Did the Guantanamo Uyghurs like it better than living in China

• Rushan Abbas said on twitter that if you ask the Guantanamo Uyghurs what they thought of their time there, they’d say it’s better than living in the Orwellian Chinese state.^[https://archive.md/VjvkU]^[![[Pasted image 20211023095537.png]]]

• They were not tortured in Guantanamo Bay, but they were in Afghanistan.^[http://www.birlesikbasin.com/article/abbas-guantanamo-cehenneminde-neler-gordum-.html]

Rushan Hanım, orada edindiğiniz izlenimlerden yola çıkarak şunu da sormak isterim. Guantanamo da bu Uygur mahkumlara işkence yapılmış mı, ya da size bahsettiler mi böyle birşeyden? Hayır, ben işkence yapıldığına dair bir ‘iz’ görmedim. Mahkumlardan da bu konuda ‘bana işkence yapıldı’ diyen, olmadı. Ancak Guantanamo’ya getirilmeden önce Afganistan’da işkence yapıldığını anlatmışlardı.
Ms. Rushan, I would like to ask you this based on the impressions you got there. Have these Uighur prisoners been tortured in Guantanamo or have they told you about such a thing? No, I did not see any ‘trace’ of torture. No one among the prisoners said that ‘I was tortured’ in this regard. But before he was brought to Guantanamo, they told us that he was tortured in Afghanistan.

• Moazzam Begg said at the Delivery Of Uyghur Tribunal Judgment at 3:26:00 (12:22) that

  One of the things they told me was that they were thankful they were sent to Guantanamo and not to China.