Merza Khan

Merza Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A29276-2003Mar25&notFound=true
title=Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo: Out of Legal Limbo, Some Tell of Mistreatment
publisher=Washington Post
date=March 26, 2003
accessdate=2007-02-27] The "Washington Post" reported that Merza Khaan was one of eighteen men repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22 2003, and released with a certificate of innocence by Afghan authorities on March 26 2003.

Merza Khan is not a name listed on the official list of captives the Department of Defense released on May 15 2006. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/d20060515%20list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006]

The "Washington Post "reported that Merza Khan acknowledged fighting with the Taliban. He claimed::"Americans in Kandahar tied him up and alternately forced him to lie face down on the ground, then squat with his hands on his head for hours. He also said he saw American soldiers throw the Koran on the ground and sit on it while in Kandahar."

Merza Khan, and the other released captives, were given a one set of western clothes, including running shoes and a knapsack for carrying their medical records.

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