Hassan bin Attash
Saudi arabian Guantanamo detainee
Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash (Arabic: حسن محمد علي بن عطاش) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that bin Attash was born in 1985, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash was held at Guantanamo for 20 years.
Attash was seventeen years old when he was captured.
Hassan is the brother of Walid bin Attash, who has also been described as an inmate in the CIA's network of secret prisons.
Hassan, too, claims he spent time in the other prisons, including "the dark prison", prior to being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Human Rights Concern
The circumstances of Hassan bin Attash have triggered the attention of several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Reprieve and Human Rights Watch.
According to their accounts Hassan bin Attash was captured on September 10, 2002, spent time in the dark prison, spent sixteen months in Jordan, where he was hung upside down, and beaten on the soles of his feet, which were then immersed in salt water. They assert that he underwent this kind of questioning until he was willing to sign anything. They claim that he wasn't interrogated about anything he himself had done, but rather about the activity of his older brother.
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