Ejaz Ahmad Khan
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Ejaz Ahmad Khan is a citizen of Pakistan
who was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
.
He was repatriated on 11 November 2003.
Khan
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
Khan described being held in a crowded shipping container by General Dostum in Sherberghan, where many other captives died.
He acknowledged to the McClatchy interviewer that he traveled from Pakistan to Afghanistan to fight US forces.
He was detained by Pakistani security officials for ten months after his repatriation.
According to the McClatchy article he was one of many fighters who surrendered to General Dostum's forces in November 2001.
He described brutal beatings while both in Dostum's custody and in American custody in Afghanistan. He described personally seeing Koran desecration.
Khan reported that he had great difficulty coping with his detention.
He reported he was experiencing difficulty coping with his release, and frequently lost his temper.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
who was held in extrajudicial detention
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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He was repatriated on 11 November 2003.
McClatchy News Service interview
On 15 June 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.Khan
was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
Khan described being held in a crowded shipping container by General Dostum in Sherberghan, where many other captives died.
He acknowledged to the McClatchy interviewer that he traveled from Pakistan to Afghanistan to fight US forces.
He was detained by Pakistani security officials for ten months after his repatriation.
According to the McClatchy article he was one of many fighters who surrendered to General Dostum's forces in November 2001.
He described brutal beatings while both in Dostum's custody and in American custody in Afghanistan. He described personally seeing Koran desecration.
Khan reported that he had great difficulty coping with his detention.
He reported he was experiencing difficulty coping with his release, and frequently lost his temper.