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October 11, 2010

Former Guantánamo Prisoner Sues US Citing "Kafkaesque Nightmare"
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A Syrian man who was held at Guantánamo for seven years has filed a
lawsuit against the United States. In the suit, Abdul Razak al Janko
describes his time at Guantánamo as a "decade-long Kafkaesque
nightmare." Janko was detained by the US in 2002 after he was held for
eighteen months by the Taliban or al-Qaeda on suspicion that he was a
pro-American Israeli spy. While at Guantánamo, his lawyers say that he
suffered a broken knee and other injuries during interrogations and that
he has tried to commit suicide seventeen times. The thirty-two-year-old
Janko is the first man who was released through a Guantánamo habeas
petition to file a civil case.



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