Citizenship Pakistan Name Asadullah Jan ISN 47 | Alternate name Asad Ullah Detained at Guantanamo | |
Charge(s) No charge (held in extrajudicial detention) Status Repatriated 16 July 2003 | ||
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Asadullah Jan is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 47. Joint Task Force -- Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1981. But he says he was only sixteen when he was captured in 2001.
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Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts assert he is a citizen of Pakistan. He said he was a child of Afghan refugees, who was born in Pakistan.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts assert his name was "Asad Ullah". But in interviews with reporters with the McClatchy News Service in 2008 he said his name was "Asadullah Jan".
He was repatriated 16 July 2003.
McClatchy News Service interview
On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. Asadullah Jan was one of thee former captives who had an article profiling him.
Asadullah Jan explained that he was returning from a visit to relatives in Zormat when he was stopped at a checkpoint in Kohat, Pakistan and apprehended around the time of Ramadan, 2001. He was held in Pakistan, for approximately a month before his first interrogation by Americans.
His first interview was by a woman and two men, in civilian clothes, at the Pakistani jail.
His interpreter said they were with the CIA, although they didn't identify themselves. He told his McClatchy interviewer their questions surprised him—apparently Pakistani security officials had told them he was a son of Osama bin Laden. The CIA officials had him transferred to US custody in the Kandahar detention facility. Guards beat him brutally upon his arrival, and routinely beat him and other captives, while he was detained there. His interrogators however never beat him. He described the conditions in the camp as primitive:
"We were sitting on the ground, in winter, with no blanket. I had bruises on my body from the beating; my bones hurt."
Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he personally saw a guard drop a Koran into a latrine.
Asadullah Jan told his interviewer he was plagued by memories of Guantanamo, that mention of the USA would bring back troubling recollections.