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Yemeni Man Seized in Egypt Ends Up At Guantanamo

HeadlineMar 30, 2005

Human Rights Watch announced Tuesday it has uncovered evidence that a Yemeni man being detained at Guantanamo Bay was originally picked up in Egypt three years ago during a business trip. The man–who is an intelligence colonel in the Yemeni government–disappeared during his trip to Egypt and wasn’t heard from for 19 months. He believes he was kidnapped by Egyptian officers who then turned him over to the United States. He was taken to a prison in Afghanistan and later to Guantanamo Bay. Human Rights Watch said it is the first known example of reverse rendition–where a wanted person is seized in a foreign country far from any battlefield and then handed over to the U.S. for interrogation.

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