UNIDENTIFIED: He spent 11 days in a coffin-shaped box. UNIDENTIFIED: Abu Zubaydah is put in isolation.ĪLI SOUFAN: Everything that was happening was Mitchell’s experiment. JOSEPH MARGULIES: We asked him to draw what was done to him. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: The lawyer’s philosophy is, “Tell me what you want to do, boss, and I’ll make it legal.” JOHN RIZZO: Something more aggressive had to be done. UNIDENTIFIED: The CIA officers were certain he was holding back, because he wasn’t telling them what they wanted to hear. JOSE RODRIGUEZ JR.: I just took it for granted that they knew what they were doing. UNIDENTIFIED: Psychologist James Mitchell was the only candidate considered. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: People started looking for who was best to interrogate, and there weren’t any.

He was imprisoned in the secret CIA unit called Strawberry Fields - as in forever.ĭANIEL JONES: Prior to 9/11, the CIA never captured or detained anybody.

Abu Zubaydah has never been charged with a crime. UNIDENTIFIED: In 2002, FBI and CIA agents thought they had nabbed a diabolical al-Qaeda mastermind. In a moment, we’ll be joined by two guests, but first let’s turn to the trailer to Alex Gibney’s 2021 documentary, The Forever Prisoner. The drawings include graphic depictions of waterboarding, force-feedings, prisoners being held in boxes, and a practice known as walling. The Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University has just published a shocking new report that compiles a series of 40 graphic drawings by Abu Zubaydah that chronicle the horrific torture he endured. The CIA has been accused of using him as a human guinea pig by testing torture methods on him, including the practice known as waterboarding, which he endured 83 times, and rape under the pretext of rectal feeding. body says Abu Zubaydah’s ongoing detention may be a crime against humanity. He was later transferred to Guantánamo, where he has been held without charge. custody since 2002 - for more than 20 years - first at CIA black sites, including in Poland and Lithuania. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is calling on the United States to immediately release Abu Zubaydah, who’s been held in U.S. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.Ī warning to our audience: This segment contains graphic descriptions and visual descriptions of torture. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.

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