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throbbed. Whenever he managed, mercifully, to doze off, he would be startled awake by wooden clubs striking loud blows against the wall. He recalled the sting as he was repeatedly doused with ice water. He said he was not allowed to sit down for two weeks straight. At some point his legs felt like wet noodles; when they gave out, he was beaten and forced to stand back up. He could not remember how many times this happened.
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He described how he was beaten regularly by Americans in civilian clothing. More painful than the bruises and wounds that covered his body were the unbroken days and nights without sleep. Tape recordings of screeching sirens blared through the speakers that soldiers placed by his ears. His head
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Much to her surprise, Khan soon discovered many of the detainees she encountered were merely average citizens handed over to U.S. authorities, often by bounty hunters.
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Khan is now providing supervised legal counsel for one Afghan detainee at Guantanamo.
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with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government and from the
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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told me
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United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (Florida, 2007)
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in 2006. That article was later expanded into a book,
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Michigan
University of Michigan
BA
University of Miami
JD
Pashtun
University of Michigan
University of Miami School of Law
Juris Doctor
law school at the University of Miami
Pashto
Pashtun
defense attorneys representing detainees
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Washington Post
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told me
Daily Times
Ali Shah Mousovi
Mahvish Biography


Mahvish Khan
"My Guantanamo Diary: Face to Face With the War on Terrorism"


"Review: Translator gives an inside view in 'My Guantanamo Diary'"
St Petersburg Times
the original
"WikiLeaks: Ethics to what extent?"
Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review

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