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Point when you were chained to a bed. did that ever happen? >> yes. that happened a few times after -- the night that i escaped when they got me under custody, they stripped me of my clothes and than they handcuffed me. my hands to a bed post and my feet to a bed post. so i was kind of stuck there standing over night. >> standing over night? or lying down? >> yeah. i slept there standing overnight but than i managed to get on my knees. i went from standing to on my knees and than i went from on ...

Ited and profound deprivation. he tried to escape at one point. here is what he described about his life in a mexican prison, watch. >> i was hit multiple times. i was punched in the stomach a few timesed to the point where i couldnt breerkts i was gasping for air. struck in the face with open palms, slaps. i got slapped on one side of my jaw maybe like 10 times in a row. and my jaw kind of -- it fell out of place not out of place but it moved in way where something didnt feel right. the night t...

Bed post. they put the handcuffs on me nice and tight. and handcuffed me to the bed. >> unbelievable. >> this son the phone. >> his mom says this is much worse than anything he ever felt and experienced while he was in iraq. >> we had a lot of viewers riding us, every weekend when we where can we sign a petition to get the white house and government involved. make a phone call to the mexican government and get him out of there now there is a petition up on whitehouse.gov. if you want to gone and...

And that is the mexicans, he said that treatment coming soon after he was detained. i was punched in the stomach a few times. to the point where i was forced to be on my knees with my face pushed up against the fence part. and my feet were stepped on. because he was threatened by inmates, he pannished and tried to escape from one part to another. and he injured himself and things went from bad to worse with him. >> and they stripped me of my clothes and then they handcuffed me, my hands to bed p...

To a bed post. so i was kind of stuck there standing overnight. >> reporter: you can really hear the strain in his voice as hes reliving the ordeal. he said despite telling mexico border officials on the night of march 31st, three months ago, that he had all of his guns and his possession and they could take them and let him go back but there was no way authorities were prepared to put up with that. tammar hesy saying he is concerned for his family and the treatment getting in mexico and making ...

I heard there was a point where you were chained to a bed. did that ever happen? >> yes. that happened a few times. the night i escaped when they got me on their custody they stripped me of their clothes and then they handcuffed me, my hands to a bed post and my feet to a bed post. so i was kind of stuck there standing overnight. >> standing overnight or lying down? >> i was stuck there standing overnight. but then i imagined to get on my knees i went to it

Greta, had an opportunity to speak to your son on the phone. heres some of what he had to say. lets play it. >> they stripped me of my clothes and then they handcuffed me, my hands to a bed post and my feet to a bed post. so i was kind of stuck there standing overnight. i think it was for discipline, for punishment. i was hit multiple times. i was punched in the stomach a few times to the point where i couldnt breathe. >> now, jill, i know youre operating as counsel basically for your son right ...

Laying on my side to uncomfortable position. i managed to work my way to sitting on the bed with one of my arms underneath my legs beings underneath my leg and then on to the bed post. and then i managed to fall asleep with my head on my knee for a little bit. >> why did they think that was necessary to change of plea you to that? do you know? was it to be punitive or was it because they thought it was for your own safety or that you wouldnt run away? why do you think they did that? >> i think i...

Laying on my side to uncomfortable position. i managed to work my way to sitting on the bed with one of my arms underneath my legs beings underneath my leg and then on to the bed post. and then i managed to fall asleep with my head on my knee for a little bit. >> why did they think that was necessary to change of plea you to that? do you know? was it to be punitive or was it because they thought it was for your own safety or that you wouldnt run away? why do you think they did that? >> i think i...

>> right. >> every moment as it comes, waiting for the time to pass. my mind is kind of -- became my own torturer in a way because its the only thing i had. i think about my life and it became instead of a complicated full life i started thinking in terms of regrets and the present becomes just unbearable with nothing around you and the future is just fear. >> were you able to sleep? >> no, that was -- that was kind of how i dealt with it. everyone has different anxieties and different difficult...