Gholam Ruhani
Gholam Ruhani is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 3.
A widely distributed Associated Press story said that Ruhani was a clerk for the Taliban intelligence service.[2][dead link] AP quoted from Ruhani's testimony before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
- "The Taliban law was that young people had to join the Taliban, I had to join, but protested several times that I had an old father and I wanted to go back to my family. ... If I had not cooperated with the Taliban Intelligence service member, I would have been sent to the front lines. I was afraid I would be killed."
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Held aboard the USS Bataan
Former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef described being flown to the United States Navy's amphibious warfare vessel, the USS Bataan, for special interrogation.[3] Zaeef wrote that the cells were located six decks down, were only 1 meter by 2 meters. He wrote that the captives weren't allowed to speak with one another, but that he "eventually saw that Mullahs Fazal, Noori, Burhan, Wasseeq Sahib and Rohani were all among the other prisoners." Historian Andy Worthington, author of the The Guantanamo Files, identified Ruhani as one of the men Zaeef recognized. He identified Mullah Wasseeq as Abdul-Haq Wasiq, Mullah Noori as Norullah Noori and Mullah Fazal as Mohammed Fazil.
Combatant Status Review
Ruhani was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings.[5] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following allegations:[6]
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Ruhani's Personal Representative read a statement prepared by Ruhani.[7] Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Gholam Ruhani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 7–12</ref>
Allegations
Unlike most of the other transcripts from captive's Combatant Status Review Tribunal Ruhani's transcript did not record the allegations against him.
First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Gholam Ruhani's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 2 May 2005.[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
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The following primary factors favor release or transfer
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Transcript
Ruhani chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.[9]
Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Gholam Ruhani's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 22 March 2006.[10] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
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The following primary factors favor release or transfer
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Repatriation
A captive named "Ghulam Ruhani" was transferred to Afghan custody in "a U.S-sponsored lockup near Kabul.[4] An American sponsored wing of the Pul-e-charkhi prison was opened near Kabul, in mid 2007. This 316 cell prison was built at a cost of $30 million, to enable captives to be transferred from Guantanamo and the Bagram Theater internment facility.
According to an article by Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, Ghulam Ruhani had initially been held with David Hicks and John Walker Lindh, aboard a USN warship.[4] Ruhani was one of the first twenty captives transferred to Guantanamo on January 11, 2002, whose images were captured in a widely republished picture of kneeling captives.
On November 25, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of when Guantanamo captives were repatriated.[11] According to that list he was repatriated on December 12, 2007.
The Center for Constitutional Rights reports that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to Afghan custody in the American built and supervised wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul.[12]
References
- ↑ 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. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ Sketches of Guantanamo detainees-Part I, The State (newspaper), March 15, 2006
- ↑ Abdul Salam Zaeef (2010). "Torture and Abuse on the USS Bataan and in Bagram and Kandahar: An Excerpt from "My Life with the Taliban" by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef". Archived from the original on 2010-12-16. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2F2010%2F12%2F12%2Ftorture-and-abuse-on-the-uss-bataan-and-in-bagram-and-kandahar-an-excerpt-from-my-life-with-the-taliban-by-mullah-abdul-salam-zaeef%2F&date=2010-12-16. "We were not permitted to talk to each other, but could see one another while the food was handed to us. I eventually saw that Mullahs Fazal, Noori, Burhan, Wasseeq Sahib and Rohani were all among the other prisoners, but still we could not talk to each other."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Carol Rosenberg (2008-01-17). "7 of first Guantánamo captives now home". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/382503.html. Retrieved 2008-01-24. "A Taliban member from the first flight, Ghulam Ruhani, has just gone home -- to a U.S-sponsored lockup near Kabul. In the earliest days of the American-led coalition assault on Afghanistan, he was held on a U.S. Navy ship at sea, along with Hicks and American captive John Walker, now serving in a federal penitentiary in California for being a Taliban foot soldier."[dead link] mirror
- ↑ OARDEC, Index to Transcripts of Detainee Testimony and Documents Submitted by Detainees at Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo Between July 2004 and March 2005, September 4, 2007
- ↑ OARDEC (25 August 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Ruhani, Gholam". United States Department of Defense. pp. page 3. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000001-000100.pdf#3. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ↑ OARDEC (date redacted). "Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement, read by Personal Representative". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 7–12. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/Set_42_2728-2810.pdf#7. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ↑ OARDEC (2 May 2005). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ruhani, Gholam". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 54–55. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_001046-001160.pdf#54. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Gholam Ruhani's Administrative Review Board hearing - pages 152-163
- ↑ OARDEC (22 March 2006). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ruhani, Gholam". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 1–3. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_1-99.pdf#1. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ↑ "International Travel". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2008. http://ccrjustice.org/files/CCR_Annual_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-13. "CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei traveled to Kabul to follow the situation of Guantánamo prisoners being returned to Afghanistan. Since April 2007, all such prisoners have been sent to a U.S.-built detention facility within the Soviet era Pule-charkhi prison located outside Kabul." mirror
External links
- The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One) Andy Worthington
- "Ghulam Ruhani's Guantanamo detainee assessment.". Joint Task Force Guantanamo. 14 January 2007. http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/prisoner/3.html. Retrieved 2011-10-20. 16x16px Media related to File:ISN 00003, Ghulam Ruhani's Guantanamo detainee assessment.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
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