In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street. Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.” “The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.” Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen. AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo [Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]
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In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.

Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”

“The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.”

Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen.

AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo

[Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]

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    it’s interesting how he never knew his music was being used for such dark purposes.
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    On one hand hilarious, on another very very cruel.
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    i am telling my future kids about this.
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