Whereas United States citizen Mahmood Habibi has lived a noble life in service of his home country Afghanistan, by contributing to the aviation needs of the Afghan population; Whereas Mahmood Habibi hoped to build up Afghanistan and work for the future of Afghans; Whereas Mahmood Habibi was a dedicated civil aviation engineer who worked for the United States Federal Aviation Administration in Afghanistan and went on to serve as head of Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Authority; Whereas, in 2019, Mahmood Habibi began pursuing his master’s degree at Georgetown University and joined ARX Communications, a Virginia-based telecommunications firm responsible for operating the infrastructure of Afghanistan’s civilian airports; Whereas Mahmood Habibi is known to his family, friends, colleagues, and associates as a loving husband and father, as well as a kind, intelligent man; Whereas Mahmood Habibi was arrested by the Taliban in August 2022, because the Taliban made an assumption that Mahmood Habibi’s employer might have been involved in the United States drone strike in Kabul that killed an Al-Qaeda leader; Whereas Mahmood Habibi was arrested outside his home in Afghanistan while the Taliban searched his home and took his laptop and paperwork; Whereas, on August 10, 2022, Mahmood Habibi and 30 of his ARX colleagues were in Afghanistan for business and were detained by the Taliban; Whereas the Taliban-run General Directorate of Intelligence ( GDI ) interrogated Mahmood Habibi and 30 of his colleagues, eventually releasing 29 of them except Mahmood Habibi and one of his colleagues; Whereas the Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications have admitted Mahmood Habibi is in the hands of the GDI, but the Taliban continue to refuse to acknowledge that they are holding him captive; Whereas the Taliban detained Mahmood Habibi and have held him captive without explanation, being charged with a crime, or granting him due process in any judicial proceedings