Shaker Aamer, the last British resident imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, says he suffers from regular assaults, including those of a sexual nature, from the guards. He has spent more than 11 years at the US detention facility without charge.<\/p>\n
Aamer, who was arrested in Afghanistan\u2019s Jalalabad in November 2001, has been cleared for release by both Bush and Obama administrations, yet he remains incarcerated at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n
Aamer has described mistreatment he receives by Forcible Cell Extraction (FCE) teams at Gitmo in a declassified phone call with his lawyer last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI refuse to do what they tell me, even though I know I am about to get beaten up,\u201d Aamer said in the phone call, which was published Thursday by British newspaper The Independent. \u201cSometimes, you just have to make a stand, however pointless that stand might seem to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The episode described happened when Aamer refused to leave his cell and was staging a non-violent, sitdown protest.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s all about control, and if they feel they are not always in control, then that\u2019s a threat to national security, a threat to the thousands of soldiers with their M16s at Guant\u00e1namo,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n