Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri | |
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Born | [1]
[2] Mecca, Saudi Arabia | December 26, 1977
Arrested | 2001 Pakistan Pakistani border officials |
Released | 2016-04-16 Saudi Arabia |
Citizenship | Yemen |
ISN | 324 |
Charge(s) | extrajudicial detention |
Status | transferred to Saudi Arabia |
Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri (born December 26, 1977) is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba until April 16, 2016. [3] Al Sabri's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 324.
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 12-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on September 15, 2008. [11] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention.
Al Sabri and eight other Yemenis were transferred to Saudi Arabia on April 16, 2016. [12] [13] [14]
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.
The United States has transferred nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the US military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a hunger strike since 2007, US officials said.
It also comes ahead of Obama's planned trip to Saudi Arabia next week.
Saturday's release marks the largest transfer since 10 Yemenis were sent to Oman in January. It is the first time Saudi Arabia has taken any former Guantanamo inmates.