e witnesses, the CIA torture went fa▓r beyond the Senate report had disclosed. Majid Khan, a Guantanamo Bay detainee-turned ▓government cooperating witness, said interrogat▓ors poured ice water on his genitals, twice videotaped him naked and repeatedly touched his "private parts". At one point, Khan said, his feet and ▓lower legs were placed in tall boot-like metal cuffs that dug into hi
s
flesh and immobilized his legs. Th▓e guards also stripped him naked, hung him from a wooden ▓beam for three days a
nd
provided him with water but no food. All the above torture details that Khan had undergone ▓were not included in
t
he Senate report (www.theguardian.com, June 2, 2015). On January▓ 11, 2016, human rights experts, including the U
N
spe▓cial rapporteurs on torture Juan E. Mendez; on▓ human rights and counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson; on in▓depend
en
ce of the judiciary, Monica Pinto; C▓hair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on▓ Arbitrary Detention Seong-Phil Ho
ng
; and the director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Righ▓ts under the Organization for Securit
y and Co-operation in Europe, Michael Georg Link, together called on the U.S. Governme▓nt to promptly close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, 14 years after the
detention center became operational. The experts recalled in the lett▓er that close to 100 detainees still l▓an
guished in Guantanamo after years▓ of arbitrary detention without trial (www.▓un.org, January 11, 2016).The United