İbrahim Şen (born 1 October 1980) is a Kurdish citizen of Turkey who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.[1][2] The Defense Intelligence Agency reports that following İbrahim Şen's repatriation he "returned to terrorism".[3][4]
| İbrahim Şen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 October 1980 Van, Turkey |
| Released | November 2003 Turkey |
| Citizenship | Turkey |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 297 |
Şen was interviewed in April 2006 by a Turkish newspaper Vakit.[5] Şen reported that female interrogators sexually abused him and desecrated the Koran, and that guards beat him with iron bars and allowed him to be mauled by dogs when he was in the Kandahar detention facility. He reported that camp authorities would amputate wounded limbs rather than trying to provide less radical medical care.[citation needed] Şen reported being left for days in what he called "the insanity room", where captives were subjected to loud noise.[5] Şen also claimed that most GIs in Guantanamo were Jewish and wore skullcaps and that a Rabbi was present during each interrogation.[5] A Turkish columnist, Aslı Aydintaşbaş, criticized Şen for the "crude antisemitism" he showed in his interview.[5] Şen and several other former captives are suing several current and former US officials for the inhumane and illegal conditions of their detention.[6] The other former captives include two other former Turkish captives: Yuksel Celikgogus, Nuri Mert, a former Uzbek named Zakirjan Hasam, and a former Algerian captive Fethi Boucetta. Like Sen, the two other Turkish captives were repatriated prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, in August 2004.[2] The Algerian and Uzbek were among the 38 captives who were freed after their CSR Tribunals determined they never should have been classified as "enemy combatants". According to the DIA,[3] İbrahim Şen was transferred to Turkey in November 2003. In January 2008, Şen was arrested in Van, Turkey, and charged as the leader of an active al-Qaeda cell.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "Guantanamo'da iki yıl yatmış|GAZETE VATAN". Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ a b "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 15 May 2006.
- ^ a b "Fact Sheet: Former GTMO Detainee Terrorism Trends" (PDF). Defense Intelligence Agency. 13 June 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
- ^ "Fact sheet: Former Guantanamo detainee terrorism trends" (PDF). Defense Intelligence Agency. 7 April 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Turkey's Islamist Dailies Spread Anti-American, Antisemitic Incitement". No. 1147. The Middle East Media Research Institute. 26 April 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
- ^ "Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld". Center for Constitutional Rights. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2008.
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