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Revision as of 14:59, 17 October 2005 by Joaquin Murietta (talk | contribs) (NPOV, remove stub. Add basic facts such as DOB and full name.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Benyam (Benjamin) Mohammed al Habashi (also transliterated as Binyam Mohammed) (b. 1979) is an Ethiopian national who is detained in Guantanamo Bay prison. In 1994, Mohammed sought asylum in the UK.
In June 2001, Mohammed travelled to Afghanistan. The reasons for the trip are in dispute. UK and U.S authorities contend that Mohammed trained in a paramilitary Al-Qaeda camp. Mohammed's supporters contend that the trip was for innocent purposes. After 9/11, he went to Pakistan. On April 10, 2002, Mohammed was arrested at the Karachi airport by Pakistani authorities as a suspected terrorist
The course of Mohammed's incarceration is factually disputed. His supporters contend that entered a "ghost prison system" run by US and UK intelligence agents. Before his transfer to Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed states that he was incarcerated in prisons in prisons in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan, and that while in Morocco, interrogators tortured him by using scalpels to cut his chest and penis.
Mohammed is represented by Clive Stafford Smith, who states that Mohammed participated in hunger strikes at Guantanamo.
External links
- 'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony' The Guardian, July 2, 2005,
- Amnesty International Fact Sheet on Benyam Mohammed