Azerbaijani Guantanamo detainee to be handed over to Azerbaijan

Elchin Behbudov, head of the Azerbaijan Committee Against Torture informs that Polad Sirajov is expected to be handed over to Azerbaijan soon. Behbudov also said Polad's family was told about his condition by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Sirajov's mother Lutfiyya Sirajova refused to answer the questions of APA regarding his son.

Azerbaijani citizen Polad Sabir Sirajov, who is detained in the Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba, and named as Masud in the list released by the Pentagon, was born in 1975. He entered Arciyaz University, Turkey, faculty of economics and office studies in 1992.

On graduating from the University in 1996, Sirajov worked as a translator for a Turkish building company in Moscow.

The ICRC informed Sirajov's family on January 30, 2002 that he was arrested together with Taliban members in Mazari-Sharif, Afghanistan, APA reports.