World Prisons
All persons

Jawed Ahmad

1986–2009

Occupation
journalist

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Parwan Detention Facility
    Dates unknown
  2. Sarposa prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Jawed Ahmad (1986 – March 10, 2009) also known as "Jojo" was an Afghan reporter working for Canadian media outlet CTV who was arrested by American troops and declared an enemy combatant, while working with NATO at Kandahar Airport on October 26, 2007. Ahmad was then held in military custody at the detention facility at the United States Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan for 11 months without access to a lawyer. As a result of advocacy by his friends and family, and a habeas corpus petition [1] filed by the International Justice Network, Jojo was released on September 21, 2008 after almost a year of being held in U.S. custody.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

  • Julian Hessenthaler
    Julian Hessenthaler
    1980Austria
  • Muhammad Saad Iqbal
    Muhammad Saad Iqbal
    1977Pakistan
  • Mikhail Makarov
    1962–1988Soviet Union

    Mikhail Olegovich Makarov (Russian: Михаи́л Оле́гович Мака́ров; 12 March 1962 – 1988), known as The Executioner (Russian: Палач), was a Soviet serial killer, who from February to May 1986 committed three murders and one attempted murder in Leningrad.

  • Salvador Franco
    1977–2021Venezuela

    Salvador Franco (c.

  • Hussam Abu Safiya
    1973Palestine
  • Abdul Majid Muhammed
    1978

    Abdul Majid Muhammed (Persian: عبدالمجید محمد) is a citizen of Iran who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 555.

External references