held in solitary confinement for periods exceeding a year;

deprived of sleep for days and weeks and, in at least one case, months;

exposed to prolonged temperature extremes;

beaten;

threatened with transfer to a foreign country, for torture;

tortured in foreign countries or at U.S. military bases abroad before transfer to Guantanamo;

sexually harassed and raped or threatened with rape;

deprived of medical treatment for serious conditions, or allowed treatment only on the condition that they "cooperate" with interrogators; and

routinely "short-shackled" (wrists and ankles bound together and to the floor) for hours and even days during interrogations.