Rish Khor is a prison on an

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military base that former captives report was run by

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Anand Gopal Anand Gopal is a contributing writer at ''The New Yorker'' and author of ''No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes'', which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror. It was a fin ...

, writing in the ''

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'', quoted Rehmatullah Muhammad, one of nine men from a mountain village named

Zaiwalat Zaiwalat, also Zaywalāyat or Zywlayt () is a subdistrict and village of Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan. It lies along the Kabul-Behsud Highway, to the west of Kot-e Ashro and to the east of the town of Jalrez. As of 2010 t ...

in Wardak who recounted being seized by Americans in a midnight raid in 2009, and then being taken to Rish Khor for interrogation. He said his American interrogators did not wear uniforms, and that he and his fellow villagers were handcuffed and locked in a steel shipping container, when not being interrogated. His interrogators accused the villagers of giving food and shelter to the

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. Even though Rehmatullah Muhammad says he was then forwarded to the United States'

Bagram Theater Internment Facility The Parwan Detention Facility (also called Detention Facility in Parwan or Bagram prison) is Afghanistan's main military prison. Situated next to the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan, the prison was built by the U.S. during ...

—where he was held for a further four months, Gopal reports the US military has denied all knowledge of a detention facility at Rish Khor. According to Gopal:

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