Jawed Ahmad

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Javed Yazamy

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date_of_arrest = 2007-10-26
place_of_arrest= Kandahar
arresting_authority= USA
date_of_release = 2008-09-22
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citizenship = Afghanistan
detained_at = Kandahar Internment Facility
Bagram Theater Internment Facility
id_number = Bagram 3370
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alias = Jawed Ahmad
Jojo Yazemi
charge = No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
penalty =
status = Classified as an "enemy combatant" in February 2008.
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Jawed Ahmad is an Afghan reporter working for Canadian media outlet CTV who was arrested by American troops and declared an unlawful enemy combatant, while working with NATO at Kandahar Airport on October 26, 2007.

Early life

Jawed started working as a tailor's apprentice at twelve years old.cite news
url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080922.AFGHANFIXER22/TPStory/TPInternational/America/
title=U.S. frees Afghan fixer after 10-month detention he describes as 'hell'
publisher=Globe and Mail
author=Graeme Smith
date=2008-09-22
accessdate=2008-09-22
quote= ] Jawed earned 75 cents a day. He used the money he earned to pay for schooling.His education, and language skills, allowed him to start working as a translator for United States forces shortly after the overthrow of the Taliban.

Jawed was later to work for independent security firms.

In 2006 Jawad started working as a translator and "fixer" for Canadian journalists.

Capture

Jawed was captured on October 26 2007.cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/world/asia/13afghan.html?_r=1&ei=5087&em=&en=1f5ea9d932aa6a5d&ex=1208232000&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
title=Video Link Plucks Afghan Detainees From Black Hole of Isolation
publisher=New York Times
author=Carlotta Gall
date=2008-04-13
accessdate=2008-09-22
quote= ] Jawed reported on his release that he was captured after receiving a request to come to Kandahar Air Field to complete a survey on opinion survey of Afghan journalists from a GI who represented himself as a Public Affairs Officer.

American officials claimed the 22-year old native of Kandahar was carrying phone numbers and videos of Taliban officials.cite news
url=http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/02/27/4879943-ap.html
title=Pentagon detains CTV's Afghan journalist
publisher=Toronto Sun
date=February 27, 2008
accessdate=2008-03-02
quote=A military spokesman says a review board has determined that Jawed Ahmad, an Afghan national, is a danger to foreign troops and the Afghan government.]

He appeared before a military review, which determined there was "credible information" and is held at Bagram Airbase.cite news
url=http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/307393
title=Afghan CTV journalist declared enemy combatant
publisher=Toronto Star
author=Tang, Alisa
date=February 27, 2008
accessdate=2008-03-02
quote=The U.S. military said today a journalist working for Canada's CTV television network, who has been held for four months without being charged, has been designated an unlawful enemy combatant.]

His brother, Siddique, has been in contact with him during his detention, due to the efforts of the International Red Cross.cite news
url=http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/asia/afghan18feb08na.html
title=Afghan journalist detained at Bagram Air Base
publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists
author=
date=February 18, 2008
accessdate=2008-03-02
quote=New York, February 18, 2008—The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by the detention of Canadian Television (CTV) journalist Jawed Ahmad by U.S. military forces at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, for almost three months without charge.] According to his brother, he has been beaten since being detained.cite news
url=http://origin.www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2008/02/19/ctv-journalist.html
title=U.S. should grant rights to detained CTV journalist: groups
publisher=CBC News
date= February 19, 2008
accessdate=2008-03-02
quote=We are deeply troubled that Jawed Ahmad has been secluded in a U.S. military base for nearly three months without charge," Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement."The United States military must explain the reason for his detention and accord him due process. If he is not charged with any crime then he must be released immediately.]

Captives in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility do not have Combatant Status Review Tribunals convened to confirm their combatant status. According to Eliza Griswold in the "The New Republic" their status is determined by the base commander, who may convene a more secret, less formal, less thorough procedure called an "Enemy Combatant Review Board".cite news
author=Eliza Griswold
url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070507&s=griswold050707
publisher=The New Republic
title=The other Guantánamo. Black Hole
date=May 2, 2007
accessdate=2007-05-05] According to Grizwold:

The "Washington Post" reported on June 29 2008 on comments Tina Monshipour Foster made about Jawed Ahmad's detention in Bagram.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801638_pf.html
title=In Courts, Afghanistan Air Base May Become Next Guantanamo
page=A14
publisher=Washington Post
author=Del Quentin Wilber
date=2008-06-29
accessdate=2008-06-29
quote=]

Release

Jawad Ahmad was released, without explanation, on September 22 2008.cite news
url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080922.AFGHANFIXER22/TPStory/TPInternational/America/
title=U.S. frees Afghan fixer after 10-month detention he describes as 'hell'
publisher=Globe and Mail
author=Graeme Smith
date=2008-09-22
accessdate=2008-09-22
quote= ] He credited the help of friends and supporters for his relatively early release, and said guards had told him that many people were lobbying on his behalf.

Jawad said he had seen the documentary film "The Road to Guantanamo" and said he was subjected to the same kind of treatment as the captives whose homicides in US custody were described in the film.He described being hooded, bound, slammed into walls and beaten. One of the beatings broke two of his ribs.Jawad said he was subjected to sleep deprivation. In an interview with the BBC he states "When I landed first of all they stood me in snow for six hours, it was too cold - I had no socks, no shoes, nothing. I became unconscious two times.". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7635307.stm]

Jawad said his interrogators insisted he was a spy: for the Taliban; for Iran; for Pakistan.Jawad said his interrogators told him his family had all been captured, and had already confessed.Jawad said his interrogators told him that he was being held because his Canadian employers had insisted on it.

After his release Jawad told journalists that he was told he was going to be sent to Guantanamo.cite news
url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008