Isa Khan (Guantanamo detainee 23)

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Isa Khan is a detainee in Guantánamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba. Human Rights Watch issued a "Letter to President General Pervez Musharraf" calling on the Bush administration to "release detainees who were Taliban soldiers or who have no connection to Al Qaeda, and who are not being prosecuted for war crimes or other serious international offenses." The letter referred to Khan as a "homeopathic doctor from Bannu District in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan who, American and Pakistani officials have privately admitted to Human Rights Watch, has no connection to the Taliban or Al-Qaeda."^[1]

Following his repatriation he was imprisoned and investigated by Pakistani security authorities.^{[citation needed]}

Khan has been granted a kind of extrajudicial conditional release by Pakistani officials. Khan's conditional release is not like parole, granted by judicial authorities, following a conviction during a trial, as neither the American or Pakistani authorities ever laid any criminal charges against him, or granted him a trial.^{[citation needed]}

According to an article in the January 7, 2006 edition of the Houston Chronicle Khan says he has considered committing suicide because the Pakistani government continues to monitor him.^[2]