Deleted:Abdul Ghaffar (Guantanamo detainee 1032)
- There are multiple individuals named Abdul Ghaffar.
Abdul Ghaffar is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to an Afghan prison.[1][2]
He is listed as an "enemy combatant" by US Department of Defense, as of 2006.[2] Abdul Ghaffar's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 1032. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1958, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Abdul Ghafaar was captured in Afghanistan in April 2003 and he was transferred to an Afghan prison on December 12, 2007, without being charged.[3][1]
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Combatant Status Review
Ghaffar was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings.[4] A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following allegations:[5]
- a The detainee is associated with the Taliban
- On 27 March 2003, a Red Cross convoy was attacked in Afghanistan, and a member of the Red Cross was murdered on the scene
- Prior to the 27 March 2003, incident authorities in the Shahawali Kot area of Afghanistan were informed of a group operating in the area with the intent to do harm to westerners.
- The detainee lives in Shahawali Kot, Afghanistan.
- The detainee is suspected of being a bodyguard of the individual responsible for the killing of Red Cross personnel.
- On 03 April [20]03, individual name Abdul Ghaffar was known to possesses a satellite phone.
- The detainee was captured in a creek bed by U.S. forces on 21 April [20]03.
Ghaffar chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.[6]
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following factors favor release or transfer
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Transfer to an Afghan prison
On November 25, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of when Guantanamo captives were repatriated.[7] 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.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "International Travel". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2008. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. 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
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ↑ "Abdul Ghafaar - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/1032-abdul-ghafaar.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Ghaffar'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 25-32
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abdul Ghaffar's Administrative Review Board hearing - pages 13-25 - August 2005
- ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased". Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
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- Guantanamo detainees known to have been transferred and never released
- Block D, Pul-e-Charkhi prison
- Year of birth uncertain