Mohammed Al Amin
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Mohammed Al Amin is a citizen of Mauritania, alleged to have been captured and held in extrajudicial detention by the United States.[1]
Amnesty International asserts that Al Amin was arrested in April 2002, when he was 17 or 18 years old. By their account he was captured in Peshawar, Pakistan; spent time in Bagram, where brutal confessions forced a false confession from him; then transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Amnesty International reports that Al Amin was sexually abused in Bagram, and hung from the cieling by his arms for days at length. He said a guard would shake him awake every time he slumped. Amnesty says that months of abuse broke his will, and agreed to utter false confessions.
The Department of Defense has not released a list of the detainees held in Bagram. But there are only three Mauretanians on the list that the DoD claims is the complete list of Guantanamo detainees. Their names are Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz and Mohammad Lameen Sidi Mohammad.
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