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- ↑ Barbara Olshansky, Tina Monshipour Foster (2 January 2009). "Redha al-Najar v. Robert M. Gates -- 1:08-CV-02143 (JDB)" (PDF). United States Department of Justice . Retrieved 12 January 2009.
- ↑ "Tunisian Disappeared in 2002 Discovered in Bagram". International Justice Network. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
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...al-Najar was also held in the "Dark Prison," the Panjshir prison, "Rissat," and another prison identified as "Rissat 2,"...
- ↑ Dominic Rushe; Ewen MacAskill; Ian Cobain; Alan Yuhas; Oliver Laughland (10 December 2014). "Rectal rehydration and standing on broken limbs: the CIA torture report's grisliest findings". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 December 2014.
In April 2006, during a CIA briefing, President George W Bush, expressed discomfort at the "image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself". This man is thought to be Ridha al-Najjar, who was forced to spend 22 hours each day with one or both wrists chained to an overhead bar, for two consecutive days, while wearing a diaper. His incarceration was concealed from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- ↑ Swati Shara (9 December 2014). "List of the 119 prisoners detained in CIA's secret prisons program". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ Inel Tarfa (9 October 2016). "Scarring Below the Surface: Torture, the CIA and Tunisian Nationals". Archived from the original on 15 October 2016.
Lotfi Arabi Gherissi and Ridha Najjar were originally taken captive in Pakistan in 2002, before being transferred to the secret CIA prison called Cobalt in Afghanistan.
- ↑ Tina M. Foster (15 December 2014). "My client, a CIA torture victim". Washington Post . Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
An entire section of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee's executive summary of the CIA torture report focuses on the sadistic abuse of one of my clients. The excerpt, titled "CIA Headquarters Recommends That Untrained Interrogators in Country . . . Use the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on" Redha al-Najar, contains detailed descriptions of the specific methods of torture my client was subjected to while in CIA custody.
- ↑ "US: Ex-Detainees Describe Unreported CIA Torture". Human Rights Watch. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2022.