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of compiling the names of those who had been returned to Libya against their will, with
foreign government involvement. He himself had been rendered to Libya from Mali in 2006.
Othman provided Human Rights Watch with the names and contact information for 21
former prisoners who he said were returned to Libya during the Gaddafi era with US, UK, or
other foreign government involvement. Much of this information overlapped with infor-
mation we already had, but some of it was new. Of those on Othman’s list that we were not
able to interview, one was no longer alive (Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi). Another, Abu Sufian
Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu, the only other Guantanamo detainee to be returned to
Libya besides Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani, refused to speak with us. We were
unable to reach six others. As a result, we were not able to confirm or deny these other
alleged transfers to Libya. In addition, Othman said that another 15 people had been
turned over to Libya from prisons in Sudan, more than 70 from Saudi Arabia, and at least
eight from Jordan. Due to limited time, Human Rights Watch was not able to investigate
these claims.
Human Rights Watch interviewed some family members of people who had been returned
to Libya, as well as family members and former cellmates of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, who died
while in Libyan custody.
Tripoli Documents
On September 3, 2011, Human Rights Watch discovered a number of Gaddafi-era files,
abandoned, in the offices of former Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kusa in Tripoli. 27 Scores
of those documents—several of which are presented here for the first time—provide
important information on the high level of cooperation between the United States and the
United Kingdom in the rendition of Gaddafi’s political opponents to Libya. (See Appendix 1
for a complete list of the documents drawn on in this report.)
The documents include communications between Musa Kusa’s office and the CIA, and
between Kusa’s office and the MI6. They show a high level of cooperation between the
United States, the United Kingdom, and the government of former Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi on the transfer of Gaddafi’s opponents into Libyan custody. The documents are
27 “US/UK: Documents Reveal Libya Rendition Details,” Human Rights Watch news release, September 9, 2011,
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/08/usuk-documents-reveal-libya-rendition-details.
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