| Al Hajj Abdu Ali Sharqawi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 May 1974 Ta'izz, Yemen |
| Arrested | February 2002 Karachi, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Yemen |
| Detained at | CIA's black sites Guantanamo |
| Alternate name | Riyadh the facilitator |
| ISN | 1457 |
| Status | Still held in Guantanamo |
Al Hajj Abdu Ali Sharqawi is a citizen of Yemen held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on 26 May 1974, in Ta'izz, Yemen.[1]
As of June 4, 2011, Abdu Ali al Haji Sharqawi has been held at Guantanamo for six years nine months.[2]
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Human Rights group Reprieve reports that flight records show two captives named Al-Sharqawi and Hassan bin Attash were flown from Kabul in September 2002. The two men were flown aboard N379P, a plane suspected to be part of the CIA's ghost fleet. Flight records showed that the plane originally departed from Diego Garcia, stopped in Morocco, Portugal, then Kabul before landing in Guantanamo Bay.[3]
The Guardian reports that one of the two men has been released from US custody.[3]
A differing report shows Sharqawi was arrested by the CIA in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002, and rendered to Jordan. He was transferred to Afghanistan in January 2004, where he was held at the CIA-run Dark Prison, then at Bagram Air Base, and then finally transferred to Guantanamo in September 2004.[4]
Al Haji Abdu Ali Sharqawi has written that after his capture, in February 2002, in Pakistan he spent two years in CIA custody in foreign interrogation centres, prior to his transfer to Guantanamo, in February 2004: [5][6] He writes that he spent 19 months in Amman, Jordan, and then five months in a secret interrogation centre. While in Jordan he had been handed over to the custody of Jordan's General Intelligence Department. He wrote:
- "I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years. When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten.
- "I was told that if I wanted to leave with permanent disability both mental and physical, that that could be arranged. They said they had all the facilities of Jordan to achieve that. I was told that I had to talk, I had to tell them everything."
In June 2011 a federal Judge ruled that the Obama administration can not use certain statements Sharqawi gave to justify his detention as these admissions were tainted by years of torture in Jordan and Afghanistan.[7]
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