 He was transferred to Guantananmo on January 17, 2002.He was repatriated to Bangladeshi custody on December 15, 2006.Hashem's father, the Imam of the Graphics Art College Mosque in Mohammadpur in Dhaka, sent his son to Pakistan for further religious training in 1998, after he graduated from the
Jamiya Rahmaniya Arabia Madrassah at Lalmatia in Dhaka.