43 Facts About Mohamed Jawad

Mohamed Jawad, an Afghan refugee born in 1985 in Miranshah, Pakistan, was accused of attempted murder before a Guantanamo military commission on charges that he threw a grenade at a passing American convoy on December 17,2002.

Mohamed Jawad insists that he had been hired to help remove landmines from the war-torn region, and that a colleague had thrown the grenade.

Mohamed Jawad was held in extrajudicial detention first at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan and then at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Cuba, from 2003 until 2009.

Mohamed Jawad was ordered released after a successful petition for a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Ellen Huvelle of the US District Court in Washington, DC, on July 30,2009.

Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey D Gordon disputed these claims, saying that bone scans performed when Jawad arrived at Guantanamo established that the youth was about eighteen at the time.

Mohamed Jawad's father was killed in a battle in Khost, Afghanistan called, Battle for Hill 3234, in January 1988 during the Afghan-Soviet War.

Relatives say Mohamed Jawad was born six months later in an Afghan refugee camp in Miran Shah, Pakistan, where they continued to live.

Mohamed Jawad was studying at a sixth or seventh-grade level at a school which United States agents later described as "Jihadi".

Mohamed Jawad was promised 12,000 Pakistani rupees to help clear Soviet-era mines from the region.

Mohamed Jawad agreed, but said he needed to gain his mother's permission to travel.

Some of his relatives tried to discourage him, saying Mohamed Jawad was too young for a job.

Mohamed Jawad's mother was not around and he decided to accompany the men.

Mohamed Jawad was held at Bagram prison and interrogated from December 2002 until February 2003.

Mohamed Jawad was transported to Guantanamo Bay detention camp in February 2003.

Military records show Mohamed Jawad tried to kill himself on December 25,2003, by repeatedly banging his head against a cell wall.

Mohamed Jawad said that guards had subjected him to sleep deprivation.

At the time of his capture in Afghanistan in December 2002, Mohamed Jawad was weighed at 130 pounds.

Mohamed Jawad is one of the detainees whose inprocess date at Guantanamo is missing.

Mohamed Jawad's weight was recorded 23 times between August 2003 and November 2006.

Mohamed Jawad's article discussed the question of ethics of health professionals supporting severe interrogation techniques and treatment in Guantanamo.

Mohamed Jawad appears to be rather frightened, and it looks as if he could break easily if he were isolated from his support network and made to rely solely on the interrogator.

Wills described how Mohamed Jawad was moved to cell blocks where he didn't speak any of the languages of the captives, in order to increase his feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Mohamed Jawad said the youth was punished for trying to speak to his fellow captives.

Mohamed Jawad testified that during these weeks, he was subjected to blaring loud music and bright lights at all times.

The memo stated that Mohamed Jawad was from Miran Shah, Pakistan and was recruited by six men in the local mosque to clear Russian mines in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Mohamed Jawad had his Personal Representative read from notes from a previous interview at his CSRT hearing.

In October 2007 Mohamed Jawad was charged before a Guantanamo military commission for attempted murder for allegedly throwing a grenade into a US military vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 17,2002.

Mohamed Jawad was the fourth detainee to face charges under commissions authorized by the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

On October 17,2007, Mohamed Jawad was charged with three counts of attempted murder in violation of the law of war and three counts of intentionally causing bodily injury in violation of the law of war.

Mohamed Jawad refused to appear at his arraignment in March 2008.

Mohamed Jawad was forcibly removed from his cell and brought to the commission hearing room.

Mohamed Jawad had intervened to move Jawad's case forward in the military commission priorities because wounded victims were available for possible testimony from California.

Mohamed Jawad filed a four-page declaration with the court that stated "potentially exculpatory evidence has not been provided" to the defense in the Jawad case.

Mohamed Jawad was the fourth military prosecutor to resign because of problems with the system of military tribunals.

Henley determined that the two confessions Mohamed Jawad made to Afghan and US officials on December 17,2002, were both inadmissible due to being obtained as a result of torture and intimidation.

Mohamed Jawad was represented by Joshua Haifetz of the American Civil Liberties Union.

On July 17,2009, Judge Huvelle ruled that the Mohamed Jawad's confessions were coerced, and thus inadmissible.

Mohamed Jawad gave the Department of Justice a deadline of July 24,2009, to produce another justification for holding Jawad as an enemy combatant.

Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported on July 28,2009 that Mohamed Jawad has been transferred to Camp Iguana at Guantanamo.

Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reports that Mohamed Jawad was repatriated on August 24,2009.

Mohamed Jawad was first sent for questioning to the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, a former Soviet facility.

Major Eric Montalvo, a former military defense counsel, said that Mohamed Jawad was scheduled to meet with President Hamid Karzai.

Mohamed Jawad was to be released into the custody of an uncle, Hajji Gul Naik.