Ejaz Ahmad Khan is a citizen of
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
who was held in
extrajudicial detention
Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...
in the United States's
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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He was repatriated on 11 November 2003.
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McClatchy News Service interview
On 15 June 2008, the
McClatchy News Service
The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law and based in Sacramento, California. It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and ...
published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.
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was one of three former captives who had an article profiling him.
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Khan described being held in a crowded shipping container by
General Dostum
Abdul Rashid Dostum ( ; prs, عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: , Uzbek Cyrillic: , ; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish- ...
in
Sherberghan
Sheberghān or Shaburghān ( Uzbek, Pashto, fa, شبرغان), also spelled ''Shebirghan'' and ''Shibarghan'', is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.
The city of Sheberghan has a population of 175,599. It has four ...
, where many other captives died.
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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.
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References
External links
The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (7) – From Sheberghan to Kandahar
Andy Worthington
McClatchy News Service – video
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Pakistani extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Living people
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Year of birth missing (living people)