Hamidullah

Male, Person

1967 –

83

Who is Hamidullah?

Hamidullah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater Internment Facility. He was interviewed by the New York Times in November 2007, and gave an account of his detention, first in "the black prison" and then in Bagram. On November 28, 2009, Allisa J. Rubin published an article in The New York Times which reports on Hamidullah's description of his detention.

Rubin reported that Hamidullah was a car parts dealer. He said he was captured in June 2009, and held until October 2009, and that he spent his first six weeks in the "black jail", a secret annex to the main Bagram facility, where interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation, prohibited under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, were still practiced.

Rubin reported that Hamidullah described being subjected to sleep deprivation, but that while he could hear other detainees being beaten, and screaming while they were being beaten, he was not beaten himself. He said that detainees had no access to natural light, were made to wear opaque googles, earmuffs and shackes, when being moved around, and weren't allowed to know what time it was, so they didn't know when to pray.

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1967

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on July 23, 2013

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