American torture victim seeks asylum

[Kim]

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An American citizen who alleges that he was detained and tortured overseas at the behest of the U.S. government — and is now marooned as a result of the U.S. no-fly list — has filed for political asylum in Sweden, he announced with his lawyers on Wednesday.

Yonas Fikre, 33, says he spent more than three months in a Dubai detention center in 2011. In a lengthy Skype interview with msnbc.com, he described sleeping on the concrete floor of a frigid jail cell, and enduring regular interrogation, beatings and stress positions that caused him to collapse or black out.

Just a sample, but I recommend reading the whole article.

Just another example of how fucked up our government is.

[shiney]

This guy will be lambasted as a traitor or whatever, until more follow in his footsteps including people on US soil. It will happen eventually unless the situation changes both in the government and politically.

[Jagos]

Let's get it straight.

We still have torture by proxy and our SCOTUS has basically said that people can be tortured but you have to sue the person that did the torture.