Abdul Satar Nafeesi

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Abdul Satar Nafeesi is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 11. The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on January 8, 1971, in Miachinu, Pakistan..

Contents 1 Identity 2 Detention 3 Release 4 References

[edit] Identity

Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a man named Abdul Sattar Nafeesi, from Mian Channu, was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.^[2]

[edit] Detention

According to Pakistan's the The Nation Nafeesi reported that he was tortured.^[3] He was quoted as saying: “The Americans removed our beards and have been spitting over the holy Book,”

[edit] Release

The Daily Times reported that Abdul Sattar Nafeesi was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.^[2] Accordint to Daily Times Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs, Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.

There is no record that Abdul Sattar Nafeesi's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b} "17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released", Daily Times, Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Retrieved on January 21, 2007.
3. ^ "17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed", The Nation (Pakistani newspaper), June 28, 2005. Retrieved on January 21, 2007.
4. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006