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Swar Khan

b. 1970

Afghan Guantanamo detainee

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About Swar Khan

Born 1970.

Swar Khan, also known as Swatkhan Bahar (born c. 1970), is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Khan was a security official for the Hamid Karzai government prior to his capture. He was represented by James Wyda and Martin Bahl, Federal Public Defenders in Maryland.

Repatriation Khan was transferred to Afghanistan on October 11, 2006.

McClatchy interview On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo detainees. Khan was one of the interviewees.

Tom Lasseter, the lead McClatchy reporter, wrote that while his Tribunal President ruled that even though he had offered their phone numbers the witnesses he requested were not 'reasonably available' but McClatchy reporters "had little trouble" phoning one of them, his boss Mohammed Mustafa, at the Afghan Interior Ministry. Mustafa confirmed that Khan had been falsely denounced by a rival in the Afghan security services.

Khan spoke about being beaten in Bagram, and being hung from the ceiling by his wrists in an isolation cell.

Khan described attempting suicide twice in Guantanamo. Following his repatriation, the Governor of his province offered him another position as a police officer, but he declined.

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1970, Khost
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Who is Swar Khan?

Afghan Guantanamo detainee

When was Swar Khan born?

Swar Khan was born in 1970 in Khost.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Swar Khan

· Wikidata: Q16201763

· DBpedia: Swar Khan

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