Alif Mohammed is a citizen of Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 who was held in extrajudicial detention

Extrajudicial detention

Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

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Press reports

On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones

Mother Jones (magazine)

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provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.
Mohammed was one of the detainees profiled.

Alef Mohammead was interviewed by the New York Times following his repatriation.
He claimed that his brothers were killed when US warplanes bombarded his village in 2003.

Repatriation

Alef Muhammad was repatriated on December 16, 2006 to the custody of the Afghan Commission for Peace and Reconciliation along with six other men. They were released on December 17, 2006.
The New York Times reported that Muhammad was from "the Baghran district in Helmand".
According to their reports he stated:

"Is this my fault that I believe in the words, 'There is no God but Allah?' Other than that there is no witness and no evidence of my guilt." "We had to eat, pray and go to the toilet in the same cell that was 2 meters long and 2 meters wide.

External links

• Two Afghans Released from Guantanamo: a Farmer and a Teenager Andy Worthington