Deleted:Tarek Dergoul
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Tarek Dergoul is a citizen of the United Kingdom who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 534.
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Background
Dergoul had been employed as a care worker, in the UK, before traveling to Afghanistan, in 2001, where he was handed over to US forces, and ultimately transferred to Guantanamo.[2] He was one of the first captives to be repatriated -- on March 9, 2004.
Dergoul said injuries from his time in US custody prevented him working, after his return to the UK.
Dergoul sued the UK government, claiming its security organizations MI5 and MI6 had been complicit in the interrogations he underwent while in US custody, that violated both the USA's and the UK's obligations under international human rights agreement.
Repatration
Dergoul, and four other UK citizens, Jamal al Harith, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul were repatriated in March 2004.[2] After their repatriation, all five men were taken into UK custody, under its Terrorism Act.[3] But all five men were released less than two days after their arrival, when UK authorities were satisfied there were no grounds for their detention. Four other UK citizens, and nine nationals of other nations, who had long term permission to reside in the UK, remained in US custody in Guantanamo.[4]
According to the Sydney Morning Herald the United States and the United Kingdom spent five months negotiating, before the five men were repatriated.[2]
2008 McClatchy interview
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.[5] Tarek Dergoul was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.[6]
Tarek Dergoul acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan following the al Qaeda's attacks of September 11, 2001.[6] He said he regarded the flight of refugees as a business opportunity. He and some other associates thought they could buy property from fleeing refugees at bargain prices, and then re-sell them when order was restored. However, he said, his companions were killed, and he was injured, when a shell landed in a villa they were about to buy.
Tarek Dergoul told his McClatchy interviewer he was buried in the rubble, and woke in hospital, to find himself under an armed guard.[6] His left arm was amputated. After some time in Afghan custody he was sold to the Americans for a $5000 bounty, and transferred to the Bagram Theater internment facility.
Tarek Dergoul reported that when he arrived in Bagram medical treatment was withheld from him, and then, when a doctor oversaw the amputation of one of his toes, pain medication was withheld from him, so that he would still be able to feel pain, when he was next interrogated.[6]
He claimed that he was taken into a medical room where a medical trainee was being instructed in how to amputate his toe. He claimed that he wasn't given anesthesia for the operation. Instead, he said, he was given just enough painkiller to stop the pain from being overwhelming, but not so much that he couldn't answer interrogators when they started asking questions again.
Tarek Dergoul reports that he only became religious during his detention.[6]
Tarek Dergoul was repatriated to the United Kingdom in 2004.[6] He stated that due to his wounds he has not been able to work.
See also
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". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "British police release Guantanamo returnee". Sydney Morning Herald. 2004-03-11. Archived from the original on 2004-03-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20040320040546/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/11/1078594481626.html. "One of four British Muslims being questioned by anti-terrorist police in London, a day after they were repatriated from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, has been released without charge, British police said today. The freed man was named as Tarek Dergoul, 26, a former care worker from east London."
- ↑ Sandra Laville, Nick Britten, Catriona Davies (2004-03-11). "Guantanamo four freed without charge after families protest". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2F1456509%2FGuantanamo-four-freed-without-charge-after-families-protest.html&date=2013-04-21. "The men had been held under the Terrorism Act at Paddington Green station in west London after they were flown to Britain on Tuesday by the RAF. They were freed after anti-terrorist police, working with MI5 and the Crown Prosecution Service, agreed that there were no grounds for their detention."
- ↑ David Rennie (2004-03-08). "Guantanamo Four are too dangerous to free, says US". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworldnews%2Fnorthamerica%2Fusa%2F1456335%2FGuantanamo-Four-are-too-dangerous-to-free-says-US.html&date=2013-04-21. "The four Britons who will continue to be held at Guantanamo Bay are Feroz Abbasi, 23, from Croydon, south London; Moazzam Begg, 36, from Birmingham; Richard Belmar, 23, from London; and Martin Mubanga, 29, also from London. Five others are expected to be freed this week."
- ↑ Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 1". Miami Herald. http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/. Retrieved 2008-06-16. mirror
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Tarek Dergoul". Miami Herald. http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/33. Retrieved 2008-06-16. mirror
External links
- Former Guantanamo Bay inmate speaks out Hackney Post 24 March 2009
- Guantanamo 'torture' vicitm sues MI5 and MI6 Guantanamo 'torture' vicitm sues MI5 and MI6 Daily Mail September 12, 2007
- US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp The Observer May 16, 2004
- 'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me' The Observer May 16, 2004
- My torture hell in Camp Delta cage Evening Standard August 3, 2004
- Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues Andy Worthington
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