Dark prison

The dark prison is the informal name used by some Guantanamo Bay detainees for a secret prison they claim they were detained in near Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1] According to an article distributed by Reuters, eight Guantanamo detainees have described the conditions they were held under in "the dark prison".

Detainees claimed that they were detained in complete darkness for weeks on end. They described being deprived of food and water and being fed filthy food and water when they were fed.^[1] The prisoners' details have been consistent, saying that the guards did not wear military uniforms — prompting Human Rights Watch to suggest it was run as a black site by the Central Intelligence Agency. One prisoner reported being threatened with rape.^[1] In 2011, The Miami Herald reported that the Dark Prison is another name for the Salt Pit.^[2] Two Afghan captives died there in 2005 and a Department of Defense investigation finally concluded they had been murdered, as some detainees had claimed.^[2]

Detainees who claimed to have been detained in the dark prisonEdit

Jamil al-Banna	arrested in Gambia with Bisher al-Rawi and others transported to the black site detained at Guantanamo Bay from March 2003 to December 19, 2007
Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila	detained in Camp Delta
Bisher al-Rawi	arrested in Gambia with Jamil al-Banna detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps until March 2007 released after the British public learned he had been co-operating with MI5 in their surveillance of Abu Qatada
Hassin Bin Attash	claims he was tortured in the black sites 17 when captured detained in Camp Delta brother of Waleed Muhammad bin Attash
Binyam Mohammed	claims he was tortured in the black sites detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps until February 2009 US government claimed he was a co-conspirator of Jose Padilla in a bombing plot, but dropped charges
Laid Saidi	Saidi worked for the Al-Haramain Foundation in Tanzania; captured May 10, 2003.^[3] Was detained in "Salt Pit" at the same time as Khaled el-Masri, a German resident abducted while on vacation in Macedonia.
Sanad al-Kazimi	Alleges he was beaten with electric cables and attempted suicide three times in the prison.^[4]
Hayatullah	Held in "the black prison" for forty days before being transferred to Bagram, Afghanistan in 2007.^[5] Reports that the walls of the prison are concrete blocks. Captives who had been held there a long time say they were originally plywood, painted black. Believed the prison was near Bagram base, and was also called "Tor Jail".

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul (Human Rights Watch, 19-12-2005)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Rosenberg, Carol, Jonathan Landay, "Prosecutors probing deaths of two CIA captives", The Miami Herald, June 30, 2011^{[dead link]}
↑ Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands, New York Times, July 7, 2006 - mirror
↑ Mayer, Jane, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, 2008. p. 274-275
↑ "Interviews With Detainees". New York Times. 2009-11-29. Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F29%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F29detainees.html%3F_r%3D1%26fta%3Dy%26pagewanted%3Dprint&date=2010-01-18.

^ "Detainees describe 'dark prison'", Science Daily, December 19, 2005

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[HRW-0] 1.0 ^1.1 U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul (Human Rights Watch, 19-12-2005)

[rosenberg-1] 2.0 ^2.1 Rosenberg, Carol, Jonathan Landay, "Prosecutors probing deaths of two CIA captives", The Miami Herald, June 30, 2011^{[dead link]}

[Nytimes060707-2] Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands, New York Times, July 7, 2006 - mirror

[mayer-3] Mayer, Jane, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, 2008. p. 274-275

[NYTimes2007-11-29-4] "Interviews With Detainees". New York Times. 2009-11-29. Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F29%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F29detainees.html%3F_r%3D1%26fta%3Dy%26pagewanted%3Dprint&date=2010-01-18.

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v t e CIA secret prisons and detainees
Suspected black sites	Salt Pit Dark Prison Diego Garcia Temara interrogation centre Ain Aouda Stare Kiejkuty Szczytno-Szymany Mihail Kogălniceanu Camp Nama Camp Eggers Strawberry Fields (Guantanamo) Black Jail
Held in the Salt Pit	Khalid El-Masri Laid Saidi Gul Rahman¹
Held in the dark prison	Jamil el Banna Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi Hassan bin Attash Laid Saidi Binyam Mohamed Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani Walid al Qadasi
See also	Enhanced interrogation techniques Extraordinary rendition Ghost detainees Waterboarding Destruction of interrogation tapes
¹ Died in custody.

v t e Controversies surrounding people captured during the War on Terror
Guantanamo Bay detention camp	Suicide attempts Quran desecration controversy Boycott of military tribunals Former captives alleged to have (re)joined insurgency Hunger strikes Force feeding Homicide accusations Juvenile prisoner
CIA black site operations	Enhanced interrogation techniques Ghost detainees Waterboarding Destruction of interrogation tapes
Prison and detainee abuse	Abu Ghraib Bagram Canadian Afghan detainee issue Black jail Salt Pit
Prison uprisings and escapes	Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Battle of Abu Ghraib 2008 Sarposa Prison mass escape Basra prison incident Afghan escapes Iraqi escapes
Deaths in custody	Dilawar Jamal Nasser Abdul Wahid Habibullah Abed Hamed Mowhoush Manadel al-Jamadi Nagem Hatab Baha Mousa Fashad Mohamed Muhammad Zaidan Gul Rahman Abdul Wali
Tortured	Abu Zubaydah Mohamedou Ould Slahi Mohammed al-Qahtani Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Abdul Jabar Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Binyam Mohamed
Forced disappearances	Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Abdu Ali al Haji Sharqawi Muhammed al-Darbi Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman Tariq Mahmood Hassan Ghul Musaad Aruchi Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul
Reports and legislation	Ryder Report Fay Report Taguba Report Church Report Detainee Treatment Act Senate Armed Services Committee Report
Related media	The Road to Guantanamo Taxi to the Dark Side Standard Operating Procedure (film) Torturing Democracy

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