Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hanging

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-	They brought me into an interrogation room.	0:00
	There's an escort team,	0:02
	they are working for those people who is going	0:04
	to an interrogation and coming back.	0:07
	So they picked me up brought me in a tent,	0:09
	I had to sit on the floor	0:13
	and I was shackled my hands from my back.	0:16
	And they came with something I didn't saw it before,	0:24
	It was the first time I saw it.	0:28
	It's like a box,	0:32
	like a ACO.	0:34
	It's like a battery.	0:36
Interviewer	Oh battery?	0:38
	It's something like a battery.	0:38
	And there was two things you can,	0:42
	it's looks like those ones what the doctor is using	0:47
	for people who his heart not working anymore.	0:53
	I don't know how it's called	0:58
	something like electroshock.	0:59
Interviewer	Right.	1:04
-	What the doctor one use?	1:05
	Yeah, it's looked very similar.	1:06
	It was just a little bit old I guess.	1:10
	So they used on my feet, they used on my feet	1:13
	they put it on my toes.	1:18
Interviewer	Right.	1:22
-	And	1:23
	of course if they use electroshocks on you	1:27
	you can't talk	1:29
	and they didn't ask me if I will sign or not	1:33
	They said just,	1:36
	"Do you like it? Is it good like that?"	1:38
	and they just keep doing it and I couldn't say anything.	1:40
	After then they brought me just like the next day	1:45
	they asked me if I am going to sign or not,	1:50
	and if not they they will continue	1:52
	to try everything to make me sign.	1:57
	And	2:00
	I said, "I will not sign".	2:03
	After then, after a while they put me in an hangar	2:07
	They hang me on chains by my hands,	2:15
	I had handcuffs on my hands	2:18
	and those handcuffs they roped with a chain	2:20
	and pull me on the ceiling by those chains.	2:24
	(mumbles) my feet used to hang over the floor.	2:28
	And I had also shackles on my legs.	2:32
	So all my body used to hang over the floor.	2:37
	And	2:41
	they didn't...	2:44
	The doctor came a couple hours later	2:47
	the doctor came and when the doctor came	2:49
	they put me back down.	2:52
	He checked my eyes and he checked my fingernails	2:54
	he looked if everything is okay if I can survive,	2:58
	if I can survive more or not.	3:03
	And if he said, "okay" then they put me just back up	3:07
	and he said every time, "okay".	3:10
	He came and he checked my eyes and everything,	3:12
	after then he said, "okay" they put me back up.	3:17
	And	3:19
	the doctor came twice like twice a day,	3:21
	and the interrogator also he came twice a day.	3:25
Interviewer	Did they talk to you while you were hanging?	3:28
	Or they just let you hang?	3:30
-	When the interrogator came they pulled me back down,	3:32
	and he asked me if I will sign or not.	3:37
	If I will sign they said they will stop it.	3:39
	And	3:42
	the last couple of days I can't remember well	3:50
	because I start to pass out.	3:52
Interviewer	From hanging?	3:56
-	Yeah, from hanging and it's not just the hanging	3:56
	it's also very cold it was during wintertime.	4:00
	It was short after Christmas it was very cold	4:04
	and in Afghanistan that place, Kandahar it's very cold.	4:09
	I guess it was like	4:15
	10 under zero,	4:18
	it's Fahrenheit.	4:23
Interviewer	What were you wearing?	4:25
-	I had just shorts, I had just shorts.	4:28
	That is	4:32
	after then he asked me if I will sign or not,	4:34
	every time I said no he said, "Just pull him back up"	4:39
	and it was the same thing	4:44
	like the first three days I could remember one,	4:45
	just the last two days I can't remember.	4:48
	After, after they brought me back	4:50
	I asked the other prisoners how long I did stay away,	4:53
	they told me it was five days.	4:58

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Title:

Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hanging

Date:

August 19, 2009

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Kurnaz, Murat

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9TU-000061DP
Murat Kurnaz, male 27, age, Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, was detained in Guantanamo from February 13, 2002 until August 24, 2006, when he was released to Germany.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:13:42

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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