Surviving 14 Years In Guantanamo Bay - Mohamedou Ould Slahi - #322

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, you beautiful humans. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Mohamedou Ould Slahi, and this is an intense one. We're talking about surviving 14 years in Guantanamo Bay. Mohamedou is the subject of the film The Mauritanian, which you might have seen on Amazon Prime at the moment with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jodie Foster. And he's been called the most tortured man in Guantanamo Bay. Mohamedou lived for 14 years in Guantanamo. He was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, otherwise known as torture, sexually assaulted by prison officers, was force-fed food, waterboarded, subjected to a mock execution, and spent nearly 20 years away from his home country without being charged. This story is so intense. I don't even know, I can't really even put into words how it feels to hear so much suffering from one person. It's very moving and it consists of almost a completely unbroken one-hour monologue of Mohamedou's right in the middle of the episodes where he just takes us through the full story. God, I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say about this. It's crazy how brutal and raw and emotional and sad and insulting and inspiring all at the same time. And it's hard not to feel amazement at how positive and happy and forgiving and peaceful Mohamedou is after he's been through hell.
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