| Abdul Matin | |
|---|---|
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| Alternate name | Abdul Mateen, Shah Zada |
| ISN | 1002 |
| Charge(s) | No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) |
| Status | Repatriated |
| Occupation | Science teacher |
Abdul Matin is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to an Afghan prison.[1]
One reason Matin is notable is that one of the reasons he was detained was that he was captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.[2]
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Abdul Matin testified that he learned that Guantanamo contained another captive who the Americans called Shahzada, who had already been released. In fact the USA called two other Guantanamo captives Shahzada, and they had released both of them.[3][4][5][6] According to Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a DoD spokesman, the first Guantanamo captive the USA called Shahzada, whose real name was Mohammed Yusif Yaqub, was really an unrepentant Taliban commander, who returned to the battlefield in 2003, and was killed in combat on 7 May 2004. Gordan claimed Mohammed Yusif Yaqub really had been a Taliban commander all along, who had fooled American intelligence analysts into releasing him.
The Center for Constitutional Rights reports that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to Afghan custody in the American built and supervised wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul.[1]
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