The Daily Populous Tuesday October 15th, 2024 day edition
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Sami1398 on October 15th, 2024 at 09:58 UTC »

Dilawar )was an innocent taxi driver who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time. At Bagram, Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell, and suspended by his wrists for four days. His arms became dislocated from their sockets, and flapped around limply whenever guards collected him for interrogation. During his detention, Dilawar's legs were beaten to a pulp. They would have had to have been amputated because damage was so severe. He died on December 10, 2002, five days after he was arrested. He is survived by his wife and their daughter, Bibi Rashida.

The New York Times reported that: On the day of his death, Dilawar had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days. A guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling. "Leave him up," one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying. Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned that most of the interrogators had in fact believed Mr. Dilawar to be an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time

His death was declared a homicide and was the subject of a major investigation by the US Army of abuses at the prison. It was prosecuted in the Bagram torture and prisoner abuse trials. In August 2005, lead interrogator Specialist Glendale C. Walls of the U.S. Army pleaded guilty at a military court to pushing Dilawar against a wall and doing nothing to prevent other soldiers from abusing him. Walls was subsequently sentenced to two months in a military prison. The sentence was criticized by Human Rights Watch.

An HBO documentary on his death "Taxi to the dark side" was released in 2008 detailing his torture and death:

Full documentary on youtube: Taxi to the Dark Side⎜WHY DEMOCRACY?⎜(Documentary)

Ecstatic_Feature_425 on October 15th, 2024 at 10:19 UTC »

Literally the only punishment for the people who killed him was a reduction in rank for one of them, and a $1000 fine.

xntebli on October 15th, 2024 at 10:57 UTC »

How many Dilawar we never knew about...