Habir Russol is a citizen of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

who was held in

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in the

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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

s, in

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. Russol was released from Guantanamo on July 18, 2005.

Identity

Russol's release from Guantanamo was widely covered by the news media. However he was not named on the full official list of all the men who had been held in military custody, in Guantanamo.list of prisoners (.pdf)
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US Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...

'', May 15, 2006 His internment serial number was 120.

Press reports

Reporters interviewed Russol, and

Moheb Ullah Borekzai Muhibullah or Moheb Ullah Borekzai is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 546. American intelligence analys ...

, another Afghan who was released at the same time, on July 20, 2005, the day they arrived home. In this interview they revealed that Camp Delta was in the midst of a widespread

hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fasting, fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are ...

. Borekzai and Russol estimated that over 180 detainees were participating in the hunger strike, and that it had been going on for over two weeks. Initially DoD spokesman Flex Plexico denied any knowledge of a hunger strike. On July 21, 2005, three days after their departure, Plexico claimed that only a small number of detainees had been refusing food, and that they had only been doing so for three days. The lawyers of Guantanamo details later corroborated the details of the Afghans claims, saying that they had been aware of the hunger strike as early as June 23, 2005, but had not been able to say anything because of a DoD gag placed on them. Borekzai told the Associated Press the detaineesa are protesting because ''"some of these people say they were mistreated during interrogation. Some say they are innocent."'' The two Afghans said they had been accused of being members of the former Taliban regime, but both said they were innocent.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Russol, Habir Afghan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Living people Year of birth missing (living people)

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