Mohammed Jawad

Winning his freedom was a big step for Mohammed Jawad, reportedly the youngest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay until he was released in August. But Jawad, who two U.S. judges have said was tortured in U.S. custody, is still suffering from the effects of his treatment during seven years in custody without charge, according to a [...]

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but also interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation.

A military judge’s ruling that U.S. officers used “cruel and inhuman” treatment and possibly “torture” on an Afghan teenager imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay provides strong support for the argument that the government should embark on a broader investigation of the treatment of “war on terror” detainees during the Bush administration.

The news that Mohammed Jawad plans to sue the U.S. government for his unlawful detention and torture raises the question of whether he can get beyond the hurdles so many other torture victims have faced in similar lawsuits.
Previous cases have been dismissed on grounds that government officials had “qualified immunity” for their actions — meaning [...]

It’s not just Mohammed Jawad. In 2007, U.S. courts blocked Khalid el-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan in a disastrous case of mistaken identity, from suing the government. The American Civil Liberties Union has kept his case alive, and has found a new venue for it. From [...]

One-time child Guantanamo Bay inmate of Mohammed Jawad — he’s believed to be 21 years old, though it’s unclear, and was detained for about seven years — was returned home to Afghanistan earlier this week. (As The Associated Press put it, a military judge ruled he had been “coerced into confessing to wounding United States [...]

In a major victory for Mohammed Jawad and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented him, Jawad today returned home to Afghanistan. That means he’s likely not going to be charged under U.S. criminal laws, as the Justice Department indicated that it might do.
Jawad is the young Afghan arrested in 2002 when he was only [...]

Mohammed Jawad has been ordered released after a court ruled his confession coerced, but the Department of Justice is now considering criminal charges based on new evidence.

In my last post on the “eyewitness evidence” the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that military defense lawyer Eric Montalvo said that in his investigation of the Jawad case, he learned that the government’s witnesses “have all received some sort of U.S. [...]

Eric Montalvo, a U.S. Army Marine Corps major and Mohammed Jawad’s military defense lawyer, yesterday sent me a long note about the latest news on his client. Among the most interesting points is his characterization of the evidence the government now says it may use to bring a new criminal prosecution against Jawad.
Jawad, of course, [...]