Former US detainee says he suffered prison abuse

A German-born Turkish citizen is telling U.S. lawmakers of abuses he allegedly suffered while detained by the United States in Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo prison camp.

The lawmakers arranged for Murat Kurnaz to testify through a satellite link to a hearing on Guantanamo Tuesday.

Kurnaz was turned over to German authorities and freed from Guantanamo in 2006 after a personal plea from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He says that in 2002 in Afghanistan, U.S. interrogators tortured him. The alleged torture included electrical shocks and beatings while his head was held in a bucket of water. He says he also suffered abuse at Guantanamo.

A U.S. military tribunal had ruled that Kurnaz was an enemy combatant based on allegations that Kurnaz calls false.