Sleep Deprivation
On August 7, 2008 the Washington Post reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue the illegal practice of arbitrarily moving captives multiples times a day to deprive them of sleep. The report stated that Ahmed Rashidi was routinely having six hour interrogations in the middle of the night, followed by a series of cell relocations. Guards called this practice the "frequent flyer program".
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Famous quotes containing the words sleep and/or deprivation:
“There dwell the children of the dark Night, the dread gods Sleep and Death.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)