Suleiman Abdullah Salim
Suleiman Abdullah Salim is a citizen of Tanzania who was held in extrajudicial detention, for five years, in secret CIA black sites. Salim was one of the individuals the United States Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry into the CIA's use of torture identified as having been subjected to the most brutal torture. According to James Risen, in the New York Times CIA interrogators tortured him, even though he was a black African man, and the Suleiman Abdullah Salim they had intended to capture was an ethnically Arab man from Yemen.
Life prior to capture
Salim was born in Stone Town, Tanzania.
He took his first job, as a fisherman, when he was a young teenager. He worked in a clothing store, in Dar es Salaam. He later worked in Mombasa, as a water porter. He had to leave a job as a harbor pilot, in Kismayu, Somalia, due to resentment from the local warlord's militiamen. In 2003 he was working as a driver for an employee of Mohammed Dheere, a Somali warlord. Dheere's men accused him of owing Dheere money, and when he refused to be shaken down, they handed him over the CIA.
CIA custody
Post-release
On October 13, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the psychologists who designed the interrogations, James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, on behalf of Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and the estate of Gul Rahman.{{cite news |first=Jenna |last=McLaughlin |title=Former U.S. Detainees Sue Psychologists Responsible For CIA Torture Program |url=https://theintercept.com/2015/10/13/former-u-s-detainees-sue-psychologists-responsible-for-cia-torture-program/ |work=Intercept |date=October 13, 2015 |access-date=March 30, 2016}} On July 28, 2017, U.S. District Judge Justin Lowe Quackenbush denied both parties motions for summary judgment, noted that the defendants are indemnified by the United States government, and encouraged the attorneys to reach a settlement before trial.{{cite news|last1=Fink|first1=Sheri|title=2 Psychologists in C.I.A. Interrogations Can Face Trial, Judge Rules|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/cia-interrogations-torture-psychologists.html|access-date=29 July 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 July 2017|page=A18}}
References
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/world/threats-and-responses-terrorism-5-year-hunt-fails-to-net-qaeda-suspect-in-africa.html
| title = 5-Year Hunt Fails to Net Qaeda Suspect in Africa
| work = New York Times
| author = Desmond Butler
| date = 2003-06-14
| access-date = 2016-10-12
| quote = The man, who Kenyan officials say was wanted for involvement in the embassy bombings and is now in American custody, is Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed, known as Issa. Said to be a Yemeni in his mid-20s, Mr. Hemed is one of a number of suspected Qaeda members whose faces appear on illustrated playing cards being distributed by the American agents in Somalia.
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/cia-torture-abuses-detainee.html?_r=0
| title = After Torture, Ex-Detainee Is Still Captive of 'The Darkness'
| work = New York Times
| author = James Risen
| author-link = James Risen
| date = 2016-10-12
| location = Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| access-date = 2016-10-12
| quote = Mr. Salim was one of 39 men subjected to some of the C.I.A.'s most brutal techniques — beatings, hanging in chains, sleep deprivation and water dousing, which creates a sensation of drowning, even though interrogators had been denied permission to use that last tactic on him, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the agency's classified interrogation program.
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/former-cia-detainees-to-sue-american-contractors-who-designed-to/
| title = Former CIA detainees to sue American contractors who designed torture programme
| publisher = The Telegraph (UK)
| author = Harriet Alexander
| date = 2016-04-23
| location = New York City
| access-date = 2016-10-12
| quote = Mr Salim, who is now back home in Tanzania, said he was held for five years and tortured. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't smell," he told The Guardian. "Flashbacks come anytime, so much they make you crazy."
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-27-fg-nairobi27-story.html
| title = Kenya Hands Over Al Qaeda Suspect to U.S. Officials: Authorities in Nairobi say he took part in the 1998 bombings of American embassies
| work = Los Angeles Times
| date = 2003-03-27
| location = Nairobi, Kenya
| language = en
| access-date = 2016-10-12
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Category:Tanzanian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States