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Murat Kurnaz (born March 1, 1982 Bremen, Germany) is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at its military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba for five years. Although born in Germany, as a child of guest workers Kurnaz was required by German law to apply for citizenship after becoming 18, which he had in process when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. He was 19 years old at that time.〔(Murat Kurnaz, ''Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo'' ), Part I, ''The Guardian'', 23 April 2008, accessed 24 January 2013〕〔 〕 By early 2002 intelligence officials of the United States and Germany had largely concluded that the accusations against Kurnaz were groundless, but he was detained for nearly five more years. He was released and arrived in Germany on August 24, 2006.〔("Turk Was Abused at Guantanamo, Lawyers Say" ), ''Washington Post'', August 25, 2006〕〔("Meeting Murat Kurnaz: A Visit with a Man Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo" ), ''Der Spiegel''〕 Kurnaz says that he was tortured during detention in Kandahar and Guantanamo. In testimony via videolink in 2008 to a United States Congressional hearing, he described having suffered electric shock, simulated drowning (known as waterboarding), and days spent chained by his arms to the ceiling of an airplane hangar at Kandahar. His memoir of his experience, ''Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo'' was published in 2007 in German, French, Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch editions. Excerpts were published serially by ''The Guardian'' beginning April 23, 2008, and in the United States that year. In his book, Kurnaz also wrote about the deaths of three detainees in custody at Guantanamo on June 10, 2006. The US Department of Defense said they had committed suicide. Noting that the detainees were always under observation at the camps, Kurnaz said that he and other prisoners "unanimously agreed, the men had been killed. Maybe they had been beaten to death and then strung up, or perhaps they had been strangled."〔(Andy Worthington, "Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?" ), 25 August 2008, Andy Worthington website, accessed 8 February 2013〕 Other observers and numerous journalists questioned the official accounts of these deaths, as two of the men had been cleared for release. == Guantanamo detention center files == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murat Kurnaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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