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| US frees 14 more Pakistanis from Bagram prison |
| 2014-09-21 |
| [DAWN] Fourteen Pak detainees were released from US custody in Bagram Prison in Afghanistan and repatriated to Pakistain on Saturday, a Pak legal firm representing some of the prisoners said. Justice Project Pakistain (JPP) has been representing several Bagram detainees since 2010 in a bid to force the Pak government to bring them home. So far no information has been provided by the Pak authorities on the names of the released detainees or their current whereabouts, said Sarah Belal, a lawyer with the JPP. One of the released detainees is 29-year-old Abdul Halim Saifullah, Belal said, citing information from the Red Thingy. She said he disappeared nine years ago from the southern city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... after dropping his father off at a hospital and has been detained in Bagram ever since. Including the group released on Saturday, 39 Paks have been released from Bagram in the past 10 months. At least one Pak is thought to still be in prison there, although the exact numbers are unclear since no official list has been provided since 2012. Sarah Belal, lead counsel for Justice Project Pakistain, said the government did not inform the families about the release and she feared the men may now be transferred to secret Pak prisons. "We still don't know about the whereabouts of the nine detainees released last month. The lack of clarity with today's tranche gives us reason to fear that they too may be held incommunicado by the Pak authorities," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 they were all GPS chipped in their cerebral cortex. Just want their "friends" to know. Go ahead a dig around for it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-21 08:35 |