Alan Pfeuffer is an American lawyer who volunteered to serve Guantanamo detainees. He has spent twenty years as a police officer, ascended to the police chief, before embarking on a legal career.
Pfeuffer is Head of Edgewater, Colorado, Police Department. He focuses on advanced narcotics investigation techniques. Pfeuffer retired from the Police Department in 1997.
Pfeuffer works in Columbus, Ohio, the office of the Federal Public Defender.
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Guantanamo Client
Afgan Pfeuffer's clients are Ahsanallah Pirzai and Abdul Ahmad. In October 2005 a US District Court judge in Washington, D.C. received handwritten notes from Pirzai and Ahmad, asserting that they were innocent. He then assigned the two men to Pfeuffer. However, on May 30, 2007, Pfeuffer could not visit men, call, or write to them.
Pfeuffer mengatakan kepada The Columbus Dispatch :
I do not know if they know I exist,
Pfeuffer filed a complaint on behalf of the two men on January 4, 2006.
The Justice Department believes that the Prisoner Treatment Law prohibits prisoners from starting new habeas corpus applications.
According to Columbus Dispatch Pfeuffer then decided to examine publicly available information, including cases dating from the 18th century, and thousands of pages of DoD transcripts released on March 3, 2006. Pfeuffer went to Afghanistan on August 1, 2006, to interview witnesses who knew the two men.
Two men from the village of Ahmad are able to confirm that he is a school teacher, as he has stated, who have never had a relationship with the Taliban.
On August 26, 2006 Pfeuffer received an email from the Justice Department attorney, telling him that Pirzai had been released. In February 2007 Pfeuffer was informed that Ahmad had also been released. Pfeuffer told Columbus Dispatch that he did not know whether the men were released, whether they had been transferred to Afghan custody, or whether they were still at Guantanamo.
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