NATIONAL BRIEFING / GUANTANAMO BAY

A Guantanamo prisoner from Chad was given permission to telephone a relative, but instead called the Al Jazeera television channel and said he was being beaten and abused at the U.S. military detention camp in Cuba.

Transcripts of the interview with Mohammad Gharani, 21, were posted on the Qatar-based channel’s English-language website. It was the first known interview with a captive held at Guantanamo, which journalists are allowed to visit only if they sign an agreement not speak to prisoners.

Gharani was ordered freed by a U.S. district judge in Washington in January.