Former Guantanamo prisoners sue U.S.

The four were held at the U.S. military prison for nearly three years after being captured in northern Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance in November 2001.

They were handed over to British authorities in March.

The lawsuit alleges that the men were chained to the floor of a cold room for up to 14 hours a day and exposed to bright strobe lights and loud music.

They also say they were stripped naked and forced to watch videos of other prisoner whom they allege were forced to sodomize each other.

Some of the men say they were injected with drugs during interrogation.

The U.S. military denies the allegations and says the men were being legally held after they fought for al-Qaeda against U.S. forces in Afghanistan

Among those named in the lawsuit are Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who is the former head of the Guantanamo prison and now runs Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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