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Mohamed Jawad
| Mohamed Jawad | |
|---|---|
 Three months before capture.[1] | |
| Born | 1985 (age 39–40)[2] Miranshah, FATA, Pakistan |
| Arrested | December 2002 Afghanistan Afghan police |
| Released | August 24, 2009 |
| Citizenship | Afghan |
| Detained at | Bagram, Guantanamo |
| Other name(s) | Amir Khan, Mir Jan, Sakheb Badsha[3] |
| ISN | 900 |
| Charge(s) | Attempted murder in violation of the law of war |
Mohamed Jawad, an Afghan refugee born in 1985 in Miranshah, Pakistan, was accused of attempted murder before a Guantanamo military commission on charges that he threw a grenade at a passing American convoy on December 17, 2002. Jawad's family says that he was 12 years old at the time of his detention in 2002. The United States Department of Defense maintains that a bone scan showed he was about 17 when taken into custody.[4]
Jawad insists that he had been hired to help remove landmines from the war-torn region, and that a colleague had thrown the grenade.[citation needed] He was held in extrajudicial detention first at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan and then at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Cuba, from 2003 until 2009.[5][6] His Internment Serial Number was 900.[7]
The military commission presiding judge ruled that Jawad's confession to throwing a grenade was inadmissible since it had been obtained through coercion after Afghan authorities threatened to kill him and his family.[8] He was ordered released after a successful petition for a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2009.[9] On August 24, 2009, he was transported from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan.[8]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
AlJazeera2009-05-26was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ JTF GTMO Detainee Assessment Department of Defense. Retrieved 4 December 2022
- ^ United States Department of Defense, Charge Sheet Against Mohamed Jawad Archived 2009-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, October 2007
- ^ "Young Guantanamo Afghan to sue US". BBC News. August 27, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), United States Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
CNNwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Mohamed Jawad - The Guantánamo Docket". New York Times. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ a b "Mohammed Jawad, Guantanamo Detainee Held As Teen, Back In Afghanistan". Huffington Post. AP. August 24, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ Eviatar, Daphne (July 30, 2009). "Jawad Could Be on His Way Home in Three Weeks". Washington Independent. Archived from the original on August 18, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
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