Jon Mohammad Barakzai

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Jan Mohammed

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status = One of the first captives to be repatriated, in 2002.
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Jan Mohammed is an Afghani man wjo was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 107.cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote=] cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/14
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Jan Mohammed
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote=] Mohammed was repatriated in October 2002, together with three elderly men, two Afghanis and a Pakistani. [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/attack/main531326.shtml Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo] , "CBS News", October 29 2002] The men described being chained, for hours, during their interrogations.

Mohammed said that he had been forcibly conscripted into the Taliban army, at gunpoint. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35062-2002Oct29&notFound=true Former Guantanamo Prisoners Say They Weren't Tortured] , "Washington Post", October 29 2002] [http://www.dailyiowan.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=f1237049-2fde-4c85-ab43-4c2451d5db6d Guantanamo prisoners tell of confinement & interrogations] , "The Daily Iowan", October 30" 2002] Some press reports stated that Mohammed, and the three elderly detainees released at the same time he was, were the first detainees to be released. But the Washington Post reported that a mentally ill detainee was repatriated in May 2002.

Mohammed said he recognized some high level Taliban leaders in the camp, such as Zaeff Mohammed, a former ambassador. He said that the detainees were shackled every time they were removed from their cells.

Mohammed's companions said that they had no contact with their family during their American custody. Mohammed said he received a letter from his family just three days before his release. [http://www.dailyiowan.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=f1237049-2fde-4c85-ab43-4c2451d5db6d Guantanamo prisoners tell of confinement & interrogations] , "The Daily Iowan", October 30" 2002]

The McClatchy interview

After a long legal battle the Department of Defense complied with a court order from US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff to release the names of all the Guantanamo detainees.The DoD finally released what they described as a full list of all the captives who had been detained, in military custody, in Guantanamo. The name "Jan Mohammed" is missing from that list.However, on June 15 2008 the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy identifed Jan Mohammed as Guantanamo captive 107, listed as "Jon Mohammad Barakzai".

Mohammed described being sent to Sherberghan prison by General Dostum, wherecite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/14
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Jan Mohammed
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote=Some died because of lack of food; others were killed by Dostum's soldiers" at Sherberghan, Mohammed said. "When one of his soldiers thought that someone looked like they were with the Taliban, they would take him outside and beat him with big pieces of wood until he died. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F14&date=2008-08-01 mirror] ] :

Jan Mohammed described horrific abuse while in the Afghan custody that preceded his US custody. He said he had to move, after he returned to Afghanistan, because local Taliban sympathizers suspected his early release was a sign that the was a US spy, or had collaborated with them.

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