The Dark Prison

Afghanistan’s notorious Prison of Darkness houses prisoners in total darkness, with heavy metal music blaring for weeks at a time.  Prisoners are chained to walls and deprived of food and water.

Statements from detainees to their lawyers have confirmed that this prison was being used on a regular basis to carry out some of the worst cases of abuse against them.

Those who were held there commented that both US and Afghani guards and interrogators did not wear military attire strongly suggesting their connection to the CIA rather than the US military.

Laid Saidi described it as a "dark prison" filled with deafening Western music. Binyam Mohammad, an Ethiopian who grew up in Britain, told his lawyer of being "hung up" in a lightless cell for days at a time, as his legs swelled and his hands and wrists became numb.

The Dark Prison is believed to have ceased operation in 2004.