Idir, Mustafa Ait - short clip - erf
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- | They came to us, they told us in that block, | 0:00 |
the people who are in here, they can't have the pants. | 0:02 | |
You will be in shorts. | 0:05 | |
They said to me, | 0:07 | |
it was one of the Arabian interpreters there. | 0:09 | |
It was an Arab, I think from Iraq or something like that, | 0:11 | |
his accent is from Iraq. | 0:15 | |
I told him, "I'm not going to give you my pants | 0:17 | |
because I have to pray." | 0:19 | |
You know, I have to pray with my pants. | 0:21 | |
He said me, "You have to give me your pants. | 0:23 | |
Or, I will send the IRF team, which are six | 0:26 | |
to take it from you in force." | 0:31 | |
I told him I get mad, you know? | 0:34 | |
He was talking with me as kind of a, you know, | 0:36 | |
disrespecting completely. | 0:38 | |
I told him, "I'm not going to give it to you. | 0:40 | |
And let those six guards to come, | 0:42 | |
and I want you to be with them, please. You come with them." | 0:44 | |
So, I took off that pants and had shorts, | 0:48 | |
and I ripped it completely it. | 0:51 | |
I ripped it. And I put it in the corner. | 0:52 | |
He told me, "Okay, you ripped that pants, give it to us." | 0:55 | |
I told him, "I'm not going to, | 0:57 | |
let your guards to come in here." | 0:59 | |
So they can use the spray, | 1:01 | |
I fight with them, you know, use that spray. | 1:03 | |
Used three times, they can first kick first group. | 1:06 | |
I fight with them, | 1:09 | |
and they get out second group three times. | 1:10 | |
So until one, I fall down, I can't see anymore. | 1:12 | |
You know, with the spray, they used it. | 1:14 | |
And they get inside, they bring my finger that, see? | 1:17 | |
So until now, I can't move it, I can't put it back, see? | 1:21 | |
That bone, the bone, it get up right here. | 1:25 | |
You bring that finger, and they bring them also the, | 1:28 | |
they broke that one also. | 1:32 | |
And they move me from my cell. | 1:34 | |
They put me in the gravel outside. | 1:35 | |
They put with the handcuffs. | 1:39 | |
Isn't have those, it's the plastic one. | 1:40 | |
My face in the gravel here. | 1:42 | |
And they hold me. | 1:44 | |
One of the guards, he jump with his knee on that side. | 1:45 | |
Was standing and he jumped, his knee. | 1:49 | |
So after that, maybe one day, two day, I get the shock. | 1:51 | |
That side, the left side, it gets paralyzed. | 1:54 | |
It gets paralyzed. | 1:57 | |
So before, when he jumps, they take the house, | 1:58 | |
and he put, the hose, sorry. | 2:02 | |
Interviewer | The hose. | 2:04 |
- | Yeah. | |
And he put it in my mouth. | 2:05 | |
He turned the water, and big hose like that, | 2:06 | |
he put it into my mouth, I can't breathe. | 2:08 | |
Interviewer | This is when? | 2:10 |
Right after you were paralyzed? | 2:11 | |
- | No, before, when they move me from my cell to outside. | 2:13 |
Interviewer | Then they put the water | 2:16 |
in you? | 2:17 | |
- | Yeah. | |
And they too, and when they use before, | 2:18 | |
when it was in my cell, when it was the spray. | 2:19 | |
The spray, if you touch it, if the water comes on it, | 2:21 | |
your body all getting kind of, | 2:25 | |
it's this kind of infection, something like that, | 2:28 | |
you know, you're getting all red. | 2:31 | |
So, they take that hose, and use it to water in my body. | 2:32 | |
It's not in the linen that they have | 2:37 | |
because I had short, only short, and the top. | 2:40 | |
I didn't give them top. | 2:43 | |
I take the pants on, off, and I had the short. | 2:44 | |
And they use that hose, | 2:49 | |
so, after that he put it in my mouth. | 2:50 | |
I can't breathe. I stop breathing. | 2:52 | |
So, then they take it off, they put it something, | 2:54 | |
in middle, between my mouth and nose, my mouth and nose, | 2:58 | |
like that. | 3:01 | |
So, when I get breathing, the water get in my nose, | 3:03 | |
it was really hard. | 3:07 | |
So, then they put my face on the ground. | 3:10 | |
One of the guard, he jumps on his knee. | 3:12 | |
When he jumps, I get the shock in the left side. | 3:15 | |
Well I get that for 10 days, 10 days. | 3:18 | |
No one. I talk with the doctors. | 3:22 | |
I talk, the corpsman, the doctor, | 3:24 | |
the nurse who bring the medical. | 3:27 | |
I talk with them. | 3:28 | |
He was kind of playing game with me now. | 3:29 | |
I talk with him. | 3:33 | |
I told him, can you see when I drink, leaks. | 3:34 | |
When I blink my eye, that one, the right one, | 3:38 | |
the left one, even now, up to now, | 3:41 | |
one is sitting like that sometimes. | 3:43 | |
Some alone, you know? | 3:44 | |
When I touch up to, you know, when I touch like that, | 3:48 | |
it's completely different. | 3:50 | |
It's not that much, but it's different now. | 3:52 | |
Between the right and left side. | 3:54 | |
The all the left side was shock. | 3:56 | |
Interviewer | Did the doctors do anything for you | 4:00 |
during those nine days? | 4:02 | |
- | The doctor after 10 days, the doctor, | 4:03 |
they move me to the medical. | 4:05 | |
So the doctor come to me, and he called some | 4:07 | |
young man like that, I think they are U.S. students, | 4:11 | |
something like that, you know. | 4:14 | |
Maybe 19, 18, 19 years old. | 4:16 | |
And he was explaining to them, what is that sickness. | 4:19 | |
He said, I remember that he told them that sickness, | 4:23 | |
it kind of relying on nerves, | 4:26 | |
which is cut here into his brain, you know? | 4:29 | |
And so that side, it can't work like that. | 4:32 | |
When he get done with them, | 4:35 | |
He said, "Look, we'll give you some medicines | 4:36 | |
that helps you to come back." | 4:38 |
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