Abdul Zahir (Guantanamo Bay detainee 753) Oman accepted the transfer of ten men from Guantanamo. The names of the transferred men was withheld, by both American and Oman authorities. Oman officials said the men had been granted ""temporary residence"". Vermont lawyer David Sleigh, Zahir's pro-bono habeas attorney, told the "Associated Press" he was one of the transferred men. Abdul Zahir (Guantanamo Bay detainee 753) Abdul Zahir (عبدالظاهر) is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was the tenth captive, and the first Afghan, to face charges before the first Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military
Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations his mouth and nose taped shut. This technique has been described as dry-boarding, intended to gain the cooperation of interrogation subjects through inducing the first stages of death by asphyxiation. Almerindo Ojeda, director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, said, "The dryboarding of Mr. al-Marri raises an unavoidable question... Did the three individuals found hanging in Guantanamo die from dryboarding rather than by hanging?" Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations Guantanamo Bay murder accusations were made regarding the deaths of three prisoners on June 10, 2006 at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp for enemy