Nađa Dizdarević

Who is Nađa Dizdarević?

Nađa Dizdarević is a Bosnian citizen. She is known for the efforts she has made to draw the world's attention to the extrajudicial capture and detention of her husband, Hadj Boudella. Boudella was captured by American intelligence officials, and transported to detention in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Dizdarević has organized demonstrations, sit-ins, and hunger strikes, to draw public attention to her husband's case. Dizdarević collapsed and was hospitalized ending her most recent hunger strike, on December 9, 2005.

On January 23, 2006, Dizdarević laid kidnapping charges against former Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdžija, former Minister of the Interior Tomislav Limov, the warden of the prison where her husband and the others identified as the "Algerian Six" were held, and various other employees of the Interior Ministry.

On January 30, 2006, Dizdarević was interviewed by the German magazine Der Spiegel. In her interview, she asserted that her husband's lawyers could not inquire too closely about the conditions of his detention, or he would be punished. But she had been assured by other detainees, who had been released, that Guantánamo guards had regularly shown disrespect to the Qur'an. She had asserted, just as firmly, that the guards were routinely beating children in Camp Iguana.