Bismillah
Every night I think of my dad and I cry in a very low voice so that my mother doesnt hear, and I dream that he is coming home and gives me a big, big hug.Anas son of Guantanamo detainee Jamil El Banna
Why are they doing this to us? What am I supposed to tell my children, who at every phone ring, every door bell, ask' Is this our father'? Nadja Dizdarevic, wife of Bosnian detainee at Guantanamo, Boudella al-Hajj
Every day her grandfather gives the youngest money and she goes to buy something for her father, but in the end she had to eat it as he is not there Brother of Saeed Ahmed al-Sarim who is being held in Guantلnamo Bay
They ordered me to thank Jesus that Im alive Al-Sheik, Iraqi prisoner from Abu Ghraib
When you die, you die in a second but in that prison, you died a hundred times every day Ali Kashmar, former detainee at Khiam prison, Israel
They stole 14 months of my life… they were interrogating me everyday and in the first three or four days giving just a little food, and giving punishment.
15-year old Afghan, one of three children recently released from Guantanamo
Since the beginning of these events my children and my wife have not been able to sleep. My wife cries every night
Bilal Khazal, detained in Australia under Anti-Terrorism laws
They did everything to us - they tortured our bodies, they tortured our minds, they tortured our ideas and our religion.
Mohammed Khan, ex-Guantanamo detainee, released 16-03-04
The children are always saying is my father coming home tomorrow? The youngest child waits every day by the door, saying her father is coming right now, but he never does come.
Brother of Saeed Ahmed al-Sarim who is being held in Guantلnamo Bay
If they want to kill me, kill me. Just give me my son.
Sabrea Kudi, mother of Iraqi detained in US custody
Why is it that non Muslims are eager to listen and help get justice for my son and the other captives but the Muslims seem to stay away? I gave out 5 000 flyers in a door-to-door campaign in predominantly Muslim areas, all the shops and mosques had posters in them. Yet when we have a public meeting the only faces I see are non-Muslims. Father of Ruhal Ahmad, former Guantanamo detainee
My life is finished. Ill never, ever be the same
Imane, wife of Masaud Khan, sentenced to life in prison in the US
you arrest them, you never question them, and you lock them up and dont tell them what the evidence is against them, and tell them its potentially for ever. In the context of psychological warfare, its hard to see any government constructing a better set of circumstances designed to drive someone to madness
Gareth Peirce, leading civil liberties lawyer for the Belmarsh and Guantanamo detainees
"It is a nightmare to me that I did not even know Abdullah had died until I was released.” Hussain Yousuf Mustafa, ex-Guantanamo detainee, speaking about his son.
I am not a terrorist, but I am a member of a group: five kids and a wife. Detainee A, former prisoner in HMP Woodhill
I was feeling very low, I was taken away from my children, Id lost my husband, it was totally unfair Tahira Tabassum, former Belmarsh detainee
These men have spent 18 months in wire cages and the British government has stood by and done nothing Louise Christian, a solicitor for Feroz Abbasi, British Detainee
Every night I think of my dad and I cry in a very low voice so that my mother doesnt hear, and I dream that he is coming home and gives me a big, big hug.Anas son of Guantanamo detainee Jamil El Banna
Why are they doing this to us? What am I supposed to tell my children, who at every phone ring, every door bell, ask' Is this our father'? Nadja Dizdarevic, wife of Bosnian detainee at Guantanamo, Boudella al-Hajj
Every day her grandfather gives the youngest money and she goes to buy something for her father, but in the end she had to eat it as he is not there Brother of Saeed Ahmed al-Sarim who is being held in Guantلnamo Bay
They ordered me to thank Jesus that Im alive Al-Sheik, Iraqi prisoner from Abu Ghraib
When you die, you die in a second but in that prison, you died a hundred times every day Ali Kashmar, former detainee at Khiam prison, Israel
They stole 14 months of my life… they were interrogating me everyday and in the first three or four days giving just a little food, and giving punishment.
15-year old Afghan, one of three children recently released from Guantanamo
Since the beginning of these events my children and my wife have not been able to sleep. My wife cries every night
Bilal Khazal, detained in Australia under Anti-Terrorism laws
They did everything to us - they tortured our bodies, they tortured our minds, they tortured our ideas and our religion.
Mohammed Khan, ex-Guantanamo detainee, released 16-03-04
The children are always saying is my father coming home tomorrow? The youngest child waits every day by the door, saying her father is coming right now, but he never does come.
Brother of Saeed Ahmed al-Sarim who is being held in Guantلnamo Bay
If they want to kill me, kill me. Just give me my son.
Sabrea Kudi, mother of Iraqi detained in US custody
Why is it that non Muslims are eager to listen and help get justice for my son and the other captives but the Muslims seem to stay away? I gave out 5 000 flyers in a door-to-door campaign in predominantly Muslim areas, all the shops and mosques had posters in them. Yet when we have a public meeting the only faces I see are non-Muslims. Father of Ruhal Ahmad, former Guantanamo detainee
My life is finished. Ill never, ever be the same
Imane, wife of Masaud Khan, sentenced to life in prison in the US
you arrest them, you never question them, and you lock them up and dont tell them what the evidence is against them, and tell them its potentially for ever. In the context of psychological warfare, its hard to see any government constructing a better set of circumstances designed to drive someone to madness
Gareth Peirce, leading civil liberties lawyer for the Belmarsh and Guantanamo detainees
"It is a nightmare to me that I did not even know Abdullah had died until I was released.” Hussain Yousuf Mustafa, ex-Guantanamo detainee, speaking about his son.
I am not a terrorist, but I am a member of a group: five kids and a wife. Detainee A, former prisoner in HMP Woodhill
I was feeling very low, I was taken away from my children, Id lost my husband, it was totally unfair Tahira Tabassum, former Belmarsh detainee
These men have spent 18 months in wire cages and the British government has stood by and done nothing Louise Christian, a solicitor for Feroz Abbasi, British Detainee