Rish Khor is a prison on an

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military base that former captives report was run by

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, writing in the '' Asia Times'', quoted

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, one of nine men from a mountain village named

Zaiwalat Zaiwalat, also Zaywalāyat or Zywlayt (Pashto: زیولایت) is a subdistrict and village of Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan. It lies along the Kabul-Behsud Highway, to the west of Kot-e Ashro and to the east of the town of ...

in Wardak who recounted being seized by Americans in a midnight raid in 2009, and then being taken to Rish Khor for interrogation. He said his American interrogators did not wear uniforms, and that he and his fellow villagers were handcuffed and locked in a steel shipping container, when not being interrogated. His interrogators accused the villagers of giving food and shelter to the Taliban. Even though Rehmatullah Muhammad says he was then forwarded to the United States'

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—where he was held for a further four months, Gopal reports the US military has denied all knowledge of a detention facility at Rish Khor. According to Gopal:

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