Mohammed Saghir
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Mohammed Saghir is an elderly Pakistan
i who was held by the U.S. military in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 143.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
counter-terrorism
analysts estimate he was born in 1952, in Khohestan, Pakistan.
When The Guardian
interviewd Saghir, following his release, on October 22, 2002, they estimated he was in his sixties.
Saghir was one the first four detainees to be released from Guantanamo.
He was the first Pakistani to be released from Guantanamo.
Saghir was released together with two even more elderly Afghan men, and one younger Afghan man.
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and abuse he reports he endured.
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His bracelet says: US 9PK 0001 43 DP
According to Le Monde
Mohmmed Sanghir said he had been in Afghanistan for three months prior to the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. He was Captured in Kunduz, a Taliban enclave in the North of Afghanistan, with 250 other people, who were loaded into a large shipping container, for the trip to General Dostum's prison at Sheberghan
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Sanghir said 50 of his companions died:
Mohammed Sanghir said he was held for 45 days in Sheberghan before he was first interrogated.
After several months in Afghanistan, where he was forcibly shaved, Sanghir said a female interrogator told him he was being sent to a better place. But, he reported, while still bound, he and his companions were thrown off the plane that took them to Guantanamo, and endured a brutal beating.
Mohammed Sanghir said he was interrogated twenty times while at Guantanamo:
Saghir was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
Mohammed Sagheer reports that when he was repatriated he found that his family had incurred debts of 1.2 million rupees in his absence—to search for his body, and to support themselves without his income.
Mohammed Sagheer acknowledged that he had traveled to Afghanistan with a group from the Tablighi Jamaat
, a non-political religious organization that American counter-terrorism analysts tie to terrorism.
Mohammed Sagheer told his McClatchy interviewer that he was captured in a stream of refugees, not on a battlefield.
He said he was shipped in a metal shipping container to General Dostum's Sherberghan prison.
He said he saw many other captives die during the months he spent there. He describe religious persecution in Guantanamo.
He participated in a hunger strike and was subjected to force-feeding
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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...
i who was held by the U.S. military in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 143.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the island. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command...
counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
analysts estimate he was born in 1952, in Khohestan, Pakistan.
When The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
interviewd Saghir, following his release, on October 22, 2002, they estimated he was in his sixties.
Saghir was one the first four detainees to be released from Guantanamo.
He was the first Pakistani to be released from Guantanamo.
Saghir was released together with two even more elderly Afghan men, and one younger Afghan man.
Guantanamo documents
There are no documents about Mr. Sanghir. He was released before the Combatant Status Review TribunalCombatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
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Suing the USA
Saghir is suing the United States for $10.4 million dollars for the tortureTorture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
and abuse he reports he endured.
Le Monde interview
Sanghir reportedly still wears the green ID bracelet issed to him in camp deltaCamp Delta
Camp Delta is a permanent detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay that replaced the temporary facilities of Camp X-Ray. Its first facilities were built between February 27 and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root...
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His bracelet says: US 9PK 0001 43 DP
According to Le Monde
Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...
Mohmmed Sanghir said he had been in Afghanistan for three months prior to the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. He was Captured in Kunduz, a Taliban enclave in the North of Afghanistan, with 250 other people, who were loaded into a large shipping container, for the trip to General Dostum's prison at Sheberghan
Sheberghan
Sheberghān or Shaburghān , also spelled Shebirghan and Shibarghan, is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.-Location:...
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Sanghir said 50 of his companions died:
Mohammed Sanghir said he was held for 45 days in Sheberghan before he was first interrogated.
After several months in Afghanistan, where he was forcibly shaved, Sanghir said a female interrogator told him he was being sent to a better place. But, he reported, while still bound, he and his companions were thrown off the plane that took them to Guantanamo, and endured a brutal beating.
Mohammed Sanghir said he was interrogated twenty times while at Guantanamo:
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.Saghir was one of the former captives who had an article profiling him.
Mohammed Sagheer reports that when he was repatriated he found that his family had incurred debts of 1.2 million rupees in his absence—to search for his body, and to support themselves without his income.
Mohammed Sagheer acknowledged that he had traveled to Afghanistan with a group from the Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat is a religious movement which was founded in 1926 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi in India. The movement primarily aims at Tablighi spiritual reformation by working at the grass roots level, reaching out to Muslims across all social and economic spectra to bring them closer to...
, a non-political religious organization that American counter-terrorism analysts tie to terrorism.
Mohammed Sagheer told his McClatchy interviewer that he was captured in a stream of refugees, not on a battlefield.
He said he was shipped in a metal shipping container to General Dostum's Sherberghan prison.
He said he saw many other captives die during the months he spent there. He describe religious persecution in Guantanamo.
He participated in a hunger strike and was subjected to force-feeding
Force-feeding
Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a person or an animal against their will. "Gavage" is supplying a nutritional substance by means of a small plastic tube passed through the nose or mouth into the stomach, not explicitly 'forcibly'....
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See also
- Mohammed Sadiq another elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo
- Haji Faiz Mohammed elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo