Murat Kurnaz (born March 19, 1982) was wrongly held in extrajudicial detention at the U.S. military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba for five years. Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, who was born in Bremen, Germany, was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. He was only 19 years old at that time.
The United States and Germany discovered in 2002 that the accusations against Kurnaz were groundless but he was imprisoned for five years, and was released and arrived in Germany August 24, 2006.
Kurnaz says that he was tortured and in a congressional hearing he described electric shock, simulated drowning, and days spent chained by his arms to the ceiling of an airplane hangar.
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