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{{short description|Pakistani businessman}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Saud Memon
| birth_date = 1961
| death_place = ICU of the Liaquat National hospital
| occupation = Business
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▲ |date = 18 May 2007
'''Saud Memon''' (circa 1961 – 18 May 2007) was a Pakistani<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518>{{cite web |url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070518-1727-pakistan-pearlslaying.html |title = Pakistani owner of shed where Daniel Pearl was slain dies after strange disappearance |author = Zarar Khan|author-link = Zarar Khan |work = [[San Diego Union Tribune]] |date = 18 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070820170700/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070518-1727-pakistan-pearlslaying.html |archive-date = 20 August 2007 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=dailytimes20070519>{{cite news |pages = 1 |url = http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2007_pg1_10 |title = Saud Memon dies in hospital |publisher = [[Daily Times (Pakistan)]] |author = [[Azaz Syed]], [[Abbas Naqvi]] |date = 19 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080203090009/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2007_pg1_10 |archive-date = 3 February 2008 |access-date = 10 November 2007 |url-status = dead |df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=AsiaTimes20070523>{{cite news |url = http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE23Df01.html |title = Mystery 'missings' haunt Pakistan |publisher = [[Asia Times]] |author = Syed Saleem Shahzad|author-link = Syed Saleem Shahzad |date = 23 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101101021103/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE23Df01.html |archive-date = 1 November 2010 |access-date = 18 November 2007 |url-status = unfit |df = dmy-all}}</ref> businessman from [[Karachi]] dealing in yarn and textiles.<ref name="dawn.com">[http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/19/local3.htm KARACHI: Key suspect in Daniel Pearl case dies]</ref> Memon was said to own the [[Al-Qaeda safe houses, Karachi|Al-Qaeda safe house in Karachi]] where American journalist [[Daniel Pearl]] was killed.<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518/> Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and subsequently buried. However, Memon was never formally charged.
==Disappearance and involvement==
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In April 2005, it was reported that Memon was one of the trustees of Al-Akhtar Trust International, a charity, the [[United States Treasury]] asserted, had tied to [[al Qaeda]] and the [[Taliban]].<ref name=DailyTimes20050419>
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|title = Suspect in Daniel Pearl Murder Died After U.S. Interrogation
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According to Memon's family, he was abducted in March 2003 from [[South Africa]] by [[FBI]] agents<ref name="amnesty.org">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/pakistan/report-2008 Pakistan – Amnesty International Report 2008]</ref> while on a business trip and later brought to Pakistan and held by intelligence agencies. His brother, Mahmood Memon, said the family learned only this year from another detainee, who had been released that Memon was in Pakistan
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A review of [[Bernard-Henri Lévy]]'s book ''Who killed Daniel Pearl?'', published in the ''[[Asia Times]]'' on 28 June 2003 said:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030629230648/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EF28Df02.html Book Review: Who killed Daniel Pearl? ]</ref>
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Mr. Mansfield of the [[CIA]] declined to comment on Memon's case, saying, "The C.I.A. does not, as a rule, comment on allegations regarding who has, or has not, been in its custody."<ref name="nytimes.com"/>
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Human rights groups have said they suspect that Memon and several others were held in secret [[extrajudicial detention]] by Pakistani intelligence agents probing Pearl's slaying.<ref name=SanDiegoUnionTribune20070518/>
In December 2014, when the [[United States Senate]] [[United States Senate Intelligence Committee|Intelligence Committee]] published its [[Senate Intelligence Committee report
[[Amina Masood Janjua]], Memon's lawyer and a human rights activist for missing Pakistanis, said, Memon was in the custody of Pakistani intelligence officials. A senior police official named Manzoor Mughal, investigating Pearl's murder, denied knowing that Memon had ever been in Pakistani custody.<ref>[http://www.karachipage.com/news/May_07/051907.html Owner of shed where Pearl was slain dies]</ref>
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==Torture controversy==
An article from the 12 November 2007 issue of the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' quoted an unnamed senior US counter-terrorism official, who said
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The ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' also quoted an unnamed Pakistani official who said that Saud Memon was held in the American [[Bagram Theater detention facility]], and that he was already in poor condition, when the Americans repatriated him to Pakistani custody.<ref name=AgenceFrancePresse20071113/>
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Human rights organisation, [[Amnesty International]], also expressed concerns about the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of people remained unclear and they were feared to be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment referring to Memon and his whereabouts during 2003–2007 and his death.<ref name="amnesty.org"/> They were said Memon contracted tuberculosis while in alleged US custody.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/013/2008/en/#sdfootnote76sym Document – United States of America: A case to answer. From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari]</ref>
[[International Federation for Human Rights]] (FIDH) also noted Memon as one of the missing persons to resurface, as victims of abuse "revealing the existence of centers and places of illegal detention, [[inhuman or degrading treatment|inhuman and degrading treatment]] suffered, and confessions extracted under torture."<ref>[http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Pakistan514ang2008.pdf FiDH report 2007-2008]</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Bagram torture and prisoner abuse]]
* [[List of solved missing person cases: post-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]
* [[Forced disappearances in Pakistan|Missing persons (Pakistan)]]
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| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/09/here-are-the-names-of-the-119-prisoners-who-were-detained-in-the-cias-secret-prisons-program/
| title = Here are the names of the 119 prisoners who were detained in the CIA's secret prisons program
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| author = Swati Sharma, Julie Tate
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| quote = The Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's interrogation and detention program for the first time released the names of all the prisoners who were detained in secret prisons around the world. Of the 119, 20 names were previously unknown.
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| title = CIA Torture: A list of the 28 detainees held by
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| quote = Two prisoners held by the CIA during this period were released and later died in Pakistan: one, Hassan Ghul, was reportedly killed by a drone, while Saud Memon – captured in the first quarter of 2004 – reappeared in April 2007. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, he was badly injured and had "lost all his senses". He died soon afterwards.
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| url = http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/CIA-may-have-paid-SA-lump-sum-for-torture-centres-20141212
| title = CIA may have paid SA 'lump sum' for torture centres
| publisher = [[News24 (website)|News24]]
| author = Emma Thelwell
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| quote = According to a study by the Open Society Foundations, South Africa is known to have participated in the CIA secret detention of Saud Memon, a Pakistani suspected in the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The study claimed that in 2003 South Africa appeared to give US intelligence agencies "carte blanche" to pursue Memon, abduct him and transfer him to Pakistan.
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