Jehan Wali
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Jehan Wali is a Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] On May 8, 2003 Wali was released at the same time as two other Pakistanis, Shah Muhammad and Sahibzada Usman Ali.
Wali is from the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.[1]
Only one other Pakistan detainee, elderly Mohammed Saghir, had been released prior to his release. [2][3]
[edit] Official list
On May 15, 2006 the Department of Defense released what they described as a full list of all the Guantanamo detainees who were held in military custody.[4] His Guantanamo detainee ID is 444. The DoD estimates he was born in 1967, in Diir, Pakistan.
[edit] References
- ^ a b US releases three Pakistanis jailed in Guantanamo, Daily Times, May 14, 2003
- ^ Afghans Describe Life Inside Gitmo CBS News, October 29, 2002
- ^ The oldest of the old: First 'hardcore' suspects freed from Camp Delta. three Afghans, combined age 196, The Mirror, October 30, 2002
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006