After 9/11, thousands of non-Afghans were rounded up,” said Ahmed Rashid, a journalist, author and expert on Afghanistan and the region.
“The Bagram prison was a melting pot of innocent and guilty people from all over the region. They had even fewer rights than their counterparts in Guantanamo. The Bagram prisoners were not classified as prisoners of war, which would have guaranteed them certain rights. The offices of the Afghan president and the chief executive, the National Directorate of Security, and the Afghanistan Mission to the United Nations did not reply to Al Jazeera’s queries regarding the men. I worry that nearly two decades after 9/11, the US military continues to compromise its obligations under the Geneva Conventions to treat detainees humanely for the sake of expediency - and perhaps because they think no one is paying attention to these forgotten men.īy Wells Dixon, lawyer at the Center for Constitutional RightsĪfghanistan does not publicly provide information on its security detainees. There has been no word of him for years and recent efforts to ascertain his whereabouts proved fruitless. No proof or any details about any of these allegations have been provided. The Pentagon alleged he was a member of al-Qaeda with ties to the Afghan Taliban and related Afghan and Kashmiri groups. This would mean there might be just one US “war-on-terror” prisoner left, an Egyptian named Abu Ikhlas al-Masri, 55, ISN 21064. He is being held in a Kabul prison, according to the International Legal Foundation’s (ILF) Afghanistan country director Mohammad Waqar. The Yale clinic also fears that 38-year-old Musa Akhmadjanov, an Uzbek national, ISN 20370, might soon be rendered home too. Regardless, the men are likely now home, a place that they regarded less than their Afghan prison, the law clinic said. The clinic believes his brother Abdul Fatah, ISN 4058, was also forcibly sent back.Īfghanistan signed the Convention Against Torture, which stipulates that an individual must not be transferred to another country if there are “substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture”. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, who are working on his behalf. He was repatriated from Afghanistan to Tajikistan, where he faces almost-certain ill-treatment, according to legal advocates from the Allard K.
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The handful of prisoners left behind became the Afghans’ problem, one of whom was a Tajik man, Said Jamaluddin, Internment Serial Number 4057, innocent collateral in the US’ so-called “war on terror”. Before there was Guantanamo, there was Bagram, a US detention site near its giant airbase in Afghanistan, which came to be synonymous with torture and prisoner abuse.īut when the US relinquished control of the prison, now called Parwan Detention Facility, to Afghan security forces in December 2014, Washington renounced responsibility for the men once held there.
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