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By giving us the perspective of the detainees, "My Guantánamo Diary" provides a valuable account of what we can now recognize as one of the most shameful episodes in the war on terror.

I saw the ghosts of my fellow detainees on my left and my right.

I was handcuffed and shackled all the time, the only detainee at my age to be in foot shackles.

If one of the detainees had been my brother, for example, I think my own reaction would have been much different.

Ultimately, the judicial review did not get to court because the remaining detainees, who were my clients, did in fact come back.

When his interrogator told him, "I know you are innocent," one of my fellow detainees laughed hard and responded, "I'd rather be a criminal and sitting home with my kids".

Esmar Cifuentes, the Guatemalan detainee, worried that when "my family comes to see me … my children might think I did something evil like kill somebody".

Cuffed and blindfolded, like my fellow detainees, I lay transfixed.

In May 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Hui v. Castañeda that public health officials in the detention system could not be held liable for failing to provide medical care to detainees like Mr. Castañeda and my uncle.

Terrified of incurring more beatings, most of my fellow detainees - almost exclusively young men in their 20s and 30s, some still clutching dishevelled Egyptian flags from the protest - remained silent, though some muttered Qur'anic verses and others were shaking with sobs.

"I and my fellow detainees came in search of freedom after suffering extreme persecution in our home countries," he wrote.