Hikmat Nafi Shaukat

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Hikmat Shaukat was an medical doctor and refugee from Iraq, living in Quetta, Pakistan, in 2002.[1][2] He was rounded up, in a night raid, by a mixed force of Pakistan and American security officials, in October 2002.

CIA records show he was one of their first secret captives, and one of the first subjected to the "extended interrogation techniques" critics characterize as torture. Some of those subjected to these techniques had those techniques specifically authorized by members of the George W. Bush cabinet. But Shaukat was not one of those.

Shaukat apparently insisted he was an innocent man, and his CIA captors eventually came to believe him. But, since his innocence was only determined through the use of "extended interrogation techniques", they do not classifiy him as one of the captives who was "wrongfully detained" - ie they interpreted their initial suspicions as sufficient to classify him as properly detained.

His neighbours and associates insisted he was a moderate muslim, who worked in a nearby charity hospital, and had never shown any sign of sympathy for Islamic militancy, and that his apprehension must have been a case of mistaken identity, or that he lived near suspected militants. CIA records seem to back up the supposition that he was apprehended solely for living near suspected militants.


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References

  1. "Police asked to produce Iraqi doctor in court". Dawn. 2002-12-13. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20201001200322/https://www.dawn.com/news/72403/police-asked-to-produce-iraqi-doctor-in-court. Retrieved 2021-03-10. "In her application she said that on Oct 16 last, 13 persons, including three Americans and nine Pakistanis, broke into her house late in the night and took away her husband with them." 
  2. Shahzada Zulfiqar (March 2003). "The silence of the Mullahs". Newsline magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20200918135848/https://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/silence-of-the-mullahs/. Retrieved 2021-03-10. "Recalling that fateful night, Mustafa says the nightmare began while the family was asleep and were woken by loud pounding at the main gate. When his father opened the door, dozens of police commandos “pounced upon us like an enemy army.” His father, an Iraqi doctor, Shaukat Nafay, who has been running a Saudi-funded hospital for women and children as its medical superintendent for the last 10 years, was picked up on suspicion of treating Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders." 
  3. Swati Shara (2014-12-09). "List of the 119 prisoners detained in CIA’s secret prisons program". Boston Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/12/09/list-prisoners-detained-cia-secret-prisons-program/svvGqaIinuCryOtTw67CFK/story.html. Retrieved 2014-12-11. 
  4. "Skipped Internment Serial Numbers". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/reports/skipped-numbers-folder/skipped-internment-serial-numbers. Retrieved 2014-12-11. "ISN 1462: Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Qahtani. He is "reported to be" a mid-level al-Qaida fighter. He was imprisoned at Bagram, from which he escaped on July 11, 2005, "resumed his ACM activities", but was recaptured on November 5, 2006 (Source: Wikieaked DOB for ISN 1052)." 
  5. Emma Roller, Rebecca Nelson (2014-12-10). "What CIA Interrogators Did To 17 Detainees Without Approval". National Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-12-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20141211020306/http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/what-cia-interrogators-did-to-17-detainees-without-approval-20141210. Retrieved 2014-12-10. "You probably haven't heard many of these names before. But they are important, both in terms of the terrorist plots they either planned or executed, and in how the U.S. government treated them once they became prisoners, according to the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report." 
  6. Clara Gutteridge (2012-07-26). "How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/article/168621/how-us-rendered-tortured-and-discarded-one-innocent-man#. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "In fall 2009, I found myself in a Tanzanian hotel lobby, sitting across from Suleiman Abdallah, a lanky man with a goofy smile and a broken tooth. Over the next few days, he would describe in excruciating detail how he had been captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to American officials, who had him rendered via Kenya and Djibouti to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture. Imprisoned in three different US facilities, Suleiman had been unceremoniously released from Bagram Air Force Base the year before, with a piece of paper confirming his detention as well as his innocence. By the time I met him, he was a free man, living with his mother and attempting to rebuild his life."