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 prison[edit | edit source]
Jamil al-Banna |
|
---|---|
Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila |
|
Bisher al-Rawi |
|
Hassin Bin Attash |
|
Binyam Mohammed |
|
Laid Saidi |
|
Sanad al-Kazimi |
|
Hayatullah |
|
See also[edit | edit source]
- List of Afghan prisons
- Black jail, possibly the same place
- Black site
- Detainees in CIA custody
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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
This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors). |
- Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from February 2014
- Prisons in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan articles missing geocoordinate data
- All articles needing coordinates
- Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia
- Black sites
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Detention centers for extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
- Torture in the United States