- Bernhard Docke: [day 1252, March 2005] We'll discuss it at the press conference, but you should know about it now. Murat has been tortured.
- Rabiye Kurnaz: I was half expecting it.
- Bernhard Docke: [day 1252, March 2005, press conference] An American judge in Washington recently stated in her judgment that Murat's case was one of the most flagrant examples of military abuse in Guantanamo, because he was detained solely on the basis of speculation while evidence of his innocence were being ignored. At the same time, it's more or less proven that at the time of his arrest he was sold to the Americans by the Pakistani for a bounty of 3,000 dollars.
- Bernhard Docke: [day 998, June 2004] Today the American President was outvoted, six votes to three, by the greatest court in the USA.
- closing title card: 20 years after 9/11, 39 people are still being held without trial in Guantanamo.
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [day 572, April 2003] Do you think Murat is guilty?
- Bernhard Docke: That doesn't matter to me. Our legal system is also there for those who have committed crimes.
- Atilla Kurnaz: [day 93, January 2002] What'll happen to Murat, Dad?
- Mehmet Kurnaz: If he hasn't done anything, nothing.
- Bernhard Docke: [day 248, June 2002] I can't invoke habeas corpus because there's no warrant for his arrest. I can't see the case files because there's no charges. Mr. Mush is denying your son all the rights that a prisoner is normally entitled to.
- [first lines]
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [knocking on his door] Murat! Murat!
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [knocking louder] Murat, it's noon already! Murat, get up or I'll cut your beard off!
- Bernhard Docke: [day 934, April 2004, Washington] Here, on the Supreme Court portico, it says, "Equal justice under the law." That's what we are demanding, nothing more.
- Herr Auswärtiges Amt: [day 120, February 2002] First, Mrs. Kurnaz, we don't know what he did or did not do. Secondly, we have to inform you that your son was taken to Guantanamo on January 30.
- closing title card: Berhard Docke fought unsuccessfully for years to rehabilitate Murat Kurnaz.
- closing title card: Two commissions of inquiry discovered that German government officials had tried to prevent his return for political reasons.
- closing title card: He has received no compensation. No one ever apologized to him or his family.
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [day 248, June 2002] Can Mr. Bush keep my Murat locked up for as long as he wants?
- Bernhard Docke: Theoretically... at the moment... yes.
- [after 1786 days, on August 24, 2006, Murat is re-united with his family at US airbase Ramstein, Germany]
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [to Murat, on the drive home] I have to tell you something. Your wife, Fadime. She divorced you, a few months back. She couldn't stand waiting anymore.
- Rabiye Kurnaz: [March 2004, in Washington] Is he even still alive? The last card from him came two years ago.
- Bernhard Docke: [day 866, February 2004] That's partly the problem. I don't know him at all. This is the first time i've defended someone I've never met.
- DC Taxi: [day 934, April 2004, in Washington again] This ride today is for free. I want you to go and win that case. I'm sick of being ashamed for my country.
- [a military tribunal in Guantanamo found further detention justified]
- Bernhard Docke: [day 1037, August 2004] It was clear that they would boycott the Supreme Court's judgment.
- Sekretärin Koslowa: Those Taliban want to bomb us back to the Middle ages. That doesn't bother you?
- Bernhard Docke: "Those Taliban"? You don't normally repeat what it says in the tabloids. Besides, the boy is practically tortured, held in a cage without outside contact. Now that's medieval.
- Bernhard Docke: [day 1252, March 2005, press conference] In the American detention camp in Kandahar, Murat Kurnaz was repeatedly beaten. During the interrogation his head was held under water in order to simulate drowning, and he was given electric shocks via his feet. One time, a soldier held a gun to his head and shouted "I'm going to kill you." Kurnaz was put in chains and hung by his hands for long periods. In Guantanamo he was tortured systematically by means of sleep deprivation, constant loud music, and constant interrogations.
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