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Former Egyptian Guantanamo detainee El-Gazar returns home Detained in Afghanistan following an American airstrike in the wake of September 11, Adel El-Gazar lands in Cairo
Adel El-Gazar, who was detained for many years in the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp, finally arrived back in Egypt Monday. He was arrested by US army forces in Afghanistan after the September 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon in 2001. El-Gazar travelled to Pakistan in 2000 to teach the Quran. After the US waged its war against terrorism he voluntarily moved to Afghanistan to help the refugees through the Red Crescent, according to media reports. However, he was severely injured during an American airstrike on Afghanistan and was later hospitalised in Pakistan for a month before being captured by US military forces. El-Gazar was transferred to an Afghani-based US prison even before fully recovering. Eleven days later he was taken to Guantanamo Bay. Allegedly, El-Gazar was tortured on a daily basis, suffering from periodic beatings, being hung by his wrists from the ceiling and sleep deprivation. Furthermore, lack of medical attention caused his leg to become gangrenous and had to be surgically amputated. In 2010, El-Gazar was released from Guantanamo only to be transferred to another facility in Slovakia, where he spent another six months. He was freed after going on a hunger strike in protest over his detention in Slovakia, which was widely rebuked as illegal. El-Gazar, who was sentenced in absentia to three years in jail by a military court after being found guilty of being a member of the underground terrorist group El-Waad, came to Egypt straight from the central European country.
