Moazzam Begg
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| Born | 1968 (age 48–49) Sparkhill, Birmingham, Warwickshire, UK |
| Arrested | February 2002 Islamabad, Pakistan Pakistani intelligence(Inter-Services Intelligence) |
| Released | 26 January 2005 Paddington Green Police Station, London, England, UK |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom, Pakistan |
| Detained at | Kandahar; Bagram; Guantanamo Bay detention camp |
| Charge(s) | None |
| Status | Released |
| Occupation | Outreach director of CAGE |
| Spouse | Zaynab Begg |
| Parents | Azmat Begg (father) |
| Children | 4 |
Moazzam Begg (Urdu: مُعَظّم بیگ; born 1968 in Sparkhill, Birmingham) is a British Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for nearly three years. Seized by Pakistani intelligence at his home in Pakistan in February 2002, he was transferred to the custody of US Army officers, who held him in the detention centre at Bagram, Afghanistan, before transferring him to Guantanamo Bay, where he was held until January 2005.
The US authorities held Begg as an enemy combatant, claiming Begg was an al-Qaeda member, who recruited for, and provided money for, al-Qaeda training camps, and himself trained there to fight US or allied troops. Begg acknowledged having spent time at two non-al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and given some financial support to fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya, but denies that he was ever involved in terrorism.
Begg says that he was abused by guards at Bagram, and saw two detainees beaten to death. Military coroners ruled that the two deaths were homicides, but US military spokesmen denied Begg's story at the time. Later, a 2005 military investigation into reports of abuse at Bagram concluded that both deaths were caused by abuse by American guards.
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