Dark prison

The dark prison is the informal name used by some Guantanamo Bay detainees for a secret prison they claim they were detained in near Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1] According to an article distributed by Reuters, eight Guantanamo detainees have described the conditions they were held under in "the dark prison".

Detainees claimed that they were detained in complete darkness for weeks on end. They described being deprived of food and water and being fed filthy food and water when they were fed.^[2] The prisoners' details have been consistent, saying that the guards did not wear military uniforms — prompting Human Rights Watch to suggest it was run as a black site by the Central Intelligence Agency. One prisoner reported being threatened with rape.^[2] In 2011, The Miami Herald reported that the Dark Prison is another name for the Salt Pit.^[3] Two Afghan captives died there in 2005 and a Department of Defense investigation finally concluded they had been murdered, as some detainees had claimed.^[3]

Detainees who claimed to have been detained in the dark prison

Jamil al-Banna	arrested in Gambia with Bisher al-Rawi and others transported to the black site detained at Guantanamo Bay from March 2003 to December 19, 2007
Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila	detained in Camp Delta
Bisher al-Rawi	arrested in Gambia with Jamil al-Banna detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps until March 2007 released after the British public learned he had been co-operating with MI5 in their surveillance of Abu Qatada
Hassin Bin Attash	claims he was tortured in the black sites 17 when captured detained in Camp Delta brother of Waleed Muhammad bin Attash
Binyam Mohammed	claims he was tortured in the black sites detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps until February 2009 US government claimed he was a co-conspirator of Jose Padilla in a bombing plot, but dropped charges
Laid Saidi	Saidi worked for the Al-Haramain Foundation in Tanzania; captured May 10, 2003.^[4] Was detained in "Salt Pit" at the same time as Khaled el-Masri, a German resident abducted while on vacation in Macedonia.
Sanad al-Kazimi	Alleges he was beaten with electric cables and attempted suicide three times in the prison.^[5]
Hayatullah	Held in "the black prison" for forty days before being transferred to Bagram, Afghanistan in 2007.^[6] Reports that the walls of the prison are concrete blocks. Captives who had been held there a long time say they were originally plywood, painted black. Believed the prison was near Bagram base, and was also called "Tor Jail".

References

^ "Detainees describe 'dark prison' "ScienceDaily051219" .
^ ^a ^b U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul (Human Rights Watch, 19-12-2005)
^ ^a ^b Rosenberg, Carol, Jonathan Landay, "Prosecutors probing deaths of two CIA captives", The Miami Herald, June 30, 2011
^ Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands, New York Times, July 7, 2006 - mirror
^ Mayer, Jane, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, 2008. p. 274-275
^ "Interviews With Detainees".

Prisons in Afghanistan

USA black sites

Confirmed	Salt Pit Sarposa Black Jail (Bagram) Pul-e-Charkhi¹

Alleged	Dark Prison (Kabul) Rish Khor

USA military

Afghan

Taliban

Mazari Sharif

¹ Afghan-owned.

CIA secret prisons and detainees

Suspected black sites	Salt Pit Dark Prison Diego Garcia Temara interrogation centre Ain Aouda Stare Kiejkuty Szczytno-Szymany Mihail Kogălniceanu Camp Nama Camp Eggers Strawberry Fields (Guantanamo) Black Jail

Held in the Salt Pit	Khalid El-Masri Laid Saidi Gul Rahman¹

Held in the dark prison	Jamil el Banna Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi Hassan bin Attash Laid Saidi Binyam Mohamed Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani Walid al Qadasi

See also	Enhanced interrogation techniques Extraordinary rendition Ghost detainees Waterboarding Destruction of interrogation tapes

¹ Died in custody.

Incarceration

Science

Prisoners

Prisons

Types	Black site Dark Debtors' Extermination camp Farm Internment Labor camp Military Penal colony Corrective labor colony Prisoner-of-war camp Private Ship Youth detention center

Security levels	Administrative detention Death row Maximum security Open Supermax

Components	Cell Solitary confinement Commissary Cemetery Food Library Nursery Officer Warden Sally port Superintendent of Jail Trusty System

Escape	List of prison escapes Helicopter prison escapes Prisoner-of-war escapes

Culture

Social issues

Organizations

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By country

Controversies surrounding people captured during the War on Terror

Guantanamo Bay detention camp	Suicide attempts Quran desecration controversy Boycott of military tribunals Former captives alleged to have (re)joined insurgency Hunger strikes Force feeding Homicide accusations Juvenile prisoner Seton Hall reports

CIA black site operations	Enhanced interrogation techniques Ghost detainees Waterboarding Destruction of interrogation tapes

Prison and detainee abuse	Abu Ghraib Bagram Canadian Afghan detainee issue Black jail Salt Pit

Prison uprisings and escapes	Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Battle of Abu Ghraib 2008 Sarposa Prison mass escape Basra prison incident Afghan escapes Iraqi escapes

Deaths in custody	Dilawar Jamal Nasser Abdul Wahid Habibullah Abed Hamed Mowhoush Manadel al-Jamadi Nagem Hatab Baha Mousa Fashad Mohamed Muhammad Zaidan Gul Rahman Abdul Wali Dasht-i-Leili massacre

Tortured	Abu Zubaydah Mohamedou Ould Slahi Mohammed al-Qahtani Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Abdul Jabar Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Binyam Mohamed

Forced disappearances	Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Abdu Ali al Haji Sharqawi Muhammed al-Darbi Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman Tariq Mahmood Hassan Ghul Musaad Aruchi Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul

Reports and legislation	Ryder Report Fay Report Taguba Report Church Report Detainee Treatment Act Senate Armed Services Committee Report Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture

Related media	The Road to Guantánamo Taxi to the Dark Side Standard Operating Procedure Torturing Democracy

Dark prison

Dark prison

Detainees who claimed to have been detained in the dark prison

See also

References

Suggestions

Laid Saidi

Encyclopedia Article

Camp Eggers

Encyclopedia Article