Arun Rath: Mansoor al-Dayfi told me he feels like he is still in prison. “When they brought me to Serbia they make my life worse. They totally kill my dreams. It’s making my life worse. … Not because I like Guantanamo, but my life become worse here. I feel I am in another jail,” he said. Dayfi taught himself English at Guantanamo, but he didn’t make it far in his language classes in Serbia. He said his prospects for an education, a job, a social life and marriage are all derailed by the stigma of being an accused terrorist. He said he wants to be sent to an Arab country.
[…] after our first interview, Dayfi disappeared. For two days he didn’t answer his phone or his door. He then appeared at my hotel, looking terrified, with a fresh bruise on his head. He was certain he had been followed and that we were being watched in the hotel lobby, so we went to my room to talk. He told me that the day after our first interview several Serbian men wearing masks had forced their way into his apartment, and pinned him to the floor. While the others searched his apartment, the man holding him down yelled at him, saying things like, “If you want to stay here, you have to keep your mouth shut. You are lying. You are playing games.” Dayfi said he felt humiliated, and he broke down as he told the story. “They told me basically just shut your mouth and I’m lying. ‘If you don’t stay in this place, we’re going to take you someplace where you don’t like,’ ” he said. More here.