:Swar Khan
{{short description|Afghan Guantanamo detainee}}
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| birth_place = Khost
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| date_of_release = 2006-10-11
| place_of_release= Afghanistan
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| citizenship = Afghanistan
| detained_at = Guantanamo
| id_number = 933
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| alias = Swatkhan Bahar
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| status = Repatriated
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Swar Khan, also known as Swatkhan Bahar (born c. 1970), is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
{{Cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| accessdate=2006-05-15
}}
Khan was a security official for the Hamid Karzai government prior to his capture. His boss told reporters that his capture was due to false denunciations from a jealous rival, whose sons worked as interpreters for the Americans, and that he had tried to tell the Americans he should be set free—without success.
Writ of habeas corpus
Khan had a writ of habeas corpus, Swat Khan v. Bush, filed on his behalf in Maryland in 2005.
{{Cite news
|url = http://home.gci.net/~fpda/Library/amicus_brief_re_guantanamo_detainees.pdf
|title = CORRECTED AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER HABEAS CORPUS COUNSEL IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS'/APPELLANTS' POSITION ON THE JURISDICTIONAL IMPACT OF THE DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005
|publisher = United States Department of Justice
|date = 2006-03-10
|accessdate = 2009-01-21
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081007015626/http://home.gci.net/~fpda/Library/amicus_brief_re_guantanamo_detainees.pdf
|archive-date = 2008-10-07
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He was represented by James Wyda and Martin Bahl, Federal Public Defenders in Maryland.
Repatriation
Khan was transferred to Afghanistan on October 11, 2006.{{cite news | url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/search/933 | work=The New York Times | title=Search Results for "933" - The Guantánamo Docket | url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012093121/http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/search/933 | archive-date=2012-10-12 }}
McClatchy interview
On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo detainees. Khan was one of the interviewees.
{{Cite news
|url = http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/42
|title = Guantanamo Inmate Database: Swatkahn Bahar
|publisher = McClatchy News Service
|author = Tom Lasseter
|date = June 15, 2008
|accessdate = 2008-06-15
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327222013/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/42
|archive-date = March 27, 2009
}}
Tom Lasseter, the lead McClatchy reporter, wrote that while his Tribunal President ruled that even though he had offered their phone numbers the witnesses he requested were not 'reasonably available' but McClatchy reporters "had little trouble" phoning one of them, his boss Mohammed Mustafa, at the Afghan Interior Ministry. Mustafa confirmed that Khan had been falsely denounced by a rival in the Afghan security services. {{Blockquote|''"There was no proof against him, nothing indicating he was involved with these sorts of activities," Mustafa said. "I went to the Americans' base and asked them to release him, but they wouldn't."}}
Khan spoke about being beaten in Bagram, and being hung from the ceiling by his wrists in an isolation cell.
Khan described attempting suicide twice in Guantanamo. Following his repatriation, the Governor of his province offered him another position as a police officer, but he declined.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files-website-extras-12-the-last-of-the-afghans-part-two/ The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (12) – The Last of the Afghans (Part Two)] Andy Worthington
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Category:Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States