Mubarak Hussain Bin Abul Hashem is a citizen of Bangladesh who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1976, in Moind village, Majlishpur Union, Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh.[2]
| Mubarak Hussain Bin Abul Hashem | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Moind, Brahmanbaria District, Bangladesh |
| Arrested | Pakistan American forces |
| Released | 2006-12-15 |
| Citizenship | Bangladesh |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 151 |
| Status | Transferred to Bangladesh |
| Occupation | student |
He was transferred to Guantanamo on January 17, 2002.[3][4] He was repatriated to Bangladeshi custody on December 15, 2006.[5]
Study in Pakistan
editHashem's father, the Imam of the Graphics Art College Mosque in Mohammadpur in Dhaka, sent his son to Pakistan for further religious training in 1998, after he graduated from the Jamiya Rahmaniya Arabia Madrassah at Lalmatia in Dhaka.[6] After two years of study at the Anwar-ul-Ulum Madrassah in Karachi, Abul Hashem's father said his son got a job teaching at the college where he had been studying, once he got his Mufti degree.
Capture
editHashem's father reports that his son was teaching at a madrassa in Karachi when he disappeared in 2001.[7] The Associated Press reported that Abul Hashem's family didn't know what had happened to him until 2004, when the Red Crescent informed them he was in Guantanamo.[7] The Asian News International (ANI) press agency reports his family learned he was in Guantanamo in 2002.[6]
The Daily Star reports Abul Hashem was captured when he emerged from a Pakistani mosque and asked for directions to Karachi.[8] According to ANI, "A Pakistani intelligence officer captured him when he was again trying to enter Pakistan from the Afghan city of Jalalabad in 2001."[6]
Repatriation
editHashem was repatriated to Bangladeshi custody on December 17, 2006.[7]
Bangladeshi detention
editQatari newspaper The Peninsula quotes an unnamed Bangladeshi Police official, stating:[9]
- "A magistrate of a special court has given him one-month detention late Friday for suspected anti-state activities."
- "During this time we will investigate whether he has any connection with international or local militant groups."
- "He went to Pakistan in late 1998 with a three-month tourist visa but overstayed there for more than two years before he was arrested by American intelligence officers."
References
edit- ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ^ Joint Task Force Guantanamo (March 25, 2005). "Update Recommendation to Release or Transfer to the Control of Another Country (TR) for Guantanamo Detainee ISN: US9BG-000151DP(S)". United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2015-11-07 – via The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Joint Task Force Guantanamo (March 16, 2007). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
- ^ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)" (PDF). Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13.
- ^ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased" (PDF). Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ a b c "Suspected Bangladeshi militant returns from Guantanamo prison". Hindustan Times. Asian News International. December 18, 2006. Archived from the original on November 17, 2018. Retrieved 2015-11-07 – via HighBeam Research.
Mubarak Hussain bin Abul Hashem, 32, the son of an imam of a Bangladeshi mosque ... Abul Hashem, the father of the suspect ... told newsmen here that he had sent his son to the Anwar-ul-Ulum Madrassah in Karachi in 1998 for higher studies after he had passed 'Title' phase of his Islamic education from the Jamiya Rahmaniya Arabia Madrassah at Lalmatia in Dhaka. The imam of the Graphics Art College Mosque in Mohammadpur in Dhaka further went on to say ... he came to know that Mubarak was languishing in the Guantanamo Bay prison from the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society in 2002.
- ^ a b c "U.S. returns inmate to Bangladesh". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. December 18, 2006. p. A4.
- ^ "Bangladeshi back home after 5 years of horror at Guantanamo prison". The Daily Star. December 18, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ^ Guantanamo returnee slapped with detention in Bangladesh Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Peninsula, December 24, 2006