Obaidullah (detainee)

Obaidullah (detainee)

Obaidullah (born c. 1980) is a citizen of Afghanistan and one of many Afghan detainees currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. He was captured as an Enemy combatant on July 20, 2002 and as of July 15, 2012, he has been held at Guantánamo for nine years nine months. Obaidullah's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 762. American intelligence analysts estimate that Obaidullah was born in 1980 in Khowst, Afghanistan.

Obaidullah reported abusive interrogation while held in Bagram, during a period of time when the officers in charge have acknowledged directing the use of the proscribed technique of chaining a detainees hands above his head in order to impose sleep deprivation.