AI: USA: Who are the Guantánamo detainees?

March 16, 2007

Number 21 in Amnesty International’s case sheets on the individual detainees at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba. This case concerns Sudanese national Adel Hamad who was taken at gunpoint from his home in Peshawar, Pakistan on 18 July 2002. Pakistani agents, led by a US agent, took him to a Pakistani prison where he was held for six and a half months before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay via Afghanistan.

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