The author of an internationally bestselling memoir about life in Guantánamo Bay has been released after enduring 14 years and severe torture at the US detention center. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose 2015 Guantánamo Diary memoir yielded a new wave of global outrage over Guantánamo Bay, is now free in his native Mauritania, his US attorney Nancy Hollander confirmed. In 14 years of captivity at Guantánamo, Slahi was never charged with any offense. Unless Slahi cooperated with interrogators, they threatened to bring his mother to Guantánamo, which the detainee understood as a rape threat. Slahi wrote in his memoir that the torture made him willing to say whatever his tormentors desired, regardless of its truth.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2016 17:37 UTC