Said Abasin is a citizen of Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 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

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's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 671.
American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1982, in Khan o Khel , Afghanistan.

Release

Said Abasin was one of eighteen Guantanamo captives repatriated to Afghanistan on March 22, 2003.
All eighteen men were released by Afghan authorities four days later.

Abasin was the owner of a jitney taxi, captured when he was driving two passengers from Kabul

Kabul

Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

 to Khost

Khost

Khost or Khowst is a city in eastern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Khost province, which is a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan...

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According to Xinhua Abasin was issued a "certificate of innocence" by the Afghanistan Ministry of the Interior.
Xinhua quoted Abasin:

• "It was a nightmare for me, I lost everything, my car, my work and my status in the society."
• "I have no relations with the Taliban, I even hate them, I don't know for what reason I was kept in prison for so long time,"

According to the Washington Post Abasin's father was "an airline official", who lobbied for his son's release.
According to the New York Times, Abasin's father is
Said Roshan, the director of management administration at the Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines.

The New York Times said Abasin was captured near Gardez, the capital of the Province of Paktia.
The article quoted Taj Mohammed Wardak  Taj Mohammad Wardak

Taj Mohammad Wardak

Taj Mohammad Wardak is an Afghan politician, from the Pashtun ethnic group.He spent some of the period of the Taliban's administration in the United States of America, and became an American citizen.-Early political career:...

, who was then Governor of Paktia, that Abasin's arrest was a mistake.