• The black jail was the most dan­ger­ous and fear­ful place. They don’t let the ICRC offi­cials or any other civil­ians see or com­mu­ni­cate with the peo­ple they keep there. Because I did not know what time it was, I did not know when to pray.
• Detained Kan­da­har spare-parts dealer Hamidul­lah • Describ­ing the scary sit­u­a­tion he faced when he was held at a secret prison at the Bagram Air Base. Hamidul­lah, who doesn’t use a last name, faced a win­dow­less con­crete cell lit by a sin­gle light bulb and twice-daily inter­ro­ga­tion ses­sions – the only con­tact he had with the out­side world. Obama had shut many of these secret pris­ons down in Jan­u­ary, but his order only applied to those run by the CIA. This prison is run by Spe­cial Ops forces. source

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