Fazal Mohammad

Mullah Fazal Mohammad is a citizen of Afghanistan and formerly a Taliban militia commander who was captured on November 25 2001.cite news
publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation
url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200207/s633602.htm
date=Sunday, July 28, 2002
title=Taliban prisoner claims sex abuse in Afghan jail
accessdate=2008-08-21] cite news
url=http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/26/local5.htm
title=KARACHI: Taliban office sealed, 20 held
publisher=Dawn (newspaper)
date=November 25 2001
accessdate=2007-12-02] cite news
url=http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/280702/subcont.htm
title=Taleban prisoner cites abuse in Afghan jail
publisher=Khaleej Times
date=2002
accessdate=2007-12-02] cite web
url=http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/415c61f24.pdf
title=Taliban prisoners allege torture, Afghan intelligence denies torturing.
pages=page 9
publisher=United Nations Human Rights Commission UNCHR
date=July 27 2002
accessdate=2007-12-02]

According to the "Australian Broadcasting Corporation", he was the Taliban militia's "commander in Afghanistan's southern region along the Pakistan border" in 2001. He was one of the speakers who addressed an outdoor rally in support of the Taliban on November 9 2001.cite news
url=http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/10/local10.htm
title=KARACHI: Govt’s Afghan policy criticized
publisher=Dawn (newspaper)
date=November 10 2001
accessdate=2007-12-02] cite news
url=http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/06/local24.htm
title=KARACHI: Rally condemns US bombings
publisher=Dawn (newspaper)
date=November 6 2001
accessdate=2007-12-02]

According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Fazal Mohammed was captured in the Taliban office in Soldier Bazaar, Karachi, where officials seized nineteen other individuals, "relief goods, documents, and aid money".

The "Australian Broadcasting Corporation" reported on July 28, 2002, that thirty-year old Fazal Mohammed was released from a US prison near Kandahar due to failing health. A Pakistani doctor who examined him said he had lost most of his vision. Fazal Mohammad claimed that he and other captives in Kandahar were subjected to sexual abuse and ferocious dogs. Their wounds and other medical conditions were left untreated, and they were fed starvation rations. Fazal Mohammad reported that the Kandahar prison had held approximately 300 other inmates, including former Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil, his spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen, and former Herat governor Maulawi Khairullah Khairkhawa.

In 2005 an individual named Fazal Mohammad was elected to the Kandahar Provincial Council.cite news
url=http://www.results.jemb.org/results.asp?ElectionID=2&ProvinceID=28&Order=Vote
title=Wolesi Jirga & Provincial Council Elections Afghanistan 2005 Elections
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accessdate=2008-06-10
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