Sultan Ahmad (Guantanamo detainee 842)

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Sultan Ahmad is a citizen of Pakistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 842. The US Department of Defense reports that Sultan Ahmad was born on November 1, 1984, in Sargodha, Pakistan.

Main article: minors detained in the global war on terror

[edit] Identity

Pakistan's Daily Times reports that a man named Sultan Ahmed was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.[2][3]

[edit] Release

The Daily Times reported that Sultan Ahmed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.[2] According to the 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 Sultan Ahmed'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. 
  3. ^ "17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed", The Nation (Pakistani newspaper), June 28, 2005. Retrieved on January 21. 
  4. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006