On January 16, 2010, the
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national secu ...
complied with a court order and made public a heavily redacted list of the detainees held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
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Detainees were initially held in primitive, temporary quarters, in what was originally called the
Bagram Collection Point
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 ...
, from late 2001.
Detainees were later moved to an indoor detention center until late 2009, when newly constructed facilities were opened.
The identity of most detainees held in Bagram remained classified until the publication of the first list in January 2010.
Dozens of the names on the list are identical to names of detainees who had been held in the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s, in
Cuba
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.
It was reported that three of the detainees in Bagram had formerly been held in Guantanamo, because they had the same
Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts.
History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
s. They were:
Gul Zaman
According to the United States US Department of Defense, Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following th ...
,
Khadan Kadri and
Hafizullah Shabaz Khau.
While some Guantanamo detainees were sent directly to Guantanamo from
CIA
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custody, most Guantanamo detainees spent some time in US Military custody at Bagram, or at the similar
Kandahar detention facility
Kandahar Central Jail, also known as Sarpuza Prison or Sarposa Prison, is a minimum security prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It has been historically used for the incarceration of common criminals of Kandahar Province. In the last two decades, the ...
. Close to one hundred detainees testified about their time in Bagram during one of their
OARDEC
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proceedings, or told reporters about their stay after their release.
Several dozen individuals reported being held in Bagram prior to the preparation of the official list published in January 2010. A few individuals report being released from Bagram, who aren't on the official list because they arrived there are the official list was prepared.
Guantanamo detainees who reported spending time in Bagram
Individuals who reported being held in Bagram prior to the publication of the first official list
The official list of Bagram detainees, as of September 22, 2009
See also
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Sayed Gulab
On January 15, 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a list of Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility that included the name Sayed Gulab.
There were 645 names on the list, which was dated Sep ...
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Pasta Khan
*
Raiz
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Mahajir Ziarahman
References
External links
*Human Rights First
Undue Process: An Examination of Detention and Trials of Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan in April 2009 (2009)
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Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees