Muhammad Assad
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Muhammad Assad, Salah Ali and Muhammad Bashmilah are three Yemenis who, according to Amnesty International, were captured in the frame of the US extraordinary rendition illegal program and detained in CIA black sites outside any national or international juridiction.
The three were all arrested in late 2003. They were all repatriated to Yemen in May 2005. As of November 2005 all three remain in Yemeni custody.
The three describe being held in solitary confinement, isolated from all contact with the outside world, under conditions Amnesty International described as "sensory deprivation".
Assad was captured in Tanzania, on December 26, 2003. Tanzania had been his home for the last eighteen years. Assad says that the only thing he was asked about during his interrogation was the Al-Haramain Foundation, the charity he worked for, which the Bush administration has listed as a charity tied to terrorism.
[edit] External links
- Prisoner Accounts Suggest Detention At Secret Facilities: Rights Group Draws Link to the CIA, Washington Post, November 7, 2005
- "Disappearance", Secret detention and Arbitrary detention: CASE SHEET of Muhammad Abdullah Salah al-Assad, Amnesty International, November 7, 2005
- Secret Detention in CIA "Black Sites", Amnesty International, November 8, 2005
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