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Revision as of 21:54, 27 March 2005
Murat Kurnaz is a 23 year old detainee, held in Guantanamo Bay. Kurnaz, a legal resident of Germany, was born in Germany, and was in the process of becoming a German citizen, when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2003.
In late 2004 the Bush administration was forced to openly review the status of the Guantanamo detainees, and make a determination whether they should have been classified as unlawful combatants.
Kurnaz was one of the detainees with enough legal assistance to challenge the legality of his review in a Washington DC court. Both German investigators, and US Army investigators failed to find any evidence of a tie between Kurnaz and al Queda or any involvement in terrorist activities. But the three officers who reviewed his case said that they had classified evidence that established his guilt.
Shortly before March 27, 2005, apparently through an administrative slip-up, the evidence against Kurnaz was declassified. It consisted of an unsigned memo that contained uncorroborated conclusions that were at odds with all the other evidence in his dossier.
Kurnaz is one of the detainees who has alleged that he was subject to interrogation techniques that included suffocation by drowning, sexual humiliation, and the desecration of his religion.
External links
- Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee: U.S. Military Intelligence, German Authorities Found No Ties to Terrorists, Washington Post, March 27, 2005
- Lawyers say Turk was tortured at Guantanamo New Hampshire Union Leader, March 10, 2005
- Detainees Accuse Female Interrogators: Pentagon Inquiry Is Said to Confirm Muslims' Accounts of Sexual Tactics at Guantanamo Washington Post, February 10, 2005
- German Resident Incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay for Two-and-a-Half Years