A Syrian man who was held at Guantánamo for seven years has filed a lawsuit against the United States. In the suit, Abdul Razak al Janko describes his time at Guantánamo as a “decade-long Kafkaesque nightmare.” Janko was detained by the US in 2002 after he was held for eighteen months by the Taliban or al-Qaeda on suspicion that he was a pro-American Israeli spy. While at Guantánamo, his lawyers say that he suffered a broken knee and other injuries during interrogations and that he has tried to commit suicide seventeen times. The thirty-two-year-old Janko is the first man who was released through a Guantánamo habeas petition to file a civil case.