Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah

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Solaiman Dur Mohammed Shah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 119; American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1977, in Panjwaee, Afghanistan Panjwaee, Afghanistan.

[edit] Identity

The Washington Post reported that a captive named Sulaiman Shah was one of eighteen men repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22, 2003, and released with a certificate of innocence by Afghan authorities on March 26, 2003.^[2]

The name Sulaiman Shah is not listed on the official list of all Guantanamo captives that the Department of Defense released on May 15, 2006.^[1]

Main article: Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list

Sulaiman Shah, and the other released captives, were given a one set of western clothes, including running shoes, and a knapsack to hold their medical records..^[2] Most of the men needed to call on charity in order to travel home.

Sulaiman Shah, who described himself as a "businessman", said he was captured for no reason. He said he was generally treated well, but added: "I was in such a small [cell] and couldn't go outside for many days, My toilet was next to my bed, and it was a very bad way to live."

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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.