Habib's torture film 'to aid other prisoners'

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Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib has produced a home movie he claims shows how he was tortured in secret military prisons. Mr Habib was detained in Pakistan in October 2001 and accused of taking part in terrorism activities.After three years being moved between jails, including Guantanamo, he was freed by American authorities without charge.

"I was tortured more in the beginning," Mr Habib said. "I got my body is a dead body and my brain is dead from drugs and electric shocks. "When I go to Guantanamo Bay I am a dead person." Mr Habib says he hopes the video will draw attention to the mistreatment of hundreds of other detainees in jails in Pakistan, Egypt and Cuba, including fellow Australian David Hicks. I'm doing this for the other people and my family support that," he said.

Role play

In the film, Mr Habib plays the role of torturers in underground jails in Egypt, Pakistan and Cuba. His son, Ahmed, assumes the role of his father. "I was honoured to do it because he was my dad," Ahmed Habib said. "We have to put a stop to it and if we don't stand up who's going to stand up?" Mamdouh Habib's wife, Maha, says making the film was not easy. "It took us quite a long time to go through it and do the movie," she said. "It was very stressful for my husband and the kids." The film was shown by peace activists in Sydney yesterday.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1616836.htm

Torture re-enacted: Mr Habib says he hopes the film will draw attention to the plight of prisoners.

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1. Interesting last name. Habib in Arabic means "my love" or

"darling" in the masculine form. Habibi is the feminine form...