[1] Ahmad was then held in military custody at the detention facility at the United States Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan for 11 months without access to a lawyer.
As a result of advocacy by his friends and family, and a habeas corpus petition [1] filed by the International Justice Network, Jojo was released on September 21, 2008 after almost a year of being held in U.S.
His education, and language skills, allowed him to start working as a translator for United States forces shortly after the overthrow of the Taliban.
According to Eliza Griswold in The New Republic their status is determined by the base commander, who may convene a more secret, less formal, less thorough procedure called an "Enemy Combatant Review Board".
And, thanks to such limited access to justice, many former detainees say they have no idea why they were either detained or released.The Washington Post reported on June 29, 2008 on comments Tina Monshipour Foster made about Jawed Ahmad's detention in Bagram.
On March 10, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) issued a statement [12] saying Jawad was killed by being "gunned down .... by two men in a vehicle as he was getting out of his own car in the centre of the southern city of Kandahar."
The statement said, "Several Afghan journalists told Reporters Without Borders they suspected the murder may have been ordered by the Taliban," but a Kandahar provincial government spokesman "offered no details."