There were 645 names on the list, which was dated September 22, 2009. One of the names was Ridha Ahmad Najjar. [sic] Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, asserted that this was another transliteration of Redah al-Najar, who he said was captured in May 2002 in Karachi, Pakistan. Worthington reported he was held in the CIA's "dark prison", and several other CIA black sites, including the "Panjshir prison", and two prisons named "Rissat prison" and "Rissat prison 2". al-Najar's incarceration was not revealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross and he was "...forced to spend 22 hours each day with one or both wrists chained to an overhead bar, for two consecutive days, while wearing a diaper."[8]
On 9 December 2014, the United States SenateIntelligence Committee published the names of 39 individuals tortured by the CIA in its archipelago of black sites.[9][10] An individual named Ridha Ahmad Najar was listed as one of individuals the CIA tortured.
On 15 December 15, 2014, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Tina M. Foster, one of Najar's lawyers.[11] In the article she wrote about how a whole section of the Intelligence Committee's report was devoted to Najar. She listed all the torture techniques the CIA used on him, and asserted the CIA had tortured him for nearly 700 days.[citation needed]
On 15 June 2015, he was repatriated to Tunisia by the US Government.[12]
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Dominic Rushe; Ewen MacAskill; Ian Cobain; Alan Yuhas; Oliver Laughland (10 December 2014). "Rectal rehydration and standing on broken limbs: the CIA torture report's grisliest findings". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 December 2014. In April 2006, during a CIA briefing, President George W Bush, expressed discomfort at the "image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself". This man is thought to be Ridha al-Najjar, who was forced to spend 22 hours each day with one or both wrists chained to an overhead bar, for two consecutive days, while wearing a diaper. His incarceration was concealed from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Inel Tarfa (9 October 2016). "Scarring Below the Surface: Torture, the CIA and Tunisian Nationals". Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. 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.
^Tina M. Foster (15 December 2014). "My client, a CIA torture victim". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014. An entire section of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee's executive summary of the CIA torture report focuses on the sadistic abuse of one of my clients. The excerpt, titled "CIA Headquarters Recommends That Untrained Interrogators in Country . . . Use the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on" Redha al-Najar, contains detailed descriptions of the specific methods of torture my client was subjected to while in CIA custody.