Said Abasin

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Said Abasin is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 671. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in Khan o Khel ^[sic], Afghanistan.

[edit] Release

Said Abasin was one of eighteen Guantanamo captives repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22, 2003.^[2][3] All eighteen men were released by Afghan authorities four days later.

Abasin was the owner of a jitney taxi, captured when he was driving two passengers from Kabul to Khost.^[3] According to Xinhua Abasin was issued a "certificate of innocence" by the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior. Xinhua quoted Abasin:

• "It was a nightmare for me, I lost everything, my car, my work and my status in the society."
• "I have no relations with the Taliban, I even hate them, I don't know for what reason I was kept in prison for so long time,"

According to the Washington Post Abasin's father was "an airline official", who lobbied for his son's release.^[2] According to the New York Times, Abasin's father is Said Roshan, the director of management administration at the Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines.^[4]

The New York Times said Abasin was captured near Gardez, the captical of the Province of Paktia.^[4] The article quoted Taj Mohammed Wardak Taj Mohammad Wardak, who was then Governor of Paktia, that Abasin's arrest was a mistake.

[edit] References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b} "Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment", Washington Post, March 26, 2003. Retrieved on February 27.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Innocent Afghan wants US compensation for Guantanamo detention", Xinhua News, March 26, 2003. Retrieved on February 27.
4. ^ ^{a b} Carlotta Gall. "U.S. Returns 18 Guantánamo Detainees to Afghanistan", New York Times, March 24, 2003. Retrieved on February 27.