Abdul Halim Sadiqi
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Abdul Halim Sadiqi is a citizen of Pakistan
who was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
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Abdul Halim Sadiqi was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 and transferred to Pakistan on Oct. 11, 2006.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
who was held in extrajudicial detention
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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Abdul Halim Sadiqi was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 and transferred to Pakistan on Oct. 11, 2006.
External links
- Abdul Haleem interview with McClatchy where he describes being innocent and abused in Bagram and at Guantanamo