Fazal Mohammad

Mullah Fazal Mohammad is a citizen of Afghanistan and formerly a Taliban militia commander who was captured on November 25, 2001.[1][2][3][4]

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he was the Taliban militia's "commander in Afghanistan's southern region along the Pakistan border" in 2001.[1] He was one of the speakers who addressed an outdoor rally in support of the Taliban on November 9, 2001.[5][6]

According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Fazal Mohammed was captured in the Taliban office in Soldier Bazaar, Karachi, where officials seized nineteen other individuals, "relief goods, documents, and aid money".[2]

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on July 28, 2002, that thirty-year-old Fazal Mohammed was released from a US prison near Kandahar due to failing health. A Pakistani doctor who examined him said he had lost most of his vision. Fazal Mohammad claimed that he and other captives in Kandahar were subjected to sexual abuse and ferocious dogs. Their wounds and other medical conditions were left untreated, and they were fed starvation rations. Fazal Mohammad reported that the Kandahar prison had held approximately 300 other inmates, including former Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil, his spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen, and former Herat governor Maulawi Khairullah Khairkhawa.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Taliban prisoner claims sex abuse in Afghan jail". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. July 28, 2002. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "KARACHI: Taliban office sealed, 20 held". Dawn (newspaper). November 25, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  3. ↑ "Taleban prisoner cites abuse in Afghan jail". Khaleej Times. 2002. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  4. ↑ "Taliban prisoners allege torture, Afghan intelligence denies torturing." (PDF). United Nations Human Rights Commission UNCHR. July 27, 2002. pp. page 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  5. ↑ "KARACHI: Govt’s Afghan policy criticized". Dawn (newspaper). November 10, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  6. ↑ "KARACHI: Rally condemns US bombings". Dawn (newspaper). November 6, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
  7. ↑ "KANDAHAR Provincial Council Results". Wolesi Jirga & Provincial Council Elections Afghanistan 2005 Elections. JEMB. 2008-06-13. Archived from the original on 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2015-01-07.