Yemeni Guantanamo prisoner held after acquittal

Adnan Farhan al-Shar’abi, 34, is continuing to suffer physical and mental deterioration, torture, and humiliation five months after a US court order his release from Guantanamo bay, according to the letter he sent to his lawyer David Remes recently. “I have seen death many times,” said al-Shar’abi.
 
Al-Shar’abi, who was arrested in 2001, was transferred to Guantanamo in January 2002. An American judge ordered the U.S. District of Columbia to release him from the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last August, for lack of incriminating evidence to connect him with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
 
“I am not thinking about death any longer and I do not have any hope of release; especially after the U.S. court’s decision in August last year acquitted, and the insistence of the U.S. administration keep him in prison for resuming the case,”
explained al-Shar’abi.

 
He regretted in his letters to his only child for not being with him. “I lost the feeling of everything I missed it,” he added.  He said that his last meeting with his lawyer was an indication of continuing injustice against him. “It is a part of hell,” he said, describing prison life. He repeated in his letters about his situation. “I am incredibly sad when I think about my lonely child and that’s what keeps me alive.” That is an indication of the seriousness of the deterioration of his psychological state inside the prison.
 
Al-Shar’abi also wrote at the end of his letter a poem lamenting his conditions in prison. In the poem he that’s that he feels that his only release will be into a grave. He also considered his letters as a certificate of condolence to his dead body, debilitating chronic diseases, and scattered blood.
 
He said he was mourning his dead body to the Yemeni delegation, which visited him in prison and that he was sick when he went for treatment in Pakistan, blaming the Yemeni people for his expected death before Allah and the responsibility for the survival of the rest of the Yemenis in prison.
 
“I became a prey of imagination and perceptions, I remain repeating the same explanations and fake and strange explanations, and I feel that talking with another, but in fact to myself,” he imagined. “I see things and other objects threaten my existence, so I get strong disorder movements I do not understand its purpose and significance, in most times often accompanied by tension and pressure pay me to attack those around,” he said.
 
Al-Shar’abi noted that he is steeped in the seas of the fears and fantasies that require death in the fastest time to end his suffering and to launch his freedom, describing the prison doctors that they are the hands of the crime.
 
Al-Shar’abi, who justified his presence in Pakistan to treat his injuries in the head as a result of an traffic accident that happened in Yemen at the age of 18, although he addressed in Yemen, but he has been suffering from its effects. He sought to get the humanitarian assistance, until he knew in 2000 to a man named “Ibrahim”, who has pledged to provide treatment to him in Pakistan.
 
While the American authorities argued that story, it was considered that Abraham was in fact responsible to attract al-Qaeda members and his title was Abu Kholod. He encouraged al-Shar’abi to go to Afghanistan to receive military training.
 
The U.S. authorities exploited information took it from other prisoners with him to promote her story that Abraham is Abu Kholod, as he pointed. He pointed out that none of the detainees said that they saw him in the field of battle or in a security house for al-Qaeda or at a training camp.
 
In 2004, the American Ministry of Defense approved that al-Shar’abi is not known to them and he did not participate in any battle or military training.

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