ICRC reps meet Azeri captive in Guantanamo

Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met last month with the Azerbaijani national, who has been kept in the US jail in Guantanamo, Cuba since 2002.

The family of 30-year-old Polad Sirajov, who was taken captive together with Taliban insurgents in Mazari-Sharif, Afghanistan, in January 2002, has been elaborated on the meeting, the ICRC office in Baku said.

During the monitoring held in the Guantanamo jail, the ICRC representatives also got familiar with the physical and psychological states of the captives being withheld there.

Sirajov has graduated from the economy faculty of the Erciyez University in Turkey and worked for a while in a Turkish company operating in Russia. He is believed to have gone to Afghanistan in 1999 and joined the Taliban movement. He was providing its members with food supplies.*