Abdul Wahid was a citizen of Afghanistan whose autopsy was held in the United States's Bagram Theater detention facility. He was beaten to death on November 6, 2003. Army pathologist Colonel Kathleen Ingwersen concluded his death was a homicide. She wrote on his death certificate that he died from "Multiple

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complicated by probable rhabdomyolysis xtensive crush injuries of the muscles" Abdul Wahid's cousin

Abdul Haleem ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحليم) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥalīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gives rise ...

reported that he was also apprehended, and tortured, on November 3, 2003. He and Abdul Wahid's father attributed the abuse to Afghan soldiers, but said American soldiers were aware of the abuse, and didn't intervene. Abdul Wahid's father said his heavily scarred body was returned to his family two months after his capture, together with a letter from US authorities. According to the '' Associated Press'': Human rights worker John Sifton, of Human Rights Watch, told the ''Associated Press'' that corrupt security officials in Afghanistan routinely captured men, and threatened to hand them over to the US in return for a

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, unless they paid a bribe. On January 16, 2010, the Department of Defense was forced to publish the names of the 645 captives held in the

Bagram Theater Internment Facility The Parwan Detention Facility (also called Detention Facility in Parwan or Bagram prison) is Afghanistan's main military prison. Situated next to the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan, the prison was built by the U.S. during t ...

. One of the individuals on the list was named "Abdul Wahid".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wahid, Abdul Year of birth missing 2003 deaths Deaths by beating Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Afghan murder victims People murdered in Afghanistan Extrajudicial prisoners killed while in United States custody Afghan people who died in prison custody