MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Reprieve organization report, 33-year-old Haroon Gul arrived at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2007, after he was passed to the US military by local Afghan forces. Since than he has never been charged or received a trial. This week, Gul had the first hearing in nine years.
"Guantánamo’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) ruled this week that Haroon Gul, 33, must continue to be detained indefinitely without charge or trial because his plan for what he would do post-release was insufficient," the organization said in a statement.
Organization noted that in the past, Gul could be identified mistakenly by the US Government.
"We have reason to believe that Haroon is one of the many proven cases of mistaken identity, but without a lawyer, he had no capacity to challenge his detention in federal court, as others did. He was given less than three hours out of the last nine years to prepare with an attorney for this hearing… This is status-quo justice in Guantanamo," Reprieve US attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis said.
The Guantanamo prison was established in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The prison has been criticized by human rights advocates and former detainees have described the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment, including the use of torture.
