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SEPTEMBER 2012 ISBN: 1-56432-940-2 Delivered Into Enemy Hands US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Key Recommendations..................................................................................................................... 13 Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 15 I. Background .................................................................................................................................. 18 Libya from the 1970s to the 1990s ........................................................................................... 18 Flight from Libya ..................................................................................................................... 21 Libyan Islamic Fighting Group ................................................................................................. 23 Gaddafi’s Rapprochement with the West ................................................................................ 28 II. Detainee Accounts from Afghanistan and Morocco ....................................................................... 31 Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed al-Shoroeiya and Khalid al-Sharif .......................................... 31 Departure from Libya ........................................................................................................ 33 Arrest and Detention ........................................................................................................ 34 Afghanistan I .................................................................................................................... 38 Afghanistan II ................................................................................................................... 53 Shoroeiya’s Transfer and Treatment in Libya ..................................................................... 56 Sharif’s Transfer and Treatment in Libya ........................................................................... 58 Majid Mokhtar Sasy al-Maghrebi ............................................................................................ 60 Departure from Libya ....................................................................................................... 60 Pakistan ........................................................................................................................... 61 Afghanistan I ................................................................................................................... 62 Afghanistan II ................................................................................................................... 65 Transfer and Treatment in Libya ....................................................................................... 66 Saleh Hadiyah Abu Abdullah Di’iki .......................................................................................... 67 Departure from Libya ........................................................................................................ 67 Arrest and Detention ....................................................................................................... 68 Afghanistan I .................................................................................................................... 70 Afghanistan II ................................................................................................................... 72 Transfer and Treatment in Libya ........................................................................................ 75 Mustafa Salim Ali el-Madaghi ................................................................................................. 78 Morocco ........................................................................................................................... 79 Transfer and Treatment in Libya ....................................................................................... 80
Mustafa Jawda al-Mehdi ......................................................................................................... 83 Departure from Libya ........................................................................................................ 83 Arrest and Detention ....................................................................................................... 84 Peshawar ........................................................................................................................ 84 Islamabad ........................................................................................................................ 85 Afghanistan ..................................................................................................................... 85 Transfer and Treatment in Libya ....................................................................................... 88 III. Transfers to Libya that Began in Asia .......................................................................................... 91 Abdul Hakim Belhadj .............................................................................................................. 91 Departure from Libya ....................................................................................................... 92 Malaysia and Thailand ..................................................................................................... 93 Treatment in Libya ........................................................................................................... 99 Sami Mostefa al-Saadi .......................................................................................................... 102 Departure from Libya ...................................................................................................... 102 Treatment in Libya .......................................................................................................... 107 Muhammed Abu Farsan ......................................................................................................... 111 Departure from Libya ....................................................................................................... 111 Treatment in Libya ........................................................................................................... 115 IV. Transfer from Guantanamo Bay: The Case of Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani ................. 117 Departure from Libya ....................................................................................................... 117 Transfer to Guantanamo ................................................................................................. 118 Transfer and Treatment in Libya ...................................................................................... 119 V. The Case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi ................................................................................................ 120 VI. Detainees Rendered From Other African Countries to Libya ....................................................... 132 Ismail Omar Gebril al-Lwatty ................................................................................................. 132 Mafud al-Sadiq Embaya Abdullah ......................................................................................... 134 Abdullah Mohammed Omar al-Tawaty ................................................................................... 136 Othman Salah (Sheikh Othman) ........................................................................................... 137 VII. International Legal Standards .................................................................................................. 141 Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 149 Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... 154 Appendix I: Tripoli Documents ....................................................................................................... 156 Appendix II: Shoroeiya Drawings ...................................................................................................204
Page 1 and 2: H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H Del
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Page 9 and 10: These stories provide new details a
Page 11 and 12: Gaddafi opponents in Libya. Ten of
Page 13 and 14: treatment. Nor did they protect det
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Page 21 and 22: of compiling the names of those who
Page 23 and 24: Libya from the 1970s to the 1990s I
Page 25 and 26: Gaddafi also made major changes to
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Page 31 and 32: In late autumn of 2007, these repor
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Page 37 and 38: Shoroeiya and Sharif said that once
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Page 47 and 48: Sharif also said he learned the nam
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He said there were doctors present.
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Mohammed Shoroeiya said his interro
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stan.” 191 Both thought they migh
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Shoroeiya said there were intrusive
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“The biggest suffering for any pr
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Majid Mokhtar Sasy al-Maghrebi Maji
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him in Pashto, they spoke to him in
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Loud music was blaring constantly.
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On various occasions while detained
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he was in Karachi, Pakistan. After
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faces. He said he saw from the eyeh
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His interrogators would come to him
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He again went on hunger strike, ask
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Di’iki was detained in solitary c
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Mustafa Salim Ali el-Madaghi Mustaf
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took photos of him; put him in diap
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flight plan to go into Nouakchott,
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Mehdi said he first went to Saudi A
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Pakistanis responded in Pashto. He
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There were about 12 interpreters, p
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know what’s going to happen to yo
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Departure from Libya Belhadj was bo
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‘This is it.’ I thought I would
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information with you [Libyan securi
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equests for information from Abu
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subsequently was able to receive vi
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Sami Mostefa al-Saadi © 2012 Human
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making harsh statements against the
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denied permission for the Libyan ai
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Saadi said he was held without char
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complicity in his transfer back to
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Abu Farsan spent the next decade at
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They noted in the fax that they und
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On June 7, 2006, Abu Farsan was tra
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Safrani in Afghanistan, said that t
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V. The Case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Lib
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In late 2001, Pakistani authorities
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2004, al-Libi recanted the informat
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held until December 2006, when the
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It is not clear when Ibn al-Sheikh
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Mostafa al-Mehdi (see above) saw al
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VI. Detainees Rendered From Other A
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appointed a lawyer who he said did
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In early 2008 he was charged with b
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government. After 1992, when the go
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governments during the Gaddafi gove
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conflict or emergency, may “opt o
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them to Libya in violation of their
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each country to which the agency de
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shelving the Gibson Inquiry and wou
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To the US Congress • Create an in
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To the Government of the Netherland
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Acknowledgments This report was wri
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Recreation of Document 2144 SUBJECT
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Translation of Documents 2164-65 Al
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