User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Jan Mohammed
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Jan Mohammed is an Afghani man was held in extrajudicial detention in United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Mohammed was repatriated in October 2002, together with three elderly men, two Afghanis and a Pakistani.[1] The men described being chained, for hours, during their interrogations.
Mohammed said that he had been forcibly conscripted into the Taliban army, at gunpoint.[2][3] Some press reports stated that Mohammed, and the three elderly detainees released at the same time he was, were the first detainees to be released. But the Washington Post reported that a mentally ill detainee was repatriated in May 2002.
Mohammed said he recognized some high level Taliban leaders in the camp, such as Zaeff Mohammed, a former ambassador. He said that the detainees were shackled every time they were removed from their cells.
Mohammed's companions said that they had no contact with their family during their American custody. Mohammed said he received a letter from his family just three days before his release.[3]
[edit] Not listed
After a long legal battle the Department of Defense complied with a court order from US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff, to release the names of all the Guantanamo detainees. The DoD finally released what they described as a full list of all the captives who had been detained, in military custody, in Guantanamo. Jan Mohammed is one of the captives known to have been detained in Guantanamo whose name is missing from that list.
[edit] See also
- Mohammed Saghir
- Mohammed Hagi Fiz
- Mohammed Sadiq
[edit] References
- ^ Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo, CBS News, October 29, 2002
- ^ Former Guantanamo Prisoners Say They Weren't Tortured, Washington Post, October 29, 2002
- ^ a b Guantanamo prisoners tell of confinement & interrogations, The Daily Iowan, October 30 2002
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