Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, a Saudi who has been in US custody since 2002, is charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism and material support for terrorism based on alleged connections to al-Qaeda that date back to 1996.

Human Rights Watch expects the use of evidence allegedly obtained through abuse to be a central concern in his case. Al-Darbi was held in the US detention center at Bagram, Afghanistan for eight months in late 2002 and 2003, during the period when some of the worst abuses took place there. Al-Darbi has said that while at Bagram, US soldiers kicked him, beat him, dragged him around by his calves, and hung him by his wrists for days on end. Al-Darbi's claims were deemed credible enough for the US military to accept them in written form as testimony in the May 2006 courts-martial of Damien Corsetti, a specialist in the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion who was accused of abusing detainees at Bagram detention center.

Human Rights Watch Commentary:

• Stacy Sullivan commentary, "Goodbye to Guantánamo?" salon.com, December 23, 2008
• Human Rights Watch press release, "US: Move New Guantanamo Cases to Federal Courts," March 10, 2008
• Human Rights Watch briefing paper section, "List of ‘Ghost Prisoners' Possibly in CIA Custody," December 1, 2005

Military Commissions Documents:

• General Information Page
• Charges Sworn - December 20, 2007
• Referred charges - March 3, 2008

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