
of them and they're struggling to lift him off. | 1:39 | |
So he was hanging for a long time because of his weight, | 1:41 | |
and they couldn't like flip him and | 1:44 | |
lift him and get the um sheet off. | 1:46 | |
It took him about like 10 minutes and he was | 1:49 | |
like nearly, nearly out. | 1:52 | |
So that was one incident. | 1:53 | |
And there's another incident that happened | 1:54 | |
with a normal guy. | 1:55 | |
He tried to kill himself. | 1:56 | |
There's one guy, in isolation - who succeeded. | 1:58 | |
Apparently. But from what we know, his name was Michelle. | 2:00 | |
He was also in um the first prison that I was in. | 2:04 | |
I was arrested by the Northern Lights. | 2:07 | |
So I know him quite well. | 2:09 | |
He was in isolation | 2:12 | |
and apparently he tried to hang himself and he actually um | 2:13 | |
he never died, but his brain was starved of oxygen. | 2:16 | |
So that it's made him a cabbage basically. | 2:20 | |
So he's, he's paralyzed from | 2:22 | |
- | Did you see him after? | 2:24 |
= Yeah. I've seen him after. | 2:25 | |
- | How did you see him afterward? | 2:26 |
- | I went to the dentist to get my teeth done, | 2:28 |
had a root filling in my tooth. I'd paid. | 2:30 | |
And he was actually, um, always | 2:33 | |
he was not - after what happened to him, he was not actually | 2:36 | |
brought back to the camp. He was always actually | 2:39 | |
handcuffed to the bed even though he was a cabbage. | 2:41 |
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