Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was held briefly at the CIA's 'Salt Pit' prison in Afghanistan before being transferred to the 'Cat's Eye' black site in Thailand, arriving on Nov. 15, 2002.
Sources
- Scenes From a Black Site - ProPublica (propublica.org)
- https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/prisoners/nashiri.html (therenditionproject.org.uk)
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia-intelligence-torture-archive/2018-08-10/gina-haspel-cia-torture-cables-declassified (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
- https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-112302 (hudoc.echr.coe.int)
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