Hajji Nasrat Khan is an elderly citizen of
Afghanistan best known for the more than three years he spent in the
United States 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. The
United States Department of Defense believed that he was an
enemy combatant and assigned him the
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 ...
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Khan has been crippled since 1986.
In April 2006, Khan was 80 years old.
[My Guantanamo Diary: Face to Face With the War on Terrorism]
'' Washington Post'', April 29, 2006
He was the oldest prisoner remaining at Guantanamo by the time he was released (August, 2006
[Three years on, Guantánamo detainee, 78, goes home]
'' The Guardian'', September 22, 2006).
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Nasrat Khan was among the 60% of prisoners who chose to participate in his tribunal hearings.
Summary of Evidence memo
A
Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hajji Nasrat Khan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 5 October 2004.
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The memo listed the following allegations against him:
Transcript
Khan chose to participate in his
Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
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Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual
Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat - or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
Khan chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
[Summarized transcript (.pdf)]
, from Hajji Nasrat Khan's '' Administrative Review Board hearing'' - pages 257-265
''The following primary factors favor continued detention''
''The following primary factor favor release or transfer''
Witness at other Tribunals
Khan was interviewed, and provided a statement for
Hamidullah's Tribunal.
[Summarized transcripts (.pdf)]
, from Hamidullah's'' Combatant Status Review Tribunal'' - pages 89-101
He confirmed that Hamidullah had only been a teenager when he had been in the HiG, and that he had been a deserter.
Habeas Corpus
Philadelphia lawyer
Peter M. Ryan
is representing Khan in his
habeas corpus motion.
Khan's age
United Kingdom newspaper,
The Guardian, republished an
Associated Press article, devoted to Khan, which speculated about his age.
[Diverse Group of Detainees at Guantanamo]
'' The Guardian'', May 16, 2006
The article says that the United States estimates Khan's age as 71. It says that Khan doesn't know his age for sure, but believes he is about 78. The article states that Khan requires a walker.
Return to Afghanistan
Khan was reported to have been one of five Afghans returned to Afghanistan on August 28, 2006.
[Guantánamo's eldest detainee goes home]
''Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a List of communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, city in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County and the M ...
'', August 28, 2006[71-year-old Gitmo detainee released]
'' Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', August 28, 2006
Peter M. Ryan, one of Khan's lawyers, learned of his return by e-mail from the DoD, on the following weekend,
and never did learn the reason for Khan's detention.
[Afghan detainee, 71, released by U.S.]
'' The Philadelphia Inquirer'', August 28, 2006
Ryan initially expressed concerns whether Khan could expect the Afghan authorities to free him, upon his return, or whether they would put him in the Afghan prison system.,
Lawyer: Guantanamo's oldest detainee returned to Afghanistan
,'' KPLC'' but Khan did not ultimately face arrest upon his return to Afghanistan.
Guantanamo Medical records
On 16 March 2007, the Department of Defense published medical records for the detainees.[
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See also
* Hiztullah Yar Nasrat
According to the United States 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 the US and allies' invasion ...
his son formerly detained at Guantanamo
* Mohammed Sadiq another elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo
* Haji Faiz Mohammed
Haji Faiz Mohammed ( ar, محمد حجي فز) is an elderly Afghani man who was held and interrogated by the United States military in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Mohammed spent about eight months in Guantanamo and was repatria ...
elderly prisoner held at Guantanamo
References
External links
America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
McClatchy June 15, 2008
Nusrat Khan
McClatchy
Guantánamo: The Stories of Three Innocent Jordanians and an Afghan, Just Released
Andy Worthington
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Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Possibly living people
1920s births
Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Pashtun people