A brief article from The New York Times relating an account by Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's driver and the first detainee tried for war crimes, of sexual humiliation and coercion at Guantanamo.
A secret government document submitted at the trial of the first detainee to face a war crimes trial confirms the detainee’s account of having been sexually humiliated while interrogated by a female government agent, defense lawyers said at the tribunal here on Wednesday.
The lawyers described the document as an account by the unidentified agent and said it bolstered their claim that their client, Salim Hamdan, was subjected to measures at Guantánamo including late-night interrogations that amounted to coercion.
One of the lawyers, Harry H. Schneider Jr., said in the courtroom that Mr. Hamdan was “right on the money” in his description of a female interrogator’s physical contact with him in a way that a Muslim man would find nearly unbearable.
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