British resident released from Guantnamo had exposed the brutal and inhumane torture inflicted upon him during his detention period in US jail. For nearly six years, Omar Deghayes was imprisoned in Guantnamo and subjected to such brutal torture that he lost the sight in one eye. But far from being broken, he fought back to retain his dignity and his sanity. In an interview Deghayes said, there are still around 200 prisoners left in the detention camp, many of whom have been there for eight years. He had joined other prisoners in protesting against a new humiliation inmates being forced to take off their trousers and walk round in their pants and a group of guards had entered his cell to punish him. He was held down and bound with chains. I didn't realise what was going on until the guy had pushed his fingers inside my eyes and I could feel the coldness of his fingers. Then I realised he was trying to gouge out my eyes, Deghayes says. He wanted to scream in agony, but was determined not to give his torturers the satisfaction. Then the officer standing over him instructed the eye-stabber to push harder. When he pulled his hands out, I remember I couldn't see anything I'd lost sight completely in both eyes. Deghayes was dumped in a cell, fluid streaming from his eyes. He said that he enjoyed Pakistan's mixture of west and east. He fell in love with an Afghani woman; they married and had a son.
