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 Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi was subjected to the "frequent flyer" program from November 2003 to February 2004.
Robert Rachlin, one of his lawyers, stated:
"We have to assume that the frequent flyer program, what its details were, was not designed to strengthen the comfort and resolve of the prisoner. Sleep deprivation is coercive. Of course it troubles me."
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