Gul Rahman
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Gul Rahman was an Afghan torture
victim who died in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul.
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. Karzai had been imprisoned by the government forces, and Gul was working for insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
. Hekmatyar's forces fired rockets at the building while Gul entered and made contact with Karzai. He then took him to a safe house in Kabul.
Torture
Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
victim who died in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul.
Cause of death
He died on November 20, 2002 after being shackled to a cold cement wall in the Salt PitSalt Pit
The Salt Pit is the codename of an isolated clandestine CIA black site prison, and interrogation centre in Afghanistan. It is located north of Kabul and functioned as a brick factory prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan...
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Rescue of Hamid Karzai
Acccording to Gul's brother, Habib Rahman, Gul was involved in a 1994 rescue of Hamid KarzaiHamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...
. Karzai had been imprisoned by the government forces, and Gul was working for insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an Afghan Mujahideen leader who is the founder and leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party and paramilitary group. Hekmatyar was a rebel military commander during the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan and was one of the key figures in the civil war that followed the...
. Hekmatyar's forces fired rockets at the building while Gul entered and made contact with Karzai. He then took him to a safe house in Kabul.