“The stigma of Guantanamo”: families of prisoners become outcasts in society

family members of the prisoners of the Guantanamo prison are branded as “terrorists”, they become outcasts of society and undergo discrimination.

This was in an interview with the Anadol agency said Javvad Rabbani, the son of the former prisoner Guantanamo Ahmed Rabbani.

According to the 20-year-old Javad, his father was taken from the house in Karachi Pakistani police, he was delivered to Guantanamo in 2002. However, according to the Republic of Guantanamo of the US Senate of 2012, he was arrested erroneously, taking for a man named Hassan Gul.

Javad said that family members were deprived of the opportunity to meet with Ahmed Rabbani for many years. “I was 6 years old when I first talked with my father in the video chat. I did not understand anything, because I was very small, but when I became older, I started to miss my father more,” he said.

According to him, since 2005 they talked with the father of video communication for 15 minutes every 6 months with the permission of the court. During communication, Javad felt constrained, because under the influence of propaganda in the media he considered his father guilty.

Rabbani said that he could not talk about conversations with his father, except for his family members, so as not to be subjected to persecution in society.

“I did not tell anyone that my father was serving a conclusion in Guantanamo because I was afraid of public pressure. If I had told about this at school or somewhere else, I would be accused of the fact that I am the son of a terrorist. In 2019 I spoke about my father in an interview with my father. However, dozens of messages entered the channel, which stated that the United States allegedly would never send the wrong person to Guantanamo. Most of the Pakistanis believe that the United States is struggling with terrorists and will not arrive It is unfair to anyone. No one believes that the United States can mistaken a person in jail, they trust America so, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.