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I. Introduction
The following is a compilation by Human Rights Watch of
accounts by thirty-three former detainees at Guantanamo of their experiences
there. Human Rights Watch interviewed sixteen of the detainees, reviewed press
reports containing statements by former detainees interviewed by journalists,
and used as well statements published by the detainees themselves. Where
accounts provided us in interviews are consistent with published accounts, we
have quoted from the published accounts, so that the reader of this compilation
has access to the complete statements. We include only what detainees said
they had experienced personally or had witnessed.
All of the detainees whose accounts are compiled below
appear to have all been “low value” detainees. We are not aware of any “high
value” detainees who have been released. Accounts by low value detainees may
not shed much light on how high-value detainees are being treated.
