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{{Short description|Citizen of Tunisia held in extra-judicial detention by the United States}}
{{for | the individual formerly held in Guantanamo | Lufti bin Ali }}
{{Moresources|date=February 2024}}
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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name                = Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi
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| birth_date          = <!-- {{Birth-date and age| birth date }} -->
| birth_place         =
| date_of_arrest      = 2002
| place_of_arrest     = [[Peshawar]], [[Pakistan]]
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| date_of_release     =
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| death_date          = <!-- {{Death-date and age| death date | birth date }} -->
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| detained_at         = [[CIA]] [[black sites]], [[the dark prison]], [[BTIF|Bagram]]
| id_number           = 1209
| group               =
| alias               = *[[Abou Hudeifa]]
*[[Abou Houdayfa]]
| charge              = no charge, [[extrajudicial detention]]
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| status              = [[ghost prisoner]]{{cn|date=February 2024}}
}}
'''Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi''' is a citizen of [[Tunisia]] held in detention by the [[United States]].<ref name=BagramDetainees2010-01-16/><ref name=AndyWorthington2010-01-19/><ref name=TunisiaLive2016-10-09/>
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| date=2007-06
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| archiveurl=https://archive.today/20100125214358/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/893065.html
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On 15 January 2010, the Department of Defense complied with a court order and published a heavily redacted list of [[Captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility]].<ref name=BagramDetainees2010-01-16/> There were 645 names on the list, which was dated 22 September 2009. One of the names was Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi. Historian [[Andy Worthington]], author of ''[[The Guantanamo Files]]'', speculated that Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi may have been a Tunisian, identified by [[human rights]] groups as a [[ghost prisoner]].<ref name=AndyWorthington2010-01-19/>
If so he was captured in late 2002 in [[Peshawar]], [[Pakistan]].<ref name=TunisiaLive2016-10-09/>
Worthington reported this individual was held in the [[CIA]]'s "[[dark prison]]", and several other CIA [[black sites]]. Worthington speculated that he might also have been a Tunisian captive identified by [[Marwan Jabour]], named "[[Hudeifa]]".<ref name=AndyWorthingtonFirstBagramList/>
==Named by the Senate Intelligence Committee as having been tortured without authorization==
On 9 December 2014, the [[United States Senate]] [[United States Senate Intelligence Committee|Intelligence Committee]] published the 600-page unclassified summary of a 6,000-page report on the CIA's use of torture.<ref name=NationalJournal2014-12-10/> While some of the CIA's captives were identified as only been subjected to torture that had been authorized from Washington, other captives, like Al-Gharisi, were identified as having been tortured by CIA officials who did not have authorization. According to the Intelligence Committee, Al-Gharisi ''"underwent at least two 48-hour sessions of sleep deprivation in October 2002."''
On 4 October 2016, the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that Al-Gharisa and another CIA captive asserted that they were subjected to previously unknown techniques.<ref name=NationalPost2016-10-04/> In particular, they asserted that their captors had built what they described as an ''"electric chair"'', they were shown the chair, and threatened that it would be used on them.  They also reported that they too had been subjected to a form of water-boarding, although the CIA claimed waterboarding had only been used on three high-value detainees.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=NationalPost2016-10-04>
{{cite news
| url         = http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/cia-threatened-prisoners-with-makeshift-electric-chair-in-secret-afghan-prison-human-rights-watch
| title       = CIA threatened prisoners with makeshift electric chair in secret Afghan prison: Human Rights Watch
| publisher   = [[National Post]]
| date        = 2016-10-04
| author      = Greg Miller
| accessdate  = 2016-10-13
| quote       =
}}
</ref>
<ref name=AndyWorthingtonFirstBagramList>
{{cite news
|url         = http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/bagram-the-first-ever-prisoner-list-the-annotated-version/
|title       = Bagram: The First Ever Prisoner List (The Annotated Version)
|date        = 2010-01-26
|author      = Andy Worthington
|author-link      = Andy Worthington
|archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100131233933/http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/bagram-the-first-ever-prisoner-list-the-annotated-version/
|archivedate = 2010-01-31
|quote       = It’s also probable that he is “Hudeifa,” a Tunisian prisoner mentioned by Marwan Jabour, who was also held in several secret prisons, but was released in 2006. He later told his story to Human Rights Watch, who published it as a report, “Ghost Prisoner,” in February 2007.
|url-status     = dead
}}
</ref>
<ref name=BagramDetainees2010-01-16>
{{cite web
|url         = https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bagramdetainees.pdf
|title       = Bagram detainees
|publisher   = [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]
|date        = 2009-09-22
|archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100124143455/http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bagramdetainees.pdf
|archivedate = 2010-01-24
|url-status     = dead}}</ref><ref name=NationalJournal2014-12-10>
{{cite news
| url         = http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/what-cia-interrogators-did-to-17-detainees-without-approval-20141210
| title       = What CIA Interrogators Did To 17 Detainees Without Approval
| publisher   = [[National Journal]]
| author      = Emma Roller, Rebecca Nelson
| date        = 2014-12-10
| archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20141211020306/http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/what-cia-interrogators-did-to-17-detainees-without-approval-20141210
| archivedate = 2014-12-11
| accessdate  = 2014-12-10
| url-status     = live
| quote       = Treatment received: "Underwent at least two 48-hour sessions of sleep deprivation in October 2002.}}</ref><ref name=AndyWorthington2010-01-19>
{{cite news
|url         = http://www.truthout.org/dark-revelations-bagram-prisoner-list56189
|title       = Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List
|publisher   = [[truthout]]
|date        = 2010-01-19
|author      = Andy Worthington
|author-link      = Andy Worthington
|archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100123162707/http://www.truthout.org/dark-revelations-bagram-prisoner-list56189
|archivedate = 2010-01-23
|quote       = Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi may be Abou Hudeifa, a Tunisian identified as a 'ghost prisoner' in 'Off the Record,' a report by various human rights groups that was published in June 2007. Al-Libi identified him as Abou Houdayfa, but noted that his real name was Lotfi. Captured in Peshawar, Pakistan, at the end of 2002, he was reportedly held in several CIA prisons in Afghanistan, including the 'Dark Prison,' before being moved to Bagram.
|url-status     = dead}}</ref><ref name=TunisiaLive2016-10-09>{{cite news
|url         = http://www.tunisia-live.net/2016/10/09/scarring-below-the-surface-torture-tunisians-and-the-cia/
|title       = Scarring Below the Surface: Torture, the CIA and Tunisian Nationals
|date        = 2016-10-09
|author      = Inel Tarfa
|archivedate = 2016-10-15
|archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20161015101554/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2016/10/09/scarring-below-the-surface-torture-tunisians-and-the-cia/
|url-status  = dead
|quote       = Lotfi Arabi Gherissi and Ridha Najjar were originally taken captive in Pakistan in 2002, before being transferred to the secret CIA prison called Cobalt in Afghanistan.
|access-date = 2016-10-14}}</ref>
}}
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[[Category:Tunisian expatriates in Pakistan]]
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