from Dergoul when she compared the fictional demonization and extrajudicial abuse of Muslims in the Hollywood film The Siege and the abuse that Dergoul described to David Rose in his first interview. Jeannine Bell, writing in the Indiana Law Journal, asserted Dergoul was lucky not to be beaten unconscious like a nearby captive while he was held in Bagram. Jody Anstee chose a quote from Dergoul to lead her Ph.D. thesis. Anthony Lewis, writing in the New York Review of Books, cites Dergoul's description of being made to soil himself as an example of the USA violating the international "Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment"''. See also Bagram torture and prisoner abuse Torture References 1977 births Living people Guantanamo detainees known to have been released People from Mile End British torture victims Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees English people of Moroccan descent British extrajudicial prisoners of the United States