Reported abuses to which Khadr has been subjected include:
1. not informed of his rights;
2. forced to provide involuntary statements;
3. short shackled -- wrists and ankles handcuffed together and the cuffs bolted to the floor;
4. forced to sit, during interrogation, on an extremely cold floor;
5. kept in isolation for a month at ‘refrigerator’ temperatures, (referred to in Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s memo as ‘manipulation of the environment’10;
6. his body dragged back and forth, while short shackled, through the urine so as to clean the floor with his body;
7. forced to perform painful exercises while short shackled;
8. repeatedly lifted and dropped while short shackled as a punishment for ‘poor performance’;
9. threatened with forced nakedness;
10. threatened with sexual violence;
11. forced to urinate on himself while in stress positions;
12. refused the opportunity to say prayers;
13. detained illegally and illegally held incommunicado, except for the November 2004 visit from a lawyer;
14. held in a cell that is ‘freezing cold’ 24 hours a day that Khadr says is causing shortness of breath and the sensation of not being able to get enough oxygen; and
15. kept in solitary confinement.
16. exposed to continuous electric light in his cell.
17. forced into stress positions for periods of hours, e.g., forced to lie on his stomach with his hands and feet cuffed together behind his back;
18. he has found partially dissolved tablets and/or powder at the bottom of a glass given him by his captors. He says the pills produce various effects -sleepiness, dizziness, alertness11.
Rhuhel Ahmed, previously imprisoned one cell away from Khadr’s cell recollects that Khadr was also denied medical attention
“…the same thing also, we are aware, happened to a young Canadian man, Omar Khadr, who was aged 17 when we left. He had been shot three times at point blank range and his lung punctured and had shrapnel in one eye and a cataract in the other. They would not operate on him. He was told that was because he would not cooperate. We were told one time when he was in isolation he was on the floor very badly ill. The guards called the medics and they said they couldn’t see him because the interrogators had refused to let them. We don’t know what happened to him (he had had some sort of operation when he was still in Afghanistan but he was in constant pain in Guantánamo and still undoubtedly is, and they would not give him pain killers.”12
Khadr suffers from depression, persistent body pain, loss of vision in his left eye, blurred vision in his right eye, shortness of breath, the sensation of being unable to get enough oxygen and a ‘significant mental disorder’ attributed to his treatment during detention. He has difficulty breathing and stomach problems which he attributes to the food..13.
the report of Dr. Eric Trupin:
“The symptoms O.K. [Omar Khadr] exhibits indicate a high probability that he suffers from a significant mental disorder, including but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. In addition he appears to be having both delusions and hallucinations. Post-Traumatic stress disorder results from exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor involving direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one’s physical integrity.….Torture and incarceration as a prisoner of war or in a concentration camp are examples of events that could lead to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. If left untreated, post-traumatic stress disorder, particularly in juveniles, may cause irreparable damage. It is my opinion, to a reasonable scientific certainty, that O.K.’s continued subjection to the threat of physical and mental abuse place him a significant risk for future psychiatric deterioration which may include irreversible psychiatric symptoms and disorder…In my professional opinion, O.K.’s symptoms are consistent with those exhibited by victims of torture and abuse…In my professional opinion, O.K. is at a moderate to high risk for suicide.”14
