One year ago, with a petition that has now reached more than 50,000 signatures, Antigone launched a campaign for the introduction of the crime of torture into Italy's penal code.

In this video by Andrea Oleandri (Antigone’s communication manager), Larry Siems, a writer and human rights activist, speaks about "Guantanamo Diary," a book written by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a prisoner in the US military detention camp of Guantanamo Bay for over 12 years.

His extraordinary account, handwritten over 466 pages from his cell at Camp Echo in 2005, is finally being published after years of litigation — and more than 2,500 redactions by the US government. It is his account of the torture and deprivations he has suffered.

One instance of torture consisted of playing music at full volume continuously, day and night, with earphones that prisoners couldn’t take off. One of the songs used was "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen.