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The family of Gul Rahman is still trying to recover his remains for burial, months after learning that he was stripped naked, doused in cold water and then left to die in a CIA-run Afghan prison known as the Salt Pit.
Suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, Rahman was picked up in the early morning hours of Oct 29, 2002 from a home in Islamabad and taken with four other people to a CIA black site called the Salt Pit near the Kabul Airport.
Rahman died Nov 20, 2002, but his death was not known until revealed by an Associated Press investigation in March.
Since then, appeals by his family - Afghan refugees living in Pakistan since the 1980s - for his remains have gone unanswered.
'It has been a mental torture for his family,' said Dr Gharat Baheer, who was picked up with Gul Rahman.
Dr Baheer spent six months at the Salt Pit and six years in Afghan prisons before being released in 2008. Dr Baheer said the family has yet to even receive confirmation of his death from the United States.
'His wife and his mother are in agony,' said Dr Baheer. 'They want to have a religious ceremony.'
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