‘Here I have nobody’: life in a strange country may be worse than Guantánamo

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Lutfi Bin Ali at his home in Semey


Sometimes, though, he wonders if his current predicament might actually be even worse than the 13 years he spent in the notorious prison. Lonely and isolated in the Kazakh steppe, the 51-year-old Tunisian has found life since his release from Guantánamo no easier than life inside.

“At least in Guántanamo there were people to talk to. Here I have nobody,” Bin Ali said during the Guardian’s two-day visit to his new home, a dusty town in northern Kazakhstan famed for being a Soviet nuclear testing site.


‘Here I have nobody’: life in a strange country may be worse than Guantánamo
 
Maybe, the Guardian should make him their Kazakh steppe correspondent?

He qualifies, he has the right victimhood attitude.
 
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