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Newsweek
January 10, 2018
The oldest prisoner at the detention facility, 70-year-old Saifullah Paracha, told Newsweek in November that life at the center had become a new hell for prisoners under the Trump administration. Paracha claimed that under the new administration, military officials are allowing hunger strikers to weakenÃâà...
Newsweek
December 21, 2017
The oldest prisoner at the facility, 70-year-old Saifullah Paracha, told Newsweek last month that the facility was becoming a new hell under the Republican leader. “We are getting collective punishment because of the hunger strike,” he told Newsweek via his lawyer. (Inmates are rarely allowed visitors andÃâà...
The Independent
December 15, 2017
The oldest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has been refused permission to read a book on pacifism and non-violence written by relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks. A lawyer for 70-year-old Saifullah Paracha, who has suffered two heart attacks during his 13 years of incarceration and never been charged,Ãâà...
Newsweek
November 18, 2017
11_14_Saifullah Paracha This handout photo of Saifullah Paracha, father of Uzair Paracha, who is being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Getty Images. He claims that under the new administration, military officials are allowing hunger-strikers to weaken past the point of medical intervention,Ãâà...
Miami Herald
August 17, 2017
The war-on-terror prison's oldest captive, a former Pakistani businessmen, turned 70 Thursday. Like President Donald Trump, he once lived in Queens. Forever prisoner Saifullah Paracha was captured in Thailand in July 2003. After being taken to a U.S. detention site in Afghanistan, he was brought to thisÃâà...
DAWN.com
July 15, 2017
Uzair's father, Saifullah Paracha, was accused of using his business connections to help smuggle bomb-making chemicals into the US and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Despite his son's statement regarding his father's sympathies with OBL, and his knowledge that the main suspect Majid was connected to AlÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 26, 2017
Yesterday, in a short per curiam opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District Columbia that the lower court had no jurisdiction over a motion by Guantanamo detainee Saifullah Paracha to hold certain statutory provisions unconstitutional asÃâà...
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