Deprived of sleep, kept in isolation and interrogated … a boy's ordeal in Guantanamo

The ten minutes of video – selected by Khadr's Canadian lawyers from more than seven hours of footage recorded by a camera hidden in a vent – shows Khadr weeping, his face buried in his hands, as he is questioned by Canadian intelligence agents over four days in 2003.

The video, created by US government agents at the prison in Cuba and originally marked as secret, provides insight into the effects of prolonged interrogation and detention on the Guantanamo prisoner.

A Canadian Security Intelligence Services agent in the video grills Khadr about events leading up to his capture as an enemy combatant when he was 15. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. He was arrested after he was found in the rubble of a bombed-out compound – badly wounded and near death.

The Supreme Court of Canada in May ordered the Canadian government to hand over key evidence against Khadr to his legal team to allow a full defence of the charges against him, which include accusations by the US that he spied for and provided material support to terrorists.

In June, a Canadian Federal Court judge ordered the Canadian government to release the video to the defence team after the court ruled the US military's treatment of Khadr broke human rights laws, including the Geneva Conventions.

The video was released by Alberta-based lawyers Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney a week after intelligence reports made public last week showed Khadr was abused in detention.

A department of foreign affairs report said a Canadian official, Jim Gould, visited Khadr in 2004 and was told by the US military that the detainee was moved every three hours to different cells. That technique, dubbed, "frequent flyer," was one of at least two sleep-deprivation programmes the US military used against Guantanamo prisoners. The document also says Khadr was placed in isolation for up to three weeks and then interviewed again.

The report indicates that Khadr, who was born in Canada, but raised in Afghanistan, is asked numerous questions about his family, which has a history of alleged involvement with radical Islamic causes. His Egyptian-born father, Ahmed Said Khadr, and some of his brothers fought for al-Qaeda and had stayed with Osama bin Laden.

Mr Gould wrote a briefing note stating he had met a "screwed-up young man" whose trust had been abused by just about everyone who had ever been responsible for him.

Mr Whitling and Mr Edney released the video with hopes of shaming Canadian politicians into lobbying Washington for the repatriation of the now-21-year-old not convicted after six years. Thus far Stephen Harper, Canada's Conservative prime minister, has maintained he will not seek Khadr's return.

"We hope that the Canadian government will finally come to recognise that the so-called legal process that has been put in place to deal with Omar Khadr's situation is grossly unfair and abusive," Mr Whitling said.

Khadr's sister, Zaynab, said she was pessimistic his situation would improve. She noted that another brother, Abdullah, now in prison on terror charges in Canada awaiting extradition to the US, was interrogated by Canadian agents despite having been abused in detention in Pakistan.

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'I did not want to fight, but I had no choice', says youth as tape reveals cries for help

IN THE transcript of his interrogation, Omar Khadr repeatedly cries "help me".

Dressed in orange, and then aged 16, the Toronto-born terror suspect also sobs and sobs. He seems to say "kill me" over and over again.

At one point in the interrogation, Khadr pulls off his prisoner shirt and shows the wounds he sustained in the firefight leading to his capture.

"I can't move my arms," says Khadr, sobbing.

"They look like they are healing well to me," says the main interrogator. "I am not a doctor, but I think you are getting good medical care."

"No, I am not; you're not here. I lost my eyes. I lost my feet, everything," he appears to say.

"No, you still have your eyes and your feet are at the end of your legs," says the interrogator, after suggesting they take a break. "I understand this is stressful but, by using this strategy to talk to us, it is not going to be … helpful, we have a limited amount of time. We have heard this story before."

The Canadian agent later accuses Khadr of using his injuries and emotional state to avoid the interrogation.

"No, you don't care about me," Khadr says.

"That is not true. People do care about you," says the interrogator.

He again proposes that they take a break. A female agent tells him to put on his shirt and another agent turns on the fan.

"Put the fan on so you're cool," says another agent. "Take a few minutes and relax a bit," says the main interrogator.

On the final day, the agent tells Khadr that he was "very disappointed" in how Khadr had behaved, and tries to impress upon him that he should co-operate.

Khadr says he wants to go back to Canada.

"There's not anything I can do about that," the agent says.

The interrogator also questions him about the events leading up to his capture.

Before being detained, Khadr says he was staying with "bad people" – bad because they were "killing Americans".

He says his father dropped him at a house and he would be back for him. He initially says the people at the house were Afghanis, but then says there were also Arabs who told him and the Afghanis to fight to the death. The Arabs shot at the Americans, then the Americans shot back, he says, adding, "I did not want to fight, but I had no choice."