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Six seconds well spent.
It was. It was.
The anguish is clear on the face of Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who takes long pauses in an attempt to steady his tearful voice, as he recounts to the interviewer about how American interrogators repeatedly raped and tortured, or pretended to rape and torture, a woman in the cell next to him in an attempt to force him to falsely confess.
Begg’s eyes cloud over and he stares off into the distance as he relates how they manipulated his biggest fear, that his wife and children who were with him at the time of his arrest, were also imprisoned and in danger:
“I heard the cries of a woman (in the cell next to me) and an American voice shouting, ‘Spread your legs!’ and the woman is screaming and crying (as if she is being raped). Before I used to (always) ask the Americans about what happened to my wife and children since my arrest. They said ‘We don’t know,’ but at this time I didn’t ask because I was afraid of the answer. I thought my wife was in the cell.”
Begg was tortured and assaulted physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, and sexually as the American interrogators tried “breaking him down” in order to make him sign false confessions. Begg was released after three years spent in US custody without any charges held against him.
It is still not clear to this day whether the woman in the cell next to him was a fellow inmate also unjustly prisoned or an interrogator posing as a woman in distress.
It is known but hardly ever reported that the United States detains (Muslim) women who they “suspect” of being terrorists for no apparent reason, an example being Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (shown below in a picture of her taken while in US custody) who was abducted with her children by US intelligence.
After severe mistreatment in custody, during which she sustained a gunshot wound, Siddiqui was sentenced to 84 years in prison. Her young children who were with her when she was kidnapped and subsequently detained and interrogated have only recently been relocated. Siddiqui’s youngest son, who hadn’t even started walking yet, has disappeared since her kidnapping with no hint whatsoever of his whereabouts. Her older son has claimed that “the bloody body of his baby brother” was tossed to the side of the road by US soldiers when Siddiqui and her children were arrested. During her trial, Siddiqui was repeatedly removed from the court room for interrupting proceedings to scream out that her children had been tortured in front of her.
Four men who were imprisoned with Dr. Siddiqui in Bagram and who managed to escape reported in an interview:
“When they torture you, they threaten to sodomise you, they threaten to bring your wife and rape her in front of you and do other things to her. My words can never fully explain to you what happened during those interrogations.”
“Those American criminals think that they are the lords of human rights and that they are the callers for the freedom of the woman and her rescuers from oppression. There is a woman from Pakistan. She was put in solitary confinement for two full years in Bagram prison among more than 500 male prisoners and guards. She was treated the same way as the men were. This woman stayed there until she lost her mind, until she became insane, hitting the door and screaming day and night.”
a star trek au where everything is exactly the same except spock is wearing booty shorts
live long and twerk it
to boldly go where no booty has gone before
Spock is so sASSy
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★ Who is your favourite villain?
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AHEM. In WHICH MR. CHO POINTS THE OBVIOUS
(nervous laughter) INDEED
CRYING HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Trying new directions out.
Two double exposure photographs
that were created inside a camera & the colours
were then altered in photoshop.
Chris Pine → Into Darkness Sydney, Australia Premiere 2013
HOLY FUCK
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Thanks to medical illustrator Emily Evans I can now integrate two of my most favorite passions: hist-ology and pie-ology.
See more of Emily’s beautiful work here
Oh and while you are at it check out her other site Anatomy UK
Anatomy UK is a site run by Emily to reflect anatomical creativity both in the UK and worldwide. The new exciting creative ideas emerging that have been inspired by anatomy are continually pushing the boundaries of how we perceive it…. it’s no longer just for the academics.
I emphasized that last part. Spread the word. Histology is growing. Heart it.
cut open my sternum, and pull
my little ribs around you
the lungs of me be crowns over you
