Shah Muhammad

Shah Muhammad is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2003_pg7_8 US releases three Pakistanis jailed in Guantanamo] , "Daily Times", May 14 2003] 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 a baker from Dir, in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.cite news
url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=92154
title=The road to Guantanamo
publisher=The International News
author=Fatima Bhutto
date=January 20 2008
accessdate=2008-01-22]

Only one other Pakistani detainee, elderly Mohammed Saghir, had been released prior to his release. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo] "CBS News", October 29 2002] [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12322925&method=full&siteid=50143 The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta.. three Afghans, combined age 196] , "The Mirror", October 30 2002]

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. [http://www.refuseandresist.org/detentions/art.php?aid=1001 Inmates Released from Guantanamo Tell Tales of Despair] , "New York Times", June 17 2003]

When "The Guardian" interviewed Muhammad, a year after his release, Muhammad reported on-going after-effects from his incarceration. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1098604,00.html People the law forgot] , "The Guardian", December 3 2003] "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, 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. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Muhammad Shah's name is missing from that list.

ee also

*Guantanamo suicide attempts
*Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list

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* cite news
url=http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080921_The_Point__Disturbing_line_Palin_tossed_off_in_address.html
title=The Point: Disturbing line Palin tossed off in address
publisher=Philadelphia Inquirer
author=Mark Bowden
date=2008-09-21
accessdate=2008-09-21
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