{"id":358450,"date":"2018-04-26T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-former-qatari-detainee-was-tortured-in-us-jail\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:28:58","slug":"presstv-former-qatari-detainee-was-tortured-in-us-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-former-qatari-detainee-was-tortured-in-us-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Former Qatari detainee \u2018was tortured in US jail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A former Qatari detainee, accused by the US government of being involved in the planning of the September 11 attacks in 2001, says he had been\u00a0tortured and abused during 13 years of incarceration on American soil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the first time after his release three years ago, Ali al-Marri said his FBI interrogators would restrain him using duct tape and subjecting him to what he described as \u201cdry-boarding,\u201d a torture technique which includes having socks stuffed down the throat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never experienced death, but I assume this is the nearest thing to dying,\u201d he told the ITV News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re suffocating, you can see your life coming out of your face and you cannot even move,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari man alleged that\u00a0threats were made to his wife and children while being held in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreatening to sodomize me, threatening to rape my wife, threatening to bring in my kids, that\u2019s torture&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/26\/559737\/Qatari-national-Ali-alMarri--US-jail-torture-September-11-2001-attacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Qatari detainee, accused by the US government of being involved in the planning of the September 11 attacks in 2001, says he had been\u00a0tortured and abused during 13 years of incarceration on American soil. Speaking for the first time after his release three years ago, Ali al-Marri said his FBI interrogators would restrain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}