Death Poem

Take my blood,
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.

Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.

And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world,
Of the innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history,
Of this wasted, sinless soul,
Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors of peace"

Jumah Al Dossari

A thirty-three-year-old Bahraini national, is the father of a young daughter.
In addition to being detained at Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial , Dossari has been subjected to a range of physical and psycological abuses. He was held in solitary confinement for five long years from the end of 2003 till 2008 On one occasion, he was found by his lawyer, hanging by his neck and bleeding from a gash to his arm.

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