Hafiz Ihsan Saeed

Hafiz Ihsan Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number was 98. The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 23, 1978, in Lahore, Pakistan.

Capture and detention

According to Pakistan's The Nation Saeed was first captured by Abdul Rashid Dostam who held him under brutal conditions.^[2] Dostam is widely reported to have sold hundreds of Afghans and Arab expatriates to American intelligence in return for bounties.

According to The Daily Times:^[3]

• Saeed's father died while he was in detention. The Daily Times quoted Saeed: “I was quite upset when I heard the news (of my father’s death) but I will sacrifice anything for Islam,”
• Saeed said he was ready to “go for Jihad again.”
• Saeed said he was tortured at Guantanamo.
• Saeed and two other of the released men agreed: “The authorities at Guantanamo Bay desecrated our holy book to humiliate us. However, we were given some religious freedom after the Red Cross’s intervention,”

Release

The Daily Times reported that Saeed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28, 2005.^[2][3] According to 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 Saeed's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[4]

References

1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b} "17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed". The Nation (Pakistani newspaper). June 28, 2005. http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released". Daily Times. June 28, 2005. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
4. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006