Guantanamo abuse row deepens

The Chadian ambassador to the US has told he will raise claims of the abuse of one of its citizens at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with the US authorities.Mohamed al-Qurani had been beaten and tear-gassed by guards after Barack Obama, the US president, pledged to end abuse at the camp in January."I will bring these allegations to my authorities and also will talk to my counterparts at the state department," Mahmoud al-Bashir, the Chadian ambassador to the US.Al-Bashir said he would raise the case with the Office of War Crimes, which advises Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, on international and domestic war crimes issues.The US state department refused to comment on the claims. Al-Qurani said during the call that the alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Barack Obama became US president and "since then I've been subjected to it almost every day".