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 at its peak in July when 106 out of the 166 detainees were considered on hunger strike, with 45 of them being force-fed by the prison administration. On December 4, 2013, the US military announced that it would no longer disclose information about the hunger strikes, explaining that "The release of this information serves no operational purpose". The last disclosed figures in December showed numbers of hunger strikers rising to 15, with all being force-fed. 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