Hamidullah (Guantanamo Bay detainee 1119) Hamidullah (Guantanamo Bay detainee 1119) Hamidullah is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 1119. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was transferred to the United Arab Emirates on August 15, 2016. A senior Taliban leader, also named Hamidullah, surrendered on 24 November 2001. According to a widely republished Associated Press article: He was identified inconsistently on official US Government documents. Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all
Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes The first well-known Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes began in the middle of 2005, when detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp initiated two hunger strikes. The detainees organized several widespread hunger strikes to protest their innocence and the conditions of their confinement. According to camp authorities, other captives who engaged in long-term hunger strikes, committed suicide in June 2006. Widespread hunger strikes recurred in 2013. Hunger strikes began in 2002, when the camp first opened, but the secrecy with which the camp was operated prevented news of those strikes reaching the