A British detainee held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has made fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their US captors, the British Guardian newspaper reported on December 11.

Martin Mubanga, 31, alleged that only months ago he was kept shackled for so long that he wet himself, and then was forced to clean up his own urine, the paper reported according to British Foreign Office documents seen by it.

Mubanga also claimed to have been threatened, that an interrogator stood on his hair, and that he was subjected to extremes of temperature rising to 36 degress Celsius, the paper quoted a letter from a Foreign Office official to the detainee's family as saying.

He was kept chained to the floor by his feet for an hour during a welfare visit from British government officials, the paper said.

The Foreign Office declined to comment on the documents seen by the paper. However, it said British officials had raised with the US authorities the allegations of maltreatment raised with the British government by Mubanga, which is one of four Britons still held in the US base in Cuba.

Mubanga, arrested in Zambia, has been held by the United Statesas a terrorist for more than two years without access to a lawyer.

Other allegations of mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay were made in October in a letter from another of the British detainees, Moazzam Begg.

The five Britons who were released from Guantanamo in March have also alleged torture.

Source: Xinhua