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Benyam (Benjamin) Mohammed (also transliterated as Binyam Mohammed) is an alleged victim of extraordinary rendition. He was born in Ethiopia and came to the UK at age 15, where he became a devout Muslim. In June 2001, he travelled to Afghanistan, where he is suspected of training in a paramilitary camp. After 9/11, he went to Pakistan, where it is claimed by US authorities that he became involved with terrorist plots. He was arrested in Karachi and entered a "ghost prison system" run by US and UK intelligence agents. He has spent time in prisons in Pakistan, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Mohammed claims that while in Morocco, interrogators tortured him by using scalpels to cut his chest and penis.

Mohammed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, reports that Mohammed was a participant in an extensive hunger strike that occurred in June and July of 2005. Smith says Mohammed is one of the detainees who has restarted fasting in August 2005.

External links

• 'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony' The Guardian, July 2, 2005,
• Suspect's tale of travel and torture The Guardian, August 2, 2005,
• 89 Guantánamo detainees resume hunger strike, Boston Globe, August 27, 2005
• Guantanamo Hunger Strikes Resume, NewStandard, August 30, 2005
• Report On The 56th Day Of The Hunger Strike By Guantanamo Prisoners, Jihad unspun, October 9, 2005

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