Ruhal Ahmed

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Ruhal Ahmed (born March 11, 1981 in Birmingham ) is a British citizen who was detained for more than two years without trial, first in Afghanistan and then in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base .

Ruhal Ahmed in May 2007

The Briton traveled to Pakistan with his friends Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal - collectively known as "Tipton Three" because of their Tipton origins - in October 2001, a few weeks after the terrorist attacks in the United States , for a wedding . From there the three traveled to Afghanistan , where they were arrested by soldiers of the Northern Alliance ; they had neither identification papers nor luggage with them. They were handed over to the US Army, which took them to Guantanamo, where they were held as enemy fighters . From early 2002 to March 2004, he was held as prisoner number 110 in Guantanamo Bay without trial or charge . In March 2004 he was released to the UK.

After his release, he first spoke publicly about his detention and reported torture in August 2004 . With his two friends and Jamal Udeen Al-Harith , he sued the former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in various courts in the United States from October 2004 ( Rasul v. Rumsfeld ) for suffering torture and unlawful arrest . After the Court of Appeal ruled against the plaintiffs, the Supreme Court ruled on November 14, 2009 not to accept the case for decision.

In May 2007, Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul were at the show Lie Lab radio station Channel 4 on. While Ahmed had previously stated that he had traveled to Afghanistan for charitable work, he said on the program that he had attended a training camp run by Islamists , where, among other things, he learned how to use an AK47 . In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live in January 2010, Ruhal Ahmed confirmed his information; on visiting the Taliban training camp , he said that was the only source of information for him in the area. He and his friends had practiced with the guns, but did not take part in training for terrorists.

Ahmed took part in a campaign against torture in June 2007 organized by Amnesty International . While touring Denmark , Ahmed expressed sympathy for the Taliban and defended the death penalty .

In January 2010, Ruhal Ahmed met in a television studio for a conversation with one of his former guards.

In 2011, after the publication of secret documents by the platform Wikileaks , it became known that US investigators believed Ruhal Ahmed to be a recruit from al-Qaeda . Major General Geoffrey D. Miller then noted in personal notes that Ahmed had obtained books and videos about jihad from a bookstore in Birmingham before leaving for Pakistan .

family

Ruhal Ahmed's father came from what is now Bangladesh and was a British citizen. Ahmed was the third child in the family, he has two sisters and three brothers. He is married and has two children (as of 2010).

Movie

His experiences were filmed in 2006 in the movie The Road to Guantanamo by director Michael Winterbottom .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rasul v. Rumsfeld. Historic Case. In: Center for Constitutional Rights.
  2. ^ Lie Lab . Channel 4 . Archived from the original on May 27, 2009.
  3. ^ Gary Stix: Can fMRI Really Tell If You're Lying? . In: Scientific American . August 13, 2008. Accessed January 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Andrew Anthony, On Television: Sisters are doing it for themselves . In: The Observer , June 3, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2012. 
  5. ↑ Amnestys front figure förespråkar dödsstraff , Aftonbladet . June 26, 2007. Retrieved August 25, 2007. 
  6. ↑ "Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates" , news.bbc.co.uk, January 12, 2010, accessed on June 21, 2018
  7. ^ "Wikileaks website claims Tipton Three - Ruhal Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal were believed to be Al Qaeda operatives" , May 1, 2011/24. October 2012, accessed June 21, 2018
  8. ^ "The 17 British Guantanamo detainees and the £ 20m compensation fund: Where are they now?" , Www.telegraph.co.uk, February 22, 2017, accessed June 21, 2018
  9. ^ "Hearing with pain" , www.spiegel.de, January 11, 2010, accessed on June 21, 2018
  10. ↑ Tobias Rapp : Hearing with pain . In: Der Spiegel , January 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Ahmed, Ruhal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prisoner in Guantanamo
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham