PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Hamidullah Khan left his home in Karachi and went on an errand to the family village on the Afghan border four years ago.<br/> <br />The 14-year-old called from the bus stop to say he was on his way home and then disappeared.<br/> <br />Through the Red Cross Hamidullah's family learned he was in a U.S. military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan. They sometimes talk by phone now, but the conversation is limited.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: FATHER OF HAMIDULLAH KHAN, WAKEEL KHAN SAYING (Urdu):<br/> <br />"The phone calls get disconnected whenever I ask about his well-being in Bagram."<br/> <br />A Pakistan government memo says he was taken into custody for "attacks on coalition forces". His family doesn't know when he will be released.<br/> <br />According to a U.N. report, more than 2,500 juveniles have been detained in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay by the United States since 2001.<br/> <br />Pakistan says there are three still in Bagram, the U.S. says there is only one. Some have grown into adults behind prison walls.<br/> <br />The foreign detainees in Bagram do not have trials. A review board staffed by U.S. military officers evaluates evidence against them and assesses whether they might pose a future threat to U.S. forces.<br/> <br />The U.S won't comment on specific juvenile detainees but stresses the centre's humane treatment of those being held.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENCE FOR MEDIA OPERATIONS CAPTAIN JOHN KIRBY SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"Again, you'll have to let us take that question. And, obviously, we hold ourselves to a pretty high standard of -- of -- of detention operations and humane treatment of those that we have detained."<br/> <br />No decision has yet been reached on what will happen to the 50-plus foreign prisoners in Bagram when the U.S. hands full control of the prison to the Afghan government in September.<br/> <br />Masako Iijima, Reuters
