Al Jazeera Correspondent - Growing Up Guantanamo

Asadullah was only 10-years-old when he was arrested and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. While working as a tea-boy for an Afghan commander, he, along with 30 other Afghans were rounded up by US soldiers and sent to the notorious military site in Cuba. Branded a ’terrorist’ he was held for 17 months before finally being released. Al Jazeera’s Sonia Verma was the first journalist to find Asadullah after he was freed, travelling to his remote mountain village to interview him. What she discovered was a youn
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