Mohammed Saghir

Pakistani Guantanamo detainee

Mohammed Saghir (also transliterated Mohammed Sanghir) is an elderly Pakistani who was held by the U. S. military in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 143. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1952, in Kohestan, Pakistan. When The Guardian interviewed Saghir, following his release, on October 22, 2002, they estimated he was in his sixties. Saghir was one of the first four detainees to be released from Guantanamo. He was the first Pakistani to be released from Guantanamo. Saghir was released together with two even more elderly Afghan men, and one younger Afghan man.

No documents about Mr. Saghir had been made public, as he was released before the Combatant Status Review Tribunals began. On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. Saghir's assessment was dated September 27, 2002, and was two pages long. His assessment was signed by camp commandant Michael E. Dunlavey who recommended release or transfer to the control of another country. Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, repeated the justification for Saghir's detention "his knowledge of General Dostum's treatment of captured personnel transported from Kunduz to Sheberghan". Worthington called it " a low point in the feeble reasons given for transfer to Guantánamo, as it involved US forces suggesting that they took him halfway round the world to an experimental prison outside the law simply to find out more about how their close ally had been murdering prisoners of war."