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The Taliban Gave Me Toothpaste.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2019/06/25/taliban-gave-me-toothpaste-former-captives-contrast-us-treatment-child-migrants/?utm_term=.f3ec75b1506aAmerican journalist Michael Scott Moore, abducted in 2012 while reporting in Somalia, watched Fabian argue that minimal necessities, like toiletries and sleeping conditions, were not essential to meet minimum “safe and sanitary” standards.
“That was — let’s say — below my experience in Somalia,” he told The Washington Post Tuesday of his more than two years in captivity.
“The conditions were about as miserable as you could imagine,” he said, describing a barren and concrete prison house. Often there was no electricity, he said, “but we had certain minimum things that kept it from being completely wretched.”
He said he was given toothpaste, soap, a daily shower and a foam mattress.
“That was — let’s say — below my experience in Somalia,” he told The Washington Post Tuesday of his more than two years in captivity.
“The conditions were about as miserable as you could imagine,” he said, describing a barren and concrete prison house. Often there was no electricity, he said, “but we had certain minimum things that kept it from being completely wretched.”
He said he was given toothpaste, soap, a daily shower and a foam mattress.
