User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/not ready yet/Asadullah Jan
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| Asadullah Jan | |
|---|---|
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 47 |
| Charge(s) | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
| Status | Repatriated prior to having a CSR Tribunal. |
Asadullah Jan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 47.
On June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published an article on each of 66 former Guantanamo captives they interviewed.[2] Asadullah Jan was one of the captives interviewed.[3]
The article reported that Asadullah Jan was nervous, during the interview, because Pakistani security officials had warned him to keep his experiences while in detention to himself.[3] He told his interviewers security officials expected him to report in regularly. He said that after a Western aid group had met with him, in 2007, Pakistani intelligence officials had interrogated him for four days.
Asadullah Jan told his interviewers that he was only sixteen when he was captured in Afghanistan.[3] He claimed he had been in Afghanistan to visit relatives.
Asadullah Jan reported that his first CIA interrogators, while he was still in Pakistani custody, has asked him if he was one of Osama bin Laden's sons.[3]
Asadullah Jan reported brutal beating from American guards while he was at the Kandahar detention facility.[3] He reported he was made to sleep on the bare dirt, and the he witnessed GIs desecrating Korans there. He reported that prior to being shipped to Guantanamo American guards had shaved captives' hair, beards, eyebrows and eyelashes. He reported that he dropped from 132 pounds to 100 pounds due to the harsh conditions at Kandahar.
Asadullah Jan reported witnessing another captive, former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan being beaten when he was engaging in his daily prayers in Kandahar[4]:
“One time, Abdul Salam was leading prayers. A guard came over and started talking with him. Abdul Salam said, ‘Come back in 10 minutes; we’re praying.’ The guard called on his radio and said that Abdul Salam wouldn’t talk. A group of soldiers came down, and in the middle of prayers they came behind him, put their boots on his neck and beat him.”
In Guantanamo military spokesmen report that guards are trained to respect the captives religious observances, and that special signs are put up to warn guards to be quiet during the scheduled prayer times.
References
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OARDEC (May 15 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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Tom Lasseter (June 15 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 1". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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Tom Lasseter (June 15 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Asadullah Jan". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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Tom Lasseter (June 14 2008). "Former Taliban ambassador, free from Guantanamo, is under close watch". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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