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Murat Kurnaz is a twenty-five year old German resident of
Turkish descent. While studying Islam in Pakistan in 2001, Murat
was pulled off of a civilian bus at a routine bus stop, and
questioned by local authorities. Those authorities proceeded to
detain him for several days no more suspicion than that Murat
was a foreigner traveling in Pakistan. At a time when the
Pakistani government was facing enormous pressure to assist the
United States in responding to the attacks of 9/11, the
Pakistani authorities transferred Murat to U.S. custody for what
U.S. interrogators told Murat was $3,000. He spent a harrowing
couple of months in the U.S. prison camp in Kandahar,
Afghanistan, where he suffered severe forms of abuse, including
shackling, sleep deprivation, water torture and electrocution.
He was transferred to the U.S. prison camp in Guantánamo Bay in
early 2002 and designated a so-called “enemy combatant.” He was
prisoner number 061.
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full case history of Murat Kurnaz.
Kurnaz Legal Filings
Government-Produced Documents in Response to FOIA Lawsuit
Links to
Kurnaz-Related Media Stories
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The Washington Post:
Ex-Afghanistan Detainee Alleges Torture, March 29, 2008
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The Washington Post:
Evidence Of Innocence Rejected at Guantánamo,
December 5, 2007
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The Washington Post:
Turk was Abused at Guantánamo, Lawyers Say, August
26, 2006
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The Washington Post:
U.S. Frees Longtime Detainee: Court had ruled in favor of
Turk, August 25, 2006
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New York Magazine:
Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association,
June 26, 2006
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The New Yorker:
The Experiment, July 7, 2005
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The New York Times
One Muslim’s Odyssey to Guantánamo, June 5,
2005
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The Washington Post:
Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee: U.S. Military, German
Authorities Found No Ties to Terrorists, March 27, 2005
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