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CAGEPRISONERS BEYOND THE LAW – The War on Terror’s Secret Network of Detentions AFRICA East Africa PRISON NAME LOCATION CONTROL SITE CONDITIONS DETAINEES STATUS Unknown Unknown East African Arabic Muhammad al-Assad was taken from his - Muhammad al- Suspected speaking jailers, with home in Tanzania and was only told that Assad Proxy Detention possibly Somali or orders had come from very high sources that Facility Ethiopian accents. he should be taken. The next thing he knew he had been taken on a plane for three hours to a very hot place. His jailers who would take him for interrogation spoke Arabic with a Somali or Ethiopian accent and had been served with bread that was typical of those regions. He was held in this prison for a period of about 2 weeks during which time he was interrogated by an English-speaking woman a white western man who spoke good Arabic. 1 Egypt Al Jihaz / State Situated in Nasr State Security Many former detainees have consistently - Ahmad Abou El Confirmed Security City which is in Intelligence approximated that cells within this centre are Maati Proxy Detention Intelligence an eastern roughly four feet wide and ten foot long, with - Maajid Nawaz Facility National suburb of Cairo many packed together, and with many more - Reza Pankhurst Headquarters detainees held within a small area. A torture - Ian Nesbit room is also alleged to be close by to these cells so that detainees, even when not being tortured themselves, were privy to the constant screams of others. Abou Zabel 20 miles from State Security El Maati reports that he spent some weeks in - Ahmad Abou El Confirmed the centre of Intelligence this prison. At first, he was held in solitary Maati Proxy Detention Cairo in its confinement for approximately two weeks. 2 Facility outskirts Later on he was taken to and older section of located in the the complex which dated back to the Kalyoubeya nineteenth century when the British had used governate it. The cell was six feet wide and ten feet long but was only kept there for one night before being returned to the main section of the Abou Zabel prison. 3 Damanhour Before the State Security Twelve blocks of the prison are allocated as - Hassan Osama Confirmed Prison Abadeya Intelligence follows: five for political prisoners, three for Nasr Proxy Detention village in Al- criminal prisoners, one for disciplinary Facility Beheira punishment, and three for women. Each governate, 100 block contains 18 cells .The cell are 6 x 4 m. miles from Cairo and has three windows which are 1 x 0.25 m. 4 in the Nile The prison started to receive political Delta. prisoners in November 1995, but some time later the political prisoners were removed from it. Lazogley State In the Lazogley State Security Ahmed El Maati also reports that he was - Maajid Nawaz Confirmed Security square district Intelligence secretly held in Lazogley state security branch - Reza Pankhurst Proxy Detention Intelligence of Cairo, for several weeks in July 2002. He has stated - Ian Nesbit Facility Regional directly under that he was brought to Lazogley in the back - Hussain al-Zawhiri Headquarters the Ministry of of the van, hidden lying flat covered in - Ahmad al-Naggar Interior blankets and a spare tyre, after being - Wa’el Tawfiq released into SSI hands from the Mukhabarat - Ahmed Abou El al-Aama . El Maati was kept in the hallway for Maati his first two weeks where, along with many other prisoners, he was forced to spend his time in an upright in a sitting position, awake, with beatings applied to those who could not take the strain and leaned sideways. 5 Mukhabarat al- The General intelligence The torture reported at this headquarters - Ahmed Abou El Confirmed Aama headquarters and security services included beatings so professional that those Maati Proxy Detention Headquarters are situated in subjected to it stated that it had seemed as Facility the Abdeen though the interrogators were trained in area of Cairo martial arts; the use of stress positions; and threats of sexual assault and rape directed towards family members. El Maati reports, for example, that, as he heard the sound of a woman screaming; interrogators claimed that his sister was in the next room, and that they were about to rape her. 6 Tora Prison 14 miles south State Security The complex includes Istikbal Tora prison, - Ahmad Abou El Confirmed Complex of Cairo Intelligence Mazra Tora prison, the Leman Tora prison and Maati Proxy Detention prison hospital, and the high security prison - Ahmed ‘Agiza Facility (also known as the Scorpion prison). Mazra - Muhammed al- prison has a side prison attached to it known Zeri as Mulhaq Mazra. Ahmed ‘Agiza and Muhammed al-Zari were held in the Mulhaq Mazra prison. They reported that they were regularly subjected to electric shocks and other forms of torture. After being held secretly for over two years, in February 2004, Swedish authorities were allowed to visit ‘Agiza and al-Zari, and Agiza’s mother was able to see her son (with Egyptian security supervision) at Mazra Tora. Consul and regular vists were in Mazra Tora but they were held in Mulhaq Mazra. Agiza’a mother states that it was clear that her son had been tortured. She stated that he had been unable to even pick up his arms to hug her, and that he was very slow and very tired and weak. Unknown Unknown State Security Former Guantanamo detainee, Mamdouh - Mamdouh Habib Confirmed Intelligence, with Habib explained that he was taken to a - Unidentified male Proxy Detention access given to US, secret underground prison where he was held (crippled from Facility Israeli and Italian and tortured for a period of six months. torture while in interrogators Another Australian prisoner who he did not detention) name was crippled there due to the extent of the torture. 7 Gambia NIHQ Gambian Gambian National Bisher Al Rawi, Wahab Al Rawi and Jamil El - Bisher Al Rawi Confirmed Security HQ in Intelligence with Banna were all taken to NIHQ (the Gambian - Wahab Al Rawi Proxy Detention Banjul access given to CIA Security Headquarter) in Banjul. It was there - Jamil El Banna Facility that they were interrogated by the Gambians - Abdullah El and Americans. According the interrogators, Janoudi the British had ordered their arrest. 8 Unknown House on the Gambian intelligence Americans had unlimited access to the men - Bisher Al Rawi Confirmed outskirts of being held using information that they - Wahab Al Rawi Constructive Banjul admitted had been passed on by British - Jamil El Banna Detention officials. They were all abused during these - Abdullah El Facility interrogations. 9 Janoudi Unknown Unknown Gambian intelligence Bisher, Wahab, Jamil and Abdullah were all - Bisher Al Rawi Confirmed transferred to a house after being hooded - Wahab Al Rawi Constructive and handcuffed. The regime in the house was - Jamil El Banna Detention much stricter and they were kept in solitary - Abdullah El Facility confinement. The US interrogators threatened Janoudi the men with beatings and rape in an attempt to break them. 10 Malawi Unknown In the city of United States Central 5 foreigners living in Malawi were arrested - Ibrahim Habaci Confirmed Blantyre Intelligence Agency and taken to an undisclosed location by the - Arif Ulusam Proxy Detention local Malawi National Intelligence Bureau - Faha al Bahli Facility with the help of CIA agents. The detained - Mahmud Sardar included two Turkish, one Saudi, one Issa Sudanese and a Kenyan national. Despite - Khalifa Abdi defense lawyers taking immediate action to have them produced and the High Court of Blantyre demanding they be brought before the court, the men were rendered out of the country. 11 According to a government official, the US gave the Malawi authorities no choice and simply did not know where they were being held, all they knew is that at one point a chartered aircraft took the men for interrogation in another country. 12 Unknown A prison Malawi authorities with When Laid Saidi was handed over to the - Laid Saidi Confirmed located in the access given to a Malawi authorities on the border between Proxy Detention mountains Caucasian grey-haired Tanzania and Malawi, however he was Facility lady and five masked greeted by two middle-aged Caucasian men men. They transported him to a prison in located in the mountains where he was held for a week. 13 Mauritania Nouakchott In the capital Mauritanian The Mauritanian authorities told Mohamedou - Mohamedou Ould Confirmed prison city of intelligence with that, “the Americans told us to arrest you” . Slahi Proxy Detention Nouakchott access given to the FBI During his interrogation he was tortured while Facility a US agent looked on. 14 Morocco Ain Aouda Near the Directorate for the Morocco is being helped by the United States - Unknown Suspected capital Rabat Surveillance of the to build a new interrogation facility for Al detainees Black Site Territory with access Qaeda suspects. Locals have commented given to US officials that they have seen American vehicles in the area of the proposed site and that construction has begun taking place. 15 Such activity goes some way to confirming many reports that suspects being picked up elsewhere in the War on Terror are being outsourced to Morocco for further interrogation. Al Temara A forest five National Security A detailed study of Al-Temara by Amnesty - Binyam Confirmed Interrogation miles outside of Department of International helped to highlight many of the Mohammed Al Proxy Detention Centre the capital Morocco and abuses that are carried out by the Moroccan Habashi Facility Rabat specifically by the secret service authorities. Typical techniques - Jamal Ajouaou Directorate for the include regular beatings as the suspect is - Lekbir Koutoubi Surveillance of the hang from the ceiling.
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