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• Hussein Almerfedi, a Yemeni, still at Guantanamo. He alleged that he was ‘kidnapped’
in the Islamic Republic of Iran and held for a total of 14 months in three prisons in
Afghanistan, “two under Afghani control and one under US control [Bagram]”.242
• Tawfiq al-Bihani, a Yemeni, still at Guantanamo. Allegedly, after deciding to flee
Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks, he was “arrested by Iranian Police in Zahedan, Iran for
entering the country without a visa” and held “in various prisons in Iran and
Afghanistan, for approximately one year in total.243
• Rafiq Alhami, a Tunisian still held at Guantanamo, who alleged that “I was in an
Afghan prison but the interrogation was done by Americans. I was there for about a
one-year period, transferring from one place to another. I was tortured for about three
months in a prison called the Prison of Darkness or the Dark Prison”.244 And further:
“Back in Afghanistan I would be tortured. I was threatened. I was left out all night in
the cold. It was different here. I spent two months with no water, no shoes, in darkness
and in the cold. There was darkness and loud music for two months. I was not allowed
to pray. I was not allowed to fast during Ramadan. These things are documented. You
have them”.245
• Walid al-Qadasi,246 who was rendered to the “dark prison” and held in other prisons in
Afghanistan, together with four other men whose whereabouts are unknown.247 An
allegation letter was sent in November 2005 by the Special Rapporteur on torture in
relation to Walid Muhammad Shahir Muhammad al-Qadasi, a Yemeni citizen,
indicating that the following allegations had been received:
242
Combatant Status Review Tribunal, set 28. Available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_28_1949-2000.pdf, pp. 31-40.
243
Administrative Review Board Round 2 Factors 799-899. Available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_799-899.pdf, pp. 66-69.
244
Administrative Review Board, set 3, pp. 147-61. Available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_1_395-584.pdf.
245
Combatant Status Review Tribunal, set 34. Available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_34_2426-2457.pdf, pp. 20-22.
246
See E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras. 1 and 527, and the response from the Government of the
United States (A/HRC/10/44/Add.4) para. 252. See also the report of the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention, opinion No. 47/2005 (A/HRC/4/40/Add.1).
247
In addition, Aminullah Tukhi explained that 10 prisoners in total - six Arabs, two Afghans,
an Uzbek and a Tajik - had been delivered to the Americans. Although six of these men are
accounted for above, it is not known what happened to the other four: an Arab, an Afghan, the
Uzbek and the Tajik. Combatant Status Review Tribunal, set 42, available from
www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/Set_42_2728-2810.pdf, pp. 71-77.
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