Hanif Mohammed

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Hanif Mohammed is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba.^[1]

Mohammed's name was released on May 15, 2006.^[1] Mohammed's Guantanamo ID number is 305. Intelligence analysts estimated he was born in 1982 in Adda Shenal, Pakistan.

[edit] Identity

Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a man named Mohammed Hanif, from Lodhran, was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.^[2][3]

[edit] Release

The Daily Times reported that Mohammed Hanif was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.^[2][3] 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 Mohammed Hanif's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b} "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