Shah Muhammad
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Shah Muhammad is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] On May 8, 2003 Muhammad was released at the same time as two other Pakistanis, Jehan Wali and Sahibzada Usman Ali. He was 20 years old.
Muhammad is from the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.[1]
Only one other Pakistan detainee, elderly Mohammed Saghir, had been released prior to his release. [2][3]
Shah reported that he felt despair, and made four suicide attempts during his time in Guantanamo, even though suicide was against the tenets of Islam.[4]
When The Guardian interviewed Muhammad, a year after his release, Muhammad reported on-going after-effects from his incarceration.[5] "The biggest damage is to my brain. My physical and mental state isn't right. I'm a changed person. I don't laugh or enjoy myself much."
The Guardian reports that Muhammad's first suicide attempt followed a month of solitary confinement in a punishment cell. Muhammad was not confined there because he had broken any of the camp rules -- rather the camp's expansion meant they had run short of ordinary cells.
Muhammad reported having his suicidal impulses treated by involuntary injections with extremely powerful, long-lasting,Gu psychoactive drugs.
The Department of Defense released a list of all the captives who had been detained in Guantanamo, in military custody on May 15, 2006.[6] Muhammad Shah's name is missing from that list.
[edit] References
- ^ a b US releases three Pakistanis jailed in Guantanamo, Daily Times, May 14, 2003
- ^ Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo CBS News, October 29, 2002
- ^ The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196, The Mirror, October 30, 2002
- ^ Inmates Released from Guantanamo Tell Tales of Despair, New York Times, June 17, 2003
- ^ People the law forgot, The Guardian, December 3, 2003
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
