Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby | |
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Released | 2016-01-17 Ghana |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 506 |
Charge(s) | No charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
Status | transferred to Ghana in January 2016 |
Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba for almost fourteen years. [1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 506. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Dhuby was born in 1981, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.
He was first recommended for release in 2006. [2] He was transferred to Ghana with fellow Yemeni Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef on January 7, 2016. [3] The pair were the first individuals to be transferred to a sub-Saharan nation of which they were not a citizen.
Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the " war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. [4] In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. [4] [7]
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: [8]
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [9] [10] His 9-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on December 25, 2006. [2] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Harry B Harris Jr. He recommended transfer to another country.
Al Dhudy and Mohammed Bin Atef were transferred to Ghana on January 7, 2016. [11] [3] The transfer stirred controversy, within Ghana.
Eventually it became known that the government of Ghana had assured the USA that they would prevent the men from leaving Ghana for two years. [3]
The two former detainees from Guantanamo Bay currently being hosted in Ghana, may continue to stay in the country until the two-year contract signed between the government of Ghana and the US expires.
Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.
The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
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Al Dhuby, a 34 or 35-year-old citizen of Yemen, also was freed from Gitmo and transferred to Ghana on Jan. 6. He was assessed to be a "medium risk," and the Defense Department described him as a probable member of Al Qaeda who utilized the terrorist travel-network for access to Afghanistan and to receive militant training. Al Dhuby arrived at Gitmo on May 5, 2002.