A/HRC/13/42* page 72 Samer Helmi al-Barq, seized in Pakistan on 15 July 2003, who was kept for three months in a secret prison outside Pakistan, before being transferred to Jordan on 26 October 2003. He was released on bail in January 2008.277 2. Egypt 146. At least seven men were rendered to Egypt by the CIA between September 2001 and February 2003, and another was rendered to Egypt from the Syrian Arab Republic, where he had been seized at the request of the Canadian authorities: • Abdel Hakim Khafargy, an Egyptian-born, Munich-based publisher, was allegedly seized in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 24 September 2001, and rendered to Egypt a few weeks later, after being held by United States forces at its base in Tuzla. He was returned to Germany two months later.278 • Mamdouh Habib, an Australian seized in Pakistan in November 2001, was rendered to Egypt three weeks later and held for six months. Transferred to Guantanamo in June 2002, he was released in January 2005. He claims to have been tortured throughout his time in Egypt.279 • Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni, a Pakistani-Egyptian national, was seized by the Indonesian authorities in Jakarta on 9 January 2002, flown first to Egypt and then to Bagram, where he was held for 11 months. He arrived in Guantanamo on 23 March 2003 and was released in August 2008. Mr. Madni indicated that, during his Jordan for an unspecified amount of time, as was Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, seized in Afghanistan in late 2001, who was subjected to multiple renditions. See also para. 146. 277 Amnesty International, submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, February 2009, available from http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/JO/AI_JOR_UPR_S4_2009_AmnestyI nternational_upr.pdf. 278 Cageprisoners, “Citizens no more: ‘war on terror’ Abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, July 2007. Available from www.cageprisoners.com/citizensnomore.pdf. 279 Megan Stack and Bob Drogin, “The torment of a terror suspect”, The Age, 15 January 2005, available from www.theage.com.au/news/War-on-Terror/The-torment-of-a-terrorsuspect/2005/01/14/1105582713578.html. For recent developments, see also “Habib case raises complex issues”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 2009, available from http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/habib-case-raises-complex-issues-20090914fnrt.html.