Hafiz Ihsan Saeed

Hafiz Ihsan Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 98.The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 23 1978, in Lahore, Pakistan.

Identity

Pakistan's "Daily Times" reports that a man named Hafiz Ehsan Saeed was repatriated to Pakistan in the fall of 2004.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21] cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21]

Capture and detention

According to Pakistan's "The Nation" Saeed was first captured by Abdul Rashid Dostam who held him under brutal conditions.cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21] Dostam is widely reported to have sold hundreds of Afghans and Arab expatriates to American intelligence in return for bounties.

According to the "The Daily Times":cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21]
* Saeed's father died while he was in detention. The "Daily Times" quoted Saeed: "“I was quite upset when I heard the news (of my father’s death) but I will sacrifice anything for Islam,”"
* Saeed said he was ready to “go for Jihad again.”
* Saeed said he was tortured at Guantanamo.
* Saeed and two other of the released men agreed: “The authorities at Guantanamo Bay desecrated our holy book to humiliate us. However, we were given some religious freedom after the Red Cross’s intervention,”

Release

The "Daily Times" reported that Saeed was repatriated with sixteen other men. The seventeen men were released from Pakistani custody on June 28 2005.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-6-2005_pg7_1
title=17 ex-Guantanamo prisoners released
date= June 28 2005
publisher=Daily Times
accessdate=2007-01-21] cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/june-2005/28/index7.php
title=17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed
publisher=The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
date=June 28 2005
accessdate=2007-01-21] According to "Daily Times" Punjab's chief minister’s adviser on religious affairs,
Maulana Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, said local authorities wanted to investigate whether the men had been brainwashed and were still involved in any terrorist activity.

There is no record that Saeed's enemy combatant status was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]

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