Mamdouh Habib

Mamdouh Habib was arrested on October 5th 2001 in Karachi, Pakistan. From there he was rendered first to Egypt, where he was tortured for months, then to Afghanistan and ultimately to Guantánamo Bay.

According to his wife, Mamdouh Habib travelled to Pakistan because they were thinking of resettling there and he wanted to look at schools for their children. Instead he was detained in a Pakistani prison, beaten, humiliated and interrogated by American agents.

In November, Mamdouh was transferred to Egypt where, for the next five months, his Egyptian captors shocked him with high-voltage wires, hung him from metal hooks on walls and beat him. Eventually he was handed over into US custody in Afghanistan and sent from there to Guantánamo Bay.

According to three British men who were in Guantánamo - Rhuhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul - Mamdouh Habib was in “catastrophic shape” when he arrived at Guantánamo: most of his fingernails were missing, and he regularly bled from his nose, mouth and ears while sleeping.