Amanatullah Ali
Amanatullah Ali is a citizen of Pakistan, captured by United Kingdom forces in Iraq, who was then handed over to the United States, who has held him in extrajudicial detention in Afghanistan.[1] [2] [2]
David Rose of the Daily Mail, interviewed Amanatullah's family, including elder brother, Ashfaq, a policeman in their native Punjab. [3] Ashfaq said that Amanatullah disappeared on February 22, 2004, while he was on a business trip to neighbouring Iran, where he had travelled to sell rice from the family's farm. His family learned he was being held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility more than a year later.
Amanatullah Ali has tried to win his freedom through the US justice system.[2] [2]
According to historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, although the DoD published a list of the names of 645 captives held in Bagram in September 22, 2010, neither Amanatullah Ali, or fellow Pakistani Yunus Rahmatullah, were named on that list.[4]
References
- ↑ Paddy McGuffin (2012-07-01). "Hoon may face war crime rap". Morning Star. Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningstaronline.co.uk%2Findex.php%2Fcontent%2Fview%2Ffull%2F120853&date=2012-10-26. "Both men have been held for eight years without charge or trial at the infamous Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan after being arrested by British forces in Iraq and handed to the US in 2004."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Andy Worthington (2012-01-31). "Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners from Bagram". Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2F2012%2F01%2F31%2Fobama-considers-repatriating-foreign-prisoners-from-bagram%2F&date=2012-10-26. "The Post noted that another Pakistani, Amanatullah Ali, who was also picked up by British forces in Iraq, is seeking his release through the US courts,"
- ↑ . Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fhome%2Fmoslive%2Farticle-1232665%2FWhy-Bagram-Guantanamos-evil-twin-Britains-dirty-secret.html&date=2012-10-26.
- ↑ Andy Worthington (2010-01-26). "Bagram: The First Ever Prisoner List (The Annotated Version)". Archived from the original on 2010-01-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2Fbagram-the-first-ever-prisoner-list-the-annotated-version%2F&date=2010-01-27. "Salah Din was identified by the legal action charity Reprieve as Salahuddin and was apparently seized by British forces and transferred to Bagram with another Pakistani, a rice merchant named Amanatullah Ali. Reprieve later learned that Salahuddin was a nickname, and that his real name is Yunus Rahmatullah. However, no one of either name is on the Bagram prisoner list, even though it is clear, from letters received by his family, that Amanatullah Ali is being held at Bagram, and also that Yunis Rahmatullah (Salahuddin) is held there as well."
