Late in the evening on 9 June 2006, three prisoners at Guantánamo died suddenly and violently. Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, from Yemen, was thirty-seven. Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, from Saudi Arabia, was thirty. Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, also from Saudi Arabia, was twenty-two, and had been imprisoned at Guantánamo since he was captured at the age of seventeen. According to the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service's report, each prisoner had fashioned a noose from torn sheets and T-shirts and tied it to the top of his cell's eight-foot-high steel-mesh wall. Each prisoner was able somehow to bind his own hands, and, in at least one case, his own feet, then stuff more rags deep down into his own throat. According to the report, each prisoner, even as they were choking on the rags, would have climbed up on their washbasin, slipped their head through the noose, tightened it, and leapt from the washbasin to hang until they asphyxiated. The report also proposes that the three prisoners, who were held in non-adjoining cells, carried out each of these actions almost simultaneously.
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
