stern.de April, 2008

He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany's "Stern" magazine all about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in fear.

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"Guantánamo is a place without laws, that is what it was created for" 

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"Although the German government knew that I had never broken any laws, although they had no evidence against me, although they knew that I had been tortured, they left me in Guantánamo for over three more years."

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Did you cry as well [when you were reunited with your family]?

"Everybody cried. I did not. I do not know if I can still cry. Perhaps I forgot how to cry on Cuba."

Read more at stern.de...