17 July, 2010
EU Demands Full and Transparent Investigation into Rwandan Murders.
AFP
17 July 2010
The European Union condemned on Friday the murder of a senior opposition official in Rwanda and urged authorities to clarify the circumstances of the "horrific" killing.
"The European Union firmly condemns the brutal murder of M. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, Vice President of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party on 13 July," the office of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement.
"The European Union urges the Rwandese Authorities to clarify the exact circumstances of this horrific killing and bring the perpetrators rapidly to justice," the statement said.
Three Rwandan opposition parties on Thursday called for an independent international investigation into the murder of Rwisereka and independent journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage.
Rwisereka's nearly decapitated body was found dumped by a river on Wednesday. Rugambage, who was critical of Kagame's government, was shot dead near his home on June 24.
"The European Union also wishes to express its deep concern that three assassinations of public figures have now taken place in Rwanda within the last month," the EU statement said.
"These assassinations have contributed to the deterioration of the political climate and to the emergence of a feeling of fear among the Rwandan citizens.
"The European Union urges the Rwandese authorities to ensure that the investigations and judicial proceedings regarding these murders are carried out with full transparency and as rapidly as possible."
17 July 2010
The European Union condemned on Friday the murder of a senior opposition official in Rwanda and urged authorities to clarify the circumstances of the "horrific" killing.
"The European Union firmly condemns the brutal murder of M. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, Vice President of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party on 13 July," the office of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement.
"The European Union urges the Rwandese Authorities to clarify the exact circumstances of this horrific killing and bring the perpetrators rapidly to justice," the statement said.
Three Rwandan opposition parties on Thursday called for an independent international investigation into the murder of Rwisereka and independent journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage.
Rwisereka's nearly decapitated body was found dumped by a river on Wednesday. Rugambage, who was critical of Kagame's government, was shot dead near his home on June 24.
"The European Union also wishes to express its deep concern that three assassinations of public figures have now taken place in Rwanda within the last month," the EU statement said.
"These assassinations have contributed to the deterioration of the political climate and to the emergence of a feeling of fear among the Rwandan citizens.
"The European Union urges the Rwandese authorities to ensure that the investigations and judicial proceedings regarding these murders are carried out with full transparency and as rapidly as possible."
La FIDH appelle à mettre un terme à l’actuelle vague de violence et demande une enquête indépendante et impartiale sur les assassinats d’opposants.
Fédération Internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (FIDH)
Press Release
16 July 2010
La FIDH condamne avec la plus grande fermeté la vague de violence qui sévit au Rwanda à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle prévue le 9 août 2010. Les assassinats, arrestations et détentions arbitraires, menaces, actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre d’opposants politiques et de journalistes ne cessent de se multiplier, ce qui ne laisse en rien présager de la tenue d’un scrutin libre, transparent et surtout sécurisé.
Le 14 juillet 2010, André Kagwa Rwise-Reka, Vice-Président du Parti Démocratique Vert qui, selon les membres de son parti, avait récemment fait l’objet de menaces, a été retrouvé mort dans le sud du pays. Le 24 juin 2010, c’est Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rédacteur en chef adjoint du bimensuel Umuvugizi et correspondant au Rwanda de Journalistes en Danger (JED), qui a été abattu devant son domicile à Kigali. Le 19 juin 2010, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, ancien chef d’état major de l’armée rwandaise et ancien proche du Président Paul Kagame, a quant à lui échappé à une tentative d’assassinat en Afrique du Sud où il est réfugié depuis février 2010. Ces récents assassinats et tentative d’assassinat sont le reflet d’une dégradation générale de la situation des droits de l’Homme au Rwanda, caractérisée par une répression accrue à l’encontre de toutes les voix contestataires.
L’État du Rwanda, dont le rapport périodique a été examiné en mai 2010 par la Commission africaine des droits de l’Homme et des peuples (CADHP), avait été interpellé par les nombreuses ONG présentes, dont la FIDH, mais également par certains Commissaires, sur la nécessité de garantir les libertés individuelles d’expression, d’opinion et de réunion, de même que la sécurité de tous les citoyens en amont, pendant et après l’élection présidentielle. Aujourd’hui, la FIDH réitère cette interpellation.
«Le Rwanda se félicite souvent des progrès qu’il a réalisés en matière de démocratie et de bonne gouvernance. L’escalade de la violence et de la répression que connaît le pays à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle démontre au contraire qu’il y a encore très peu de place pour le respect des libertés individuelles des citoyens rwandais » a déclaré Souhayr Belhassen, Présidente de la FIDH.
La FIDH appelle les autorités rwandaises à:
• Faire toute la lumière, par le biais d’une enquête indépendante et impartiale, sur les circonstances des assassinats de André Kagwa Rwise-Reka et Jean-Léonard Rugambage ; à poursuivre et punir les auteurs de ces crimes ;
• Prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires, dans le respect des normes régionales et internationales de protection des droits de l’Homme, pour mettre un terme aux actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre des opposants politiques, des journalistes et des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme;
• Se conformer aux dispositions de la Résolution adoptée en mai 2010 par la CADHP sur les élections en Afrique, en particulier celles appelant les États parties à « veiller à ce que toutes les parties concernées, en particulier les partis d’opposition, puissent mener leur campagne librement, sans violence, ni intimidation », et à « veiller à protéger, avant, pendant et après les élections, les journalistes, les défenseurs des droits de l’Homme, les observateurs et superviseurs électoraux des intimidations et autres abus des droits humains».
• Ratifier la Charte africaine de la démocratie, des élections et de la gouvernance et à en respecter l’ensemble des dispositions.
La FIDH appelle en outre les Chefs d’État et de Gouvernement de l’Union africaine, réunis à Kampala, Ouganda, du 19 au 27 juillet 2010, à l’occasion de leur 15ème Sommet, à condamner publiquement et avec la plus grande fermeté les assassinats de André Kagwa Rwise-Reka et de Jean-Léonard Rugambage et à appeler les autorités rwandaises à prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour mettre un terme immédiat aux actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre des opposants politiques, des journalistes et des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme et pour garantir l’intégrité physique de l’ensemble des citoyens lors du prochain scrutin.
Press Release
16 July 2010
La FIDH condamne avec la plus grande fermeté la vague de violence qui sévit au Rwanda à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle prévue le 9 août 2010. Les assassinats, arrestations et détentions arbitraires, menaces, actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre d’opposants politiques et de journalistes ne cessent de se multiplier, ce qui ne laisse en rien présager de la tenue d’un scrutin libre, transparent et surtout sécurisé.
Le 14 juillet 2010, André Kagwa Rwise-Reka, Vice-Président du Parti Démocratique Vert qui, selon les membres de son parti, avait récemment fait l’objet de menaces, a été retrouvé mort dans le sud du pays. Le 24 juin 2010, c’est Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rédacteur en chef adjoint du bimensuel Umuvugizi et correspondant au Rwanda de Journalistes en Danger (JED), qui a été abattu devant son domicile à Kigali. Le 19 juin 2010, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, ancien chef d’état major de l’armée rwandaise et ancien proche du Président Paul Kagame, a quant à lui échappé à une tentative d’assassinat en Afrique du Sud où il est réfugié depuis février 2010. Ces récents assassinats et tentative d’assassinat sont le reflet d’une dégradation générale de la situation des droits de l’Homme au Rwanda, caractérisée par une répression accrue à l’encontre de toutes les voix contestataires.
L’État du Rwanda, dont le rapport périodique a été examiné en mai 2010 par la Commission africaine des droits de l’Homme et des peuples (CADHP), avait été interpellé par les nombreuses ONG présentes, dont la FIDH, mais également par certains Commissaires, sur la nécessité de garantir les libertés individuelles d’expression, d’opinion et de réunion, de même que la sécurité de tous les citoyens en amont, pendant et après l’élection présidentielle. Aujourd’hui, la FIDH réitère cette interpellation.
«Le Rwanda se félicite souvent des progrès qu’il a réalisés en matière de démocratie et de bonne gouvernance. L’escalade de la violence et de la répression que connaît le pays à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle démontre au contraire qu’il y a encore très peu de place pour le respect des libertés individuelles des citoyens rwandais » a déclaré Souhayr Belhassen, Présidente de la FIDH.
La FIDH appelle les autorités rwandaises à:
• Faire toute la lumière, par le biais d’une enquête indépendante et impartiale, sur les circonstances des assassinats de André Kagwa Rwise-Reka et Jean-Léonard Rugambage ; à poursuivre et punir les auteurs de ces crimes ;
• Prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires, dans le respect des normes régionales et internationales de protection des droits de l’Homme, pour mettre un terme aux actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre des opposants politiques, des journalistes et des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme;
• Se conformer aux dispositions de la Résolution adoptée en mai 2010 par la CADHP sur les élections en Afrique, en particulier celles appelant les États parties à « veiller à ce que toutes les parties concernées, en particulier les partis d’opposition, puissent mener leur campagne librement, sans violence, ni intimidation », et à « veiller à protéger, avant, pendant et après les élections, les journalistes, les défenseurs des droits de l’Homme, les observateurs et superviseurs électoraux des intimidations et autres abus des droits humains».
• Ratifier la Charte africaine de la démocratie, des élections et de la gouvernance et à en respecter l’ensemble des dispositions.
La FIDH appelle en outre les Chefs d’État et de Gouvernement de l’Union africaine, réunis à Kampala, Ouganda, du 19 au 27 juillet 2010, à l’occasion de leur 15ème Sommet, à condamner publiquement et avec la plus grande fermeté les assassinats de André Kagwa Rwise-Reka et de Jean-Léonard Rugambage et à appeler les autorités rwandaises à prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour mettre un terme immédiat aux actes de harcèlement et d’intimidation à l’encontre des opposants politiques, des journalistes et des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme et pour garantir l’intégrité physique de l’ensemble des citoyens lors du prochain scrutin.
ICTR Defense Lawyers Condemn Murder of ICTR Lawyer Mwaikusa and Continuing Threats from Rwandan Government
ADAD
NEWS ADVISORY:
Contact: ICTR-ADAD Bureau, Arusha, TZ
Pres: Prof. Peter Erlinder (peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu) E
Beth Lyons (bethlyons@aol.com) Fr/E
John Philpot (jphilpot@videotron.ca) Fr/E
July 16 --ARUSHA, TZ -- The Bureau of the ICTR Association des Avocats
de la Defense (ADAD), notes with sadness and alarm the murder of our
ICTR colleague University of Dar es Salaam Law Professor Jwani
Mwaikusa, who was shot to death at his home on July 14. Professor
Mwaikusa had recently prevented the transfer of ICTR defendants to
Rwanda on "lack of fair" trial grounds, and recently annnounced the
appeal of his client's July 3 conviction.
Our colleague's murder is not an isolated incident. Within the
past month, a prominent Rwandan opposition journalist was also shot to
death in front of his home; a former Rwandan general survived an
apparent assassination attempt in South Africa, where he is seeking
asylum; the de-capitated body of the Rwandan Green Party Vice-
president was found near his car two days ago, and, the Green Party's
President has been publicly threatened with assassination.
Hundreds of potential opposition candidates and supporters have
been arrested or disappeared. Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire
was arrested on "genocide denial" charges for suggesting that both
Tutsi and Hutu were victims during the 1990-94 civil war and genocide,
as were her Dutch, U.S. and Rwandan lawyers.
The murder Dr. Mwaikusa also follows the illegal arrest of other
lawyers representing alleged opponents of the Rwandan government. U.S.
Law Professor Peter Erlinder on "genocide-denial" criminal charges,
arising from his work in the ICTR Military 1 Trial, which acquitted
four senior military officers on "genocide conspiracy" charges in
February 2009, and his representation of Madame Ingabire. After
Erlinder's arrest, ICTR defense lawyers refusing to participate in
proceedings and he was released in June after an international
campaign.
But, the Rwandan government continues to refuse to recognize UN-
granted immunity for Erlinder or other ICTR defense counsel. ICTR
defense lawyer Peter Robinson (a former Assistant U.S. Attorney) has
notified the court that meaningful defense of ICTR clients is not
possible and he has asked to withdraw. Other ICTR defense attorneys
are considering similar measures.
Rwandan government threats to ICTR defense counsel are also not
isolated incidents. In 2006, ICTR defense lawyer Me. Gakwaya was
arrested on a Rwandan "genocide" warrant when he arrived at the ICTR
and he was forced to end his ICTR work. Many other defense team
members have also been forced to give up the ICTR work, because of
threats or arrest by the Rwanda government. The charges against
Erlinder, the Mwaikusa murder and continuing threats against ICTR
defense teams make in clear that ICTR defense team members cannot take
their safety for granted anywhere in Africa.
In addition, during the past-2 months credible media reports have
documented the systematic withholding of evidence helpful to the
defense by the ICTR Prosecutor, which further deepens our concern
because only the losing side in the Rwanda civil war has been
prosecuted at the ICTR. The ADAD Bureau is deeply concerned that the
impossibility of meaningful defense at the ICTR has now made the
legitimacy of the ICTR, itself, an open question.
The ADAD Bureau calls on the UN Security Council to ensure the
safety of ICTR defense teams, to undertake an independent of the
Mwaikuza murder, and to re-establish the integrity of the Tribunal by
fully disclosing evidence of crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994 by
both the former and the current government of Rwanda.
NEWS ADVISORY:
Contact: ICTR-ADAD Bureau, Arusha, TZ
Pres: Prof. Peter Erlinder (peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu) E
Beth Lyons (bethlyons@aol.com) Fr/E
John Philpot (jphilpot@videotron.ca) Fr/E
July 16 --ARUSHA, TZ -- The Bureau of the ICTR Association des Avocats
de la Defense (ADAD), notes with sadness and alarm the murder of our
ICTR colleague University of Dar es Salaam Law Professor Jwani
Mwaikusa, who was shot to death at his home on July 14. Professor
Mwaikusa had recently prevented the transfer of ICTR defendants to
Rwanda on "lack of fair" trial grounds, and recently annnounced the
appeal of his client's July 3 conviction.
Our colleague's murder is not an isolated incident. Within the
past month, a prominent Rwandan opposition journalist was also shot to
death in front of his home; a former Rwandan general survived an
apparent assassination attempt in South Africa, where he is seeking
asylum; the de-capitated body of the Rwandan Green Party Vice-
president was found near his car two days ago, and, the Green Party's
President has been publicly threatened with assassination.
Hundreds of potential opposition candidates and supporters have
been arrested or disappeared. Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire
was arrested on "genocide denial" charges for suggesting that both
Tutsi and Hutu were victims during the 1990-94 civil war and genocide,
as were her Dutch, U.S. and Rwandan lawyers.
The murder Dr. Mwaikusa also follows the illegal arrest of other
lawyers representing alleged opponents of the Rwandan government. U.S.
Law Professor Peter Erlinder on "genocide-denial" criminal charges,
arising from his work in the ICTR Military 1 Trial, which acquitted
four senior military officers on "genocide conspiracy" charges in
February 2009, and his representation of Madame Ingabire. After
Erlinder's arrest, ICTR defense lawyers refusing to participate in
proceedings and he was released in June after an international
campaign.
But, the Rwandan government continues to refuse to recognize UN-
granted immunity for Erlinder or other ICTR defense counsel. ICTR
defense lawyer Peter Robinson (a former Assistant U.S. Attorney) has
notified the court that meaningful defense of ICTR clients is not
possible and he has asked to withdraw. Other ICTR defense attorneys
are considering similar measures.
Rwandan government threats to ICTR defense counsel are also not
isolated incidents. In 2006, ICTR defense lawyer Me. Gakwaya was
arrested on a Rwandan "genocide" warrant when he arrived at the ICTR
and he was forced to end his ICTR work. Many other defense team
members have also been forced to give up the ICTR work, because of
threats or arrest by the Rwanda government. The charges against
Erlinder, the Mwaikusa murder and continuing threats against ICTR
defense teams make in clear that ICTR defense team members cannot take
their safety for granted anywhere in Africa.
In addition, during the past-2 months credible media reports have
documented the systematic withholding of evidence helpful to the
defense by the ICTR Prosecutor, which further deepens our concern
because only the losing side in the Rwanda civil war has been
prosecuted at the ICTR. The ADAD Bureau is deeply concerned that the
impossibility of meaningful defense at the ICTR has now made the
legitimacy of the ICTR, itself, an open question.
The ADAD Bureau calls on the UN Security Council to ensure the
safety of ICTR defense teams, to undertake an independent of the
Mwaikuza murder, and to re-establish the integrity of the Tribunal by
fully disclosing evidence of crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994 by
both the former and the current government of Rwanda.
Uganda/Rwanda Must Halt Forced Returns of Refugees Immediately.
Human Rights Watch
16 July 2010
Uganda should immediately halt the forced repatriation of Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers from two camps on its southwestern border with Rwanda, Human Rights Watch said today.
"Mass forcible return of refugees and asylum seekers fundamentally violates Uganda's international obligations," said Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's Refugee Program. "The Ugandan government is supposed to protect people seeking asylum in Uganda, not endanger them."
The operation took place in the context of increasing pressure by Rwanda on neighboring countries to return refugees to Rwanda. Such pressure has steadily increased in recent months, leading to fears of further forced repatriations.
On July 14 and 15, 2010, Ugandan police rounded up more than 1,700 Rwandans, including recognized refugees, in the Nakivale and Kyaka camps and forcibly sent them back to Rwanda. There were reports that Rwandan police were present during the operation.
Ugandan officials reportedly deceived the Rwandans into gathering around trucks by announcing a food distribution, as well as information on the outcome of asylum appeals. Police and camp commanders then forced the Rwandans onto the trucks at gunpoint. In the ensuing panic, during which shots were fired, at least 25 people were injured.
Two persons died, reportedly after jumping off trucks in an attempt to escape the forced removal. A number of children were separated from their parents.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Rwandan and Ugandan governments jointly organized the forced repatriation and bypassed the UN agency. UNHCR also reported that its staff were told to leave the camps when officials began rounding up the Rwandans.
On July 15, UNHCR received a letter from the Rwandan minister for disaster preparedness and refugee affairs, informing the agency that the Rwandan government intended to take over a transit center previously used by UNHCR so that the government could receive the returnees. The Rukomo transit center in Byumba, northern Rwanda, has the capacity for only a few hundred people and lacks the facilities to provide for the basic needs of a larger number.
Tarsis Kabwegyere, the Ugandan minister in charge of disaster preparedness and refugees, has been quoted in the media as claiming that only rejected asylum seekers were sent back. However, witnesses to the operation said that no effort was made to distinguish among those forced onto the trucks, and that those sent back included individuals who had gained refugee status. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued a statement confirming that "recognized refugees were among those returned."
Human Rights Watch urged the Ugandan government to ensure that all Rwandan asylum seekers remaining in Uganda have access to a fair individual procedure that determines their refugee status and respects their rights.
Uganda is home to more than 15,000 Rwandan refugees, according to the UN refugee agency. Some fled Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide; others arrived more recently, including in 2009 and 2010. Most live in Nakivale and Kyaka, in difficult conditions. In recent months, they have been denied access to land to cultivate crops, as part of a series of measures to persuade them to return to Rwanda.
Uganda has rejected 98 percent of asylum applications from Rwandans this year, according to UNHCR. However, many Rwandan asylum seekers contend that it is not safe for them to go home, citing fears about the justice system (particularly community-based gacaca courts responsible for trying genocide cases), land disputes, and political repression.
The Rwandan government has long sought the return of Rwandan refugees from neighboring countries and has exerted pressure on governments in the region to cooperate in repatriations. In addition to Uganda, both Burundi and Tanzania have forcibly returned refugees to Rwanda without considering their individual cases on several occasions over the last few years.
Human Rights Watch has documented patterns of serious human rights violations in Rwanda, including increased insecurity and political repression in the period leading up to presidential elections on August 9 and concerns about the justice system.
"This operation by the Rwandan and Ugandan governments completely disregards the rights of refugees who have well-founded fears of returning to Rwanda," Frelick said. "These events are going to cause panic among Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers remaining in Uganda and in other neighboring countries that they too may be forced back against their will."
16 July 2010
Uganda should immediately halt the forced repatriation of Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers from two camps on its southwestern border with Rwanda, Human Rights Watch said today.
"Mass forcible return of refugees and asylum seekers fundamentally violates Uganda's international obligations," said Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's Refugee Program. "The Ugandan government is supposed to protect people seeking asylum in Uganda, not endanger them."
The operation took place in the context of increasing pressure by Rwanda on neighboring countries to return refugees to Rwanda. Such pressure has steadily increased in recent months, leading to fears of further forced repatriations.
On July 14 and 15, 2010, Ugandan police rounded up more than 1,700 Rwandans, including recognized refugees, in the Nakivale and Kyaka camps and forcibly sent them back to Rwanda. There were reports that Rwandan police were present during the operation.
Ugandan officials reportedly deceived the Rwandans into gathering around trucks by announcing a food distribution, as well as information on the outcome of asylum appeals. Police and camp commanders then forced the Rwandans onto the trucks at gunpoint. In the ensuing panic, during which shots were fired, at least 25 people were injured.
Two persons died, reportedly after jumping off trucks in an attempt to escape the forced removal. A number of children were separated from their parents.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Rwandan and Ugandan governments jointly organized the forced repatriation and bypassed the UN agency. UNHCR also reported that its staff were told to leave the camps when officials began rounding up the Rwandans.
On July 15, UNHCR received a letter from the Rwandan minister for disaster preparedness and refugee affairs, informing the agency that the Rwandan government intended to take over a transit center previously used by UNHCR so that the government could receive the returnees. The Rukomo transit center in Byumba, northern Rwanda, has the capacity for only a few hundred people and lacks the facilities to provide for the basic needs of a larger number.
Tarsis Kabwegyere, the Ugandan minister in charge of disaster preparedness and refugees, has been quoted in the media as claiming that only rejected asylum seekers were sent back. However, witnesses to the operation said that no effort was made to distinguish among those forced onto the trucks, and that those sent back included individuals who had gained refugee status. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued a statement confirming that "recognized refugees were among those returned."
Human Rights Watch urged the Ugandan government to ensure that all Rwandan asylum seekers remaining in Uganda have access to a fair individual procedure that determines their refugee status and respects their rights.
Uganda is home to more than 15,000 Rwandan refugees, according to the UN refugee agency. Some fled Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide; others arrived more recently, including in 2009 and 2010. Most live in Nakivale and Kyaka, in difficult conditions. In recent months, they have been denied access to land to cultivate crops, as part of a series of measures to persuade them to return to Rwanda.
Uganda has rejected 98 percent of asylum applications from Rwandans this year, according to UNHCR. However, many Rwandan asylum seekers contend that it is not safe for them to go home, citing fears about the justice system (particularly community-based gacaca courts responsible for trying genocide cases), land disputes, and political repression.
The Rwandan government has long sought the return of Rwandan refugees from neighboring countries and has exerted pressure on governments in the region to cooperate in repatriations. In addition to Uganda, both Burundi and Tanzania have forcibly returned refugees to Rwanda without considering their individual cases on several occasions over the last few years.
Human Rights Watch has documented patterns of serious human rights violations in Rwanda, including increased insecurity and political repression in the period leading up to presidential elections on August 9 and concerns about the justice system.
"This operation by the Rwandan and Ugandan governments completely disregards the rights of refugees who have well-founded fears of returning to Rwanda," Frelick said. "These events are going to cause panic among Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers remaining in Uganda and in other neighboring countries that they too may be forced back against their will."
UN Deplores Forced Returns Of Rwandan Refugees.
Saturday, 17 July 2010, 11:01 am
Press Release: United Nations
UN Agency Deplores Forced Returns Of Rwandan Refugees From Uganda
New York, Jul 16 2010 10:10AM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today deplored the forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda, with reports of police brutality being used to deport the asylum-seekers.
On Wednesday, Ugandan police carried out an operation to round up and force out some 1,700 Rwandan refugees from the Nakivale and Kyaka camps in southwestern Ugandan.
In the Nakivale settlement, Rwandan asylum-seekers were assembled under the pretext that they would be told of the results of their asylum claims, with panic breaking out among the group when police fired shots.
“Force was used to push people onto trucks,” with the refugees then being driven across the border to Rwanda, UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told reporters in Geneva today.
Meanwhile in the Kyaka camp, police and armed men surrounded a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse filled with refugees who believed they would receive food supplies.
“Those who did not manage to escape were forced onto waiting trucks,” Ms. Fleming said, adding that many were not allowed to take their personal belongings with them.
Two men who jumped out of trucks en route back to Rwanda died, and some children were separated from their parents.
More than two dozen people who were not deported sustained injuries, some from police beatings. Among the injured were 6 pregnant women who were treated at a local hospital and then released.
UNHCR is interviewing those injured in the round-ups and tracing those separated from their families in the deportation.
“Although UNHCR was broadly aware of an agreement between the two countries to return failed asylum-seekers, we were not informed of the timing and the nature of this operation,” Ms. Fleming said.
She added that the agency staff at the settlements at the time of the incidents were asked to leave the scene.
The operations were targeted at failed asylum-seekers, but UNHCR has received confirmation that recognized refugees were among those returned to Rwanda.
In Kyaka, a woman told the agency that her two children were among the group sent back despite the fact that she and her family were recognized as refugees.
Press Release: United Nations
UN Agency Deplores Forced Returns Of Rwandan Refugees From Uganda
New York, Jul 16 2010 10:10AM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today deplored the forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda, with reports of police brutality being used to deport the asylum-seekers.
On Wednesday, Ugandan police carried out an operation to round up and force out some 1,700 Rwandan refugees from the Nakivale and Kyaka camps in southwestern Ugandan.
In the Nakivale settlement, Rwandan asylum-seekers were assembled under the pretext that they would be told of the results of their asylum claims, with panic breaking out among the group when police fired shots.
“Force was used to push people onto trucks,” with the refugees then being driven across the border to Rwanda, UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told reporters in Geneva today.
Meanwhile in the Kyaka camp, police and armed men surrounded a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse filled with refugees who believed they would receive food supplies.
“Those who did not manage to escape were forced onto waiting trucks,” Ms. Fleming said, adding that many were not allowed to take their personal belongings with them.
Two men who jumped out of trucks en route back to Rwanda died, and some children were separated from their parents.
More than two dozen people who were not deported sustained injuries, some from police beatings. Among the injured were 6 pregnant women who were treated at a local hospital and then released.
UNHCR is interviewing those injured in the round-ups and tracing those separated from their families in the deportation.
“Although UNHCR was broadly aware of an agreement between the two countries to return failed asylum-seekers, we were not informed of the timing and the nature of this operation,” Ms. Fleming said.
She added that the agency staff at the settlements at the time of the incidents were asked to leave the scene.
The operations were targeted at failed asylum-seekers, but UNHCR has received confirmation that recognized refugees were among those returned to Rwanda.
In Kyaka, a woman told the agency that her two children were among the group sent back despite the fact that she and her family were recognized as refugees.
16 July, 2010
US accused of funding Kenyan vote.
SAPA
16 July 2010
By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO
Three Republican members of the US Congress are accusing the Obama administration of using money meant for civic education in Kenya to back a draft constitution that they fear would increase access to abortion in the African country.
The US Embassy on Friday said it has provided about $11-million in support of constitutional reform in Kenya, but that an investigation into the funds found that nine of more than 200 sub-grantees supported the "yes" campaign.
A spokeswoman said the embassy has since suspended or concluded those nine grants.
Kenyans will vote on the draft constitution on August 4, a vote that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1000 people killed after the country's December 2007 presidential elections.
The fight over the US funding centres around one of the draft constitution's most contentious clauses - language that says abortion will not be permitted unless the life or health of the mother is in danger according to the opinion of a trained health professional.
Abortions are illegal in Kenya under current law, but hundreds of thousands of women still seek them each year. The existing law, however, also allows a doctor to perform an abortion if a woman's life is in danger.
Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, argues that the "trained health professional" clause reduces the qualifications needed of the abortion provider from current Kenyan law.
"The draft constitution, with its controversial provisions expanding access to abortion, is a matter for the Kenyan people to consider and decide," said Smith. "The Obama administration should immediately withdraw all US taxpayer funding used to buy votes and influence the outcome on the referendum."
A part of US law known as the Siljander Amendment makes it illegal for foreign assistance funds to be used to lobby for or against abortion.
Katya Thomas, a US Embassy spokeswoman in Nairobi, said that the nine suspended grants originally had been given to support civic education, and constitutional and democratic reforms.
But the primary contractor gave sub-grants to other groups using language that had not been approved by the Embassy, she said.
"We don't fund the 'yes' campaign, but around the region, not just in Kenya, through USAID, we support constitutional democratic reforms," she said, referring to the US government's aid arm, USAID. She said she does not know when those nine sub-grants were cut off.
Smith, in a statement, detailed 10 Kenyan organisations he said the US Inspector General had found used funds to promote "yes" votes on the constitution.
Top US officials have done little to hide their support of Kenya's proposed constitution. President Obama has said the constitution is a "singular opportunity to put Kenyan governance on a more solid footing that can move beyond ethnic violence, can move beyond corruption."
Last month during a visit here, Vice President Joe Biden said the new constitution would "deepen the roots of your democracy and ultimately guarantee your security".
Rewriting Kenya's constitution was part of the peace deal signed in February 2008 after the post-election violence. The draft constitution cuts down the Kenyan president's current enormous powers by setting up an American-style presidential system of checks and balances.
The US Embassy in Nairobi this week released a statement saying that unnamed Kenyan leaders have alleged that US Ambassador Michael E Ranneberger and the embassy are providing funding to members of parliament to support the yes campaign or are intimidating opponents of the constitution.
"These claims are categorically false, and those making such allegations are lying," the embassy statement said.
Kenyan Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo denied to AP that the US was illicitly giving funds to those supporting the constitution.
Mutula said that the US has historically given Kenya funds to support voter education directly and through contributions to the United Nations Development Program, and that current funding is for a similar process.
16 July 2010
By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO
Three Republican members of the US Congress are accusing the Obama administration of using money meant for civic education in Kenya to back a draft constitution that they fear would increase access to abortion in the African country.
The US Embassy on Friday said it has provided about $11-million in support of constitutional reform in Kenya, but that an investigation into the funds found that nine of more than 200 sub-grantees supported the "yes" campaign.
A spokeswoman said the embassy has since suspended or concluded those nine grants.
Kenyans will vote on the draft constitution on August 4, a vote that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1000 people killed after the country's December 2007 presidential elections.
The fight over the US funding centres around one of the draft constitution's most contentious clauses - language that says abortion will not be permitted unless the life or health of the mother is in danger according to the opinion of a trained health professional.
Abortions are illegal in Kenya under current law, but hundreds of thousands of women still seek them each year. The existing law, however, also allows a doctor to perform an abortion if a woman's life is in danger.
Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, argues that the "trained health professional" clause reduces the qualifications needed of the abortion provider from current Kenyan law.
"The draft constitution, with its controversial provisions expanding access to abortion, is a matter for the Kenyan people to consider and decide," said Smith. "The Obama administration should immediately withdraw all US taxpayer funding used to buy votes and influence the outcome on the referendum."
A part of US law known as the Siljander Amendment makes it illegal for foreign assistance funds to be used to lobby for or against abortion.
Katya Thomas, a US Embassy spokeswoman in Nairobi, said that the nine suspended grants originally had been given to support civic education, and constitutional and democratic reforms.
But the primary contractor gave sub-grants to other groups using language that had not been approved by the Embassy, she said.
"We don't fund the 'yes' campaign, but around the region, not just in Kenya, through USAID, we support constitutional democratic reforms," she said, referring to the US government's aid arm, USAID. She said she does not know when those nine sub-grants were cut off.
Smith, in a statement, detailed 10 Kenyan organisations he said the US Inspector General had found used funds to promote "yes" votes on the constitution.
Top US officials have done little to hide their support of Kenya's proposed constitution. President Obama has said the constitution is a "singular opportunity to put Kenyan governance on a more solid footing that can move beyond ethnic violence, can move beyond corruption."
Last month during a visit here, Vice President Joe Biden said the new constitution would "deepen the roots of your democracy and ultimately guarantee your security".
Rewriting Kenya's constitution was part of the peace deal signed in February 2008 after the post-election violence. The draft constitution cuts down the Kenyan president's current enormous powers by setting up an American-style presidential system of checks and balances.
The US Embassy in Nairobi this week released a statement saying that unnamed Kenyan leaders have alleged that US Ambassador Michael E Ranneberger and the embassy are providing funding to members of parliament to support the yes campaign or are intimidating opponents of the constitution.
"These claims are categorically false, and those making such allegations are lying," the embassy statement said.
Kenyan Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo denied to AP that the US was illicitly giving funds to those supporting the constitution.
Mutula said that the US has historically given Kenya funds to support voter education directly and through contributions to the United Nations Development Program, and that current funding is for a similar process.
Green Parties in the Commonwealth Countries Demand Commonwealth Take Action Against Rwanda.
Green Parties of the Commonwealth
Press Release
16 July 2010
Caroline Lucas, with other Green Party leaders in the Commonwealth, is urging action after the killing of the deputy leader of the Rwandan Green Party, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka.
In the lead-up to Rwanda's presidential vote on the 9th August, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has been subject to harassment, intimidation, and death threats. Police have broken up party meetings, and the party has been barred from registering or putting up candidates for the election. (1)
A letter was sent yesterday to the Commonwealth's Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, co-signed by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, Sen. Bob Brown (leader of the Australian Greens) and Russel Norman (leader, New Zealand Greens).
It calls on Sharma to take urgent steps to enforce the Commonwealth's standards of human rights and democracy in Rwanda. (2)
In part, the joint-letter from Lucas, Brown and Norman reads:
"The death of Green Party Vice President, Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who was found dead on 14th July 2010, is a tragic event and we are extremely concerned for the other members of the Rwandan Green Party.
"Mr. Rwisereka's death follows on from a series of events in the last few months that suggest that the Rwandan government is creating or allowing an extremely hostile environment for opposition political parties in the run up to Presidential elections on 9 August.
"Rwanda's membership of the Commonwealth requires that it honors and complies with the Commonwealth's fundamental political principles which include respect for civil society and human rights.
"We urge you to immediately send a team of Commonwealth representatives to Rwanda to ensure the Government is taking all steps possible to ensure respect for rights to freedom of expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly of opposition parties."
Notes
1) 15th July 2010, The Independent
2) This week, Reporters Without Borders also called on the European Union and other donors to suspend financial support for the election because of "a series of grave press freedom violations."
Press Release
16 July 2010
Caroline Lucas, with other Green Party leaders in the Commonwealth, is urging action after the killing of the deputy leader of the Rwandan Green Party, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka.
In the lead-up to Rwanda's presidential vote on the 9th August, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has been subject to harassment, intimidation, and death threats. Police have broken up party meetings, and the party has been barred from registering or putting up candidates for the election. (1)
A letter was sent yesterday to the Commonwealth's Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, co-signed by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, Sen. Bob Brown (leader of the Australian Greens) and Russel Norman (leader, New Zealand Greens).
It calls on Sharma to take urgent steps to enforce the Commonwealth's standards of human rights and democracy in Rwanda. (2)
In part, the joint-letter from Lucas, Brown and Norman reads:
"The death of Green Party Vice President, Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who was found dead on 14th July 2010, is a tragic event and we are extremely concerned for the other members of the Rwandan Green Party.
"Mr. Rwisereka's death follows on from a series of events in the last few months that suggest that the Rwandan government is creating or allowing an extremely hostile environment for opposition political parties in the run up to Presidential elections on 9 August.
"Rwanda's membership of the Commonwealth requires that it honors and complies with the Commonwealth's fundamental political principles which include respect for civil society and human rights.
"We urge you to immediately send a team of Commonwealth representatives to Rwanda to ensure the Government is taking all steps possible to ensure respect for rights to freedom of expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly of opposition parties."
Notes
1) 15th July 2010, The Independent
2) This week, Reporters Without Borders also called on the European Union and other donors to suspend financial support for the election because of "a series of grave press freedom violations."
Spanish PM calls off meeting with Rwandan president over human rights violations.
Reuters/WNJ
16 July 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of a meeting with President Paul Kagame on Friday after receiving a petition stating the Rwandan leader has continually violated human rights, an ally of Zapatero said.
The two leaders were scheduled as drivers of the Millennium Development Goals -- a United Nations initiative to erradicate extreme poverty and reduce infant mortality along with other goals by 2015.
"The prime minister yesterday received a petition from various political groups saying that they didn't think it was appropriate for the meeting to take place", Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said on Spanish television.
She said Zapatero had been "sensitive" to the petition and would meet other political parties to explain why he had decided not see President Kagame.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos took Zapatero's place at the meeting, which was also attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
In 2008, a Spanish judge issued indictments for 40 current and former members of President Kagame's army. The indictments also accused President Kagame of committing crimes against humanity, genocide and terrorism. The court did not issue an indictment for him, however, since President Kagame has immunity as a sitting head of state.
Two years earlier, a French judge accused President Kagame and nine of his military aides of shooting down former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane in April 1994, which was the catalyst for the genocide.
16 July 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of a meeting with President Paul Kagame on Friday after receiving a petition stating the Rwandan leader has continually violated human rights, an ally of Zapatero said.
The two leaders were scheduled as drivers of the Millennium Development Goals -- a United Nations initiative to erradicate extreme poverty and reduce infant mortality along with other goals by 2015.
"The prime minister yesterday received a petition from various political groups saying that they didn't think it was appropriate for the meeting to take place", Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said on Spanish television.
She said Zapatero had been "sensitive" to the petition and would meet other political parties to explain why he had decided not see President Kagame.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos took Zapatero's place at the meeting, which was also attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
In 2008, a Spanish judge issued indictments for 40 current and former members of President Kagame's army. The indictments also accused President Kagame of committing crimes against humanity, genocide and terrorism. The court did not issue an indictment for him, however, since President Kagame has immunity as a sitting head of state.
Two years earlier, a French judge accused President Kagame and nine of his military aides of shooting down former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane in April 1994, which was the catalyst for the genocide.
UN Demands Probe into Rwandan Opposition Politician's Murder.
AFP
16 July 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a full probe into the deaths of a senior opposition party member and a journalist in Rwanda during talks in Madrid with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, his spokeswoman said.
"He expressed his concerns regarding the recent incidents which have caused political tensions" in Rwanda ahead of August 9 presidential elections in the African country, his spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci told AFP.
The UN chief also stressed "the need to respect human rights" and "he encouraged the Rwandan authorities to carry out a full investigation into these incidents", she added.
Three Rwandan opposition parties on Thursday called for an independent international investigation into the murder of opposition official Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and independent journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage.
Mr. Rwisereka was the deputy president of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party, which along with the Unified Democratic Forces (FDU) and the Socialist Party (PS), called for the investigations.
His nearly decapitated body was found dumped by a river on Wednesday. Rugambage, who was critical of Kagame's government, was shot dead near his home on June 24.
The Rwandan Democratic Green Party is unregistered and has no candidate for next month's presidential elections. It has accused President Paul Kagame of blocking it from taking part in the polls.
Secretary-General Ki-Moon and President Kagame were in Madrid for the first meeting of the MDG Advocacy Group set up last month by the United Nations to advance the Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme poverty by 2015.
President Kagame and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero are the co-chairs of the group.
Zapatero opted out of Friday's meeting following large protests that President Kagame's regime was directly linked to Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Spain was instead represented at the meeting by Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and Zapatero met with the UN chief separately.
16 July 2010
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called for a full probe into the deaths of a senior opposition party member and a journalist in Rwanda during talks in Madrid with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, his spokeswoman said.
"He expressed his concerns regarding the recent incidents which have caused political tensions" in Rwanda ahead of August 9 presidential elections in the African country, his spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci told AFP.
The UN chief also stressed "the need to respect human rights" and "he encouraged the Rwandan authorities to carry out a full investigation into these incidents", she added.
Three Rwandan opposition parties on Thursday called for an independent international investigation into the murder of opposition official Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and independent journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage.
Mr. Rwisereka was the deputy president of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party, which along with the Unified Democratic Forces (FDU) and the Socialist Party (PS), called for the investigations.
His nearly decapitated body was found dumped by a river on Wednesday. Rugambage, who was critical of Kagame's government, was shot dead near his home on June 24.
The Rwandan Democratic Green Party is unregistered and has no candidate for next month's presidential elections. It has accused President Paul Kagame of blocking it from taking part in the polls.
Secretary-General Ki-Moon and President Kagame were in Madrid for the first meeting of the MDG Advocacy Group set up last month by the United Nations to advance the Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme poverty by 2015.
President Kagame and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero are the co-chairs of the group.
Zapatero opted out of Friday's meeting following large protests that President Kagame's regime was directly linked to Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Spain was instead represented at the meeting by Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and Zapatero met with the UN chief separately.
Ex-president's son Ousmane Conte freed on bail.
BBC News
16 July 2010
The eldest son of Guinea's late leader has been freed after spending 16 months in jail for alleged drug trafficking.
His lawyer told the BBC that Ousmane Conte was released on bail pending further legal action.
He was arrested two months after the military seized power on his father's death.
Last month he was named by the US as a "drugs kingpin" and admitted on live television his trafficking involvement but said he was not a "ringleader".
Under the Unites States' Drug Kingpin Act, financial sanctions are imposed on suspected drug traffickers and US citizens are barred from doing business with them.
His lawyer denied Mr Conte owned property in the US.
"The Conte son is certainly being prosecuted for the alleged smuggling of drugs but I say loudly and clearly that he is not known for international drug or cocaine trafficking," Barry Tafsir is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
Mamady Kaba, head of Guinea's Encounter for Human Rights, said he was worried about the latest development.
"We don't know what motivated the release at this time," he told the BBC's French Service.
Mr Kaba said Guinea's justice system needed to be tough in its approach to drug trafficking and he hoped the case would not be dropped.
US President Barack Obama in June named Conte as one of five individuals suitable for sanctions such as asset freezes under the US Kingpin Act targeting foreign drug traffickers.
It was not immediately clear whether Conte's release was provisional or definitive.
Guinea is currently between rounds of a presidential election intended to hand the West African state back to civilian rule.
Anti-narcotics officials say West Africa with its weak crime-fighting and other institutional structures is being used increasingly by traffickers as a hub for bringing illegal drugs into Europe.
The West African nation is currently between rounds of a presidential election intended to hand power back to civilian rule.
President Lansana Conte died in December 2008 after ruling the mineral-rich country for 24 years.
16 July 2010
The eldest son of Guinea's late leader has been freed after spending 16 months in jail for alleged drug trafficking.
His lawyer told the BBC that Ousmane Conte was released on bail pending further legal action.
He was arrested two months after the military seized power on his father's death.
Last month he was named by the US as a "drugs kingpin" and admitted on live television his trafficking involvement but said he was not a "ringleader".
Under the Unites States' Drug Kingpin Act, financial sanctions are imposed on suspected drug traffickers and US citizens are barred from doing business with them.
His lawyer denied Mr Conte owned property in the US.
"The Conte son is certainly being prosecuted for the alleged smuggling of drugs but I say loudly and clearly that he is not known for international drug or cocaine trafficking," Barry Tafsir is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
Mamady Kaba, head of Guinea's Encounter for Human Rights, said he was worried about the latest development.
"We don't know what motivated the release at this time," he told the BBC's French Service.
Mr Kaba said Guinea's justice system needed to be tough in its approach to drug trafficking and he hoped the case would not be dropped.
US President Barack Obama in June named Conte as one of five individuals suitable for sanctions such as asset freezes under the US Kingpin Act targeting foreign drug traffickers.
It was not immediately clear whether Conte's release was provisional or definitive.
Guinea is currently between rounds of a presidential election intended to hand the West African state back to civilian rule.
Anti-narcotics officials say West Africa with its weak crime-fighting and other institutional structures is being used increasingly by traffickers as a hub for bringing illegal drugs into Europe.
The West African nation is currently between rounds of a presidential election intended to hand power back to civilian rule.
President Lansana Conte died in December 2008 after ruling the mineral-rich country for 24 years.
Democratic Green Party Welcomes Police Arrest in the Case of the Murder of the Party's Vice-President.
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
16 July 2010
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda welcomes the National Police’s efforts which led to the arrest of the man they suspect as the murderer of our First Vice-President, the late Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, found dead on 14th July 2010.
The National Police Spokesperson, Sup. Eric KAYIRANGA, announced last night (15th July 2010) that they put in custody, Thomas NTIVUGURUZWA, the last person believed to have talked to our Vice-President before his murder.
This is a good step taken in these investigations; we shared some of these details with the National police and the Rwandan Army. We hope that this suspect will not divert police investigations but ultimately lead us to the killers of our Vice President and uncover their real motives.
Issued in Kigali
16th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA
Founding President
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
16 July 2010
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda welcomes the National Police’s efforts which led to the arrest of the man they suspect as the murderer of our First Vice-President, the late Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, found dead on 14th July 2010.
The National Police Spokesperson, Sup. Eric KAYIRANGA, announced last night (15th July 2010) that they put in custody, Thomas NTIVUGURUZWA, the last person believed to have talked to our Vice-President before his murder.
This is a good step taken in these investigations; we shared some of these details with the National police and the Rwandan Army. We hope that this suspect will not divert police investigations but ultimately lead us to the killers of our Vice President and uncover their real motives.
Issued in Kigali
16th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA
Founding President
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
UN deplores Uganda's forced deportation of Rwandans.
SAPA
16 July 2010
Uganda forcibly returned 1 700 Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees from two camps in the south-west of the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday, condemning the action that left two men dead.
"The UNHCR deplores this week's forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda," said Melissa Fleming, spokesperson at the office of the UNHCR.
"On Wednesday July 14, Ugandan police mounted an operation to round up and deport 1 700 people from the Nakivale and Kyaka refugee settlements in south-western Uganda," she said.
"We are very concerned about further deportations. There are reports from refugees that police have threatened to return to both of these settlements and to deport all those who managed to escape.
"So we are calling on the Ugandan government not to conduct any further operations," said the spokesperson.
Those in the Nakivale settlement were gathered on the pretext that they would learn about the results of their claims.
Instead, they were pushed on to trucks and taken across the border.
In Kyaka, the group was rounded up in a WFP warehouse with food distribution as the bait, but likewise, they were surrounded by armed men and police and told to get on the trucks.
Once in Rwanda, the deportees were taken to a transit centre with a maximum capacity of 500 people and which lacks water.
"As a result, the deportees reportedly slept out in the open without food or clean water. UNHCR is seeking access," said Fleming.
Deaths and injuries
The spokesperson noted that the "operations resulted in the deaths of two men who jumped off trucks en route to Rwanda".
"Children were separated from their parents," she added.
About 25 people who did not count among the deportees were also injured, including six pregnant women.
Most of the deported were failed asylum-seekers, but the agency has found evidence that recognised refugees had also been returned.
"We are also trying to establish if refugees of other nationalities might have also been deported in the confusion," she said, reiterating that any returns must be undertaken in a voluntary manner.
As many as 3 320 Rwandans have sought asylum in Uganda this year. A massive 98% of the claims have been rejected, said the UNHCR.
"UNHCR is concerned that asylum applications are not being determined properly and fairly. We have been, and will continue to address this issue with the Ugandan authorities," said Fleming.
16 July 2010
Uganda forcibly returned 1 700 Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees from two camps in the south-west of the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday, condemning the action that left two men dead.
"The UNHCR deplores this week's forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda," said Melissa Fleming, spokesperson at the office of the UNHCR.
"On Wednesday July 14, Ugandan police mounted an operation to round up and deport 1 700 people from the Nakivale and Kyaka refugee settlements in south-western Uganda," she said.
"We are very concerned about further deportations. There are reports from refugees that police have threatened to return to both of these settlements and to deport all those who managed to escape.
"So we are calling on the Ugandan government not to conduct any further operations," said the spokesperson.
Those in the Nakivale settlement were gathered on the pretext that they would learn about the results of their claims.
Instead, they were pushed on to trucks and taken across the border.
In Kyaka, the group was rounded up in a WFP warehouse with food distribution as the bait, but likewise, they were surrounded by armed men and police and told to get on the trucks.
Once in Rwanda, the deportees were taken to a transit centre with a maximum capacity of 500 people and which lacks water.
"As a result, the deportees reportedly slept out in the open without food or clean water. UNHCR is seeking access," said Fleming.
Deaths and injuries
The spokesperson noted that the "operations resulted in the deaths of two men who jumped off trucks en route to Rwanda".
"Children were separated from their parents," she added.
About 25 people who did not count among the deportees were also injured, including six pregnant women.
Most of the deported were failed asylum-seekers, but the agency has found evidence that recognised refugees had also been returned.
"We are also trying to establish if refugees of other nationalities might have also been deported in the confusion," she said, reiterating that any returns must be undertaken in a voluntary manner.
As many as 3 320 Rwandans have sought asylum in Uganda this year. A massive 98% of the claims have been rejected, said the UNHCR.
"UNHCR is concerned that asylum applications are not being determined properly and fairly. We have been, and will continue to address this issue with the Ugandan authorities," said Fleming.
United States Green Party Condemns Murder of Rwandan Green Party Member, Demand Investigation.
Green Party of the United States
Press Release
15 July 2010
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States expressed shock and sadness over news of the barbaric killing of André Kagwa Rwisereka, Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (http://www.rwandagreendemocrats.org). Mr. Rwisereka's body, discovered July 14 after he was missing for several days, showed evidence of murder.
US Greens have joined Green Parties around the world in extending their sincere condolences to Mr. Rwisereka's family and community and the Rwandan Green Party.
Green Party leaders are calling on the Obama Administration to support a full investigation of this murder and the deeply disturbing allegations that André Kagwa Rwisereka's assassination was politically motivated, tied to the current political leadership of the Rwandan government of President Paul Kagame and his ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RFP), which has close ties to the US. The Kagame government has consistently prevented Greens and other opposition parties from freely registering as political parties.
"Rwanda is portrayed by the Obama Administration as an 'African success story,’" said Marian Douglas-Ungaro, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl), member of the Green Party Black Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php) and DC Statehood Green Party, and a veteran international elections monitor. Yet, this same government stands accused of human rights abuses including crimes against humanity and political repression. Five times it has prevented the Rwanda Democratic Green Party from convening, once violently, thereby bureaucratically blocking them from appearing on the ballot for the upcoming August presidential elections. How is this a beacon of democracy in Africa?
US Greens are preparing a letter to be sent to President Obama urging him to press for a full inquiry into the assassination and for prosecution and punishment of the assassins.
See also:
"Death Announcement: Rwandan Democratic Green Party Vice President Assassinated"
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda press release, July 14, 2010
http://rwandagreendemocrats.org/spip.php?article83
"Rwandan Opposition Leaders and members have been assaulted, arrested and hundreds are still missing"
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda press release, June 24, 2010
http://rwandagreendemocrats.org/spip.php?article79
Global Greens statement on the assassination of Rwandan Greens Vice-President Mr. André Kagwa Rwisereka
http://www.globalgreens.org/statements/kagwa_rwisereka_assassinated
"Greens in the US protest attempts by the government of Rwanda to suppress the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda"
Green Party of the United States press release, November 2, 2009
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=260
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
Press Release
15 July 2010
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States expressed shock and sadness over news of the barbaric killing of André Kagwa Rwisereka, Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (http://www.rwandagreendemocrats.org). Mr. Rwisereka's body, discovered July 14 after he was missing for several days, showed evidence of murder.
US Greens have joined Green Parties around the world in extending their sincere condolences to Mr. Rwisereka's family and community and the Rwandan Green Party.
Green Party leaders are calling on the Obama Administration to support a full investigation of this murder and the deeply disturbing allegations that André Kagwa Rwisereka's assassination was politically motivated, tied to the current political leadership of the Rwandan government of President Paul Kagame and his ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RFP), which has close ties to the US. The Kagame government has consistently prevented Greens and other opposition parties from freely registering as political parties.
"Rwanda is portrayed by the Obama Administration as an 'African success story,’" said Marian Douglas-Ungaro, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl), member of the Green Party Black Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php) and DC Statehood Green Party, and a veteran international elections monitor. Yet, this same government stands accused of human rights abuses including crimes against humanity and political repression. Five times it has prevented the Rwanda Democratic Green Party from convening, once violently, thereby bureaucratically blocking them from appearing on the ballot for the upcoming August presidential elections. How is this a beacon of democracy in Africa?
US Greens are preparing a letter to be sent to President Obama urging him to press for a full inquiry into the assassination and for prosecution and punishment of the assassins.
See also:
"Death Announcement: Rwandan Democratic Green Party Vice President Assassinated"
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda press release, July 14, 2010
http://rwandagreendemocrats.org/spip.php?article83
"Rwandan Opposition Leaders and members have been assaulted, arrested and hundreds are still missing"
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda press release, June 24, 2010
http://rwandagreendemocrats.org/spip.php?article79
Global Greens statement on the assassination of Rwandan Greens Vice-President Mr. André Kagwa Rwisereka
http://www.globalgreens.org/statements/kagwa_rwisereka_assassinated
"Greens in the US protest attempts by the government of Rwanda to suppress the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda"
Green Party of the United States press release, November 2, 2009
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=260
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
Spanish PM Refuses to Meet with President Kagame.
AFP/WNJ
15 July 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has decided not to go ahead with a meeting on Friday in Madrid with Rwandan President Paul Kagame which had been highly contested by humanitarian charities, a government spokesman said.
Zapatero and Kagame, who is named in a Spanish probe into the murder of several Spanish priests in Rwanda, had been scheduled to meet Friday during a the first meeting of a group set up last month by the United Nations to advance the fight against poverty.
The meeting, which was due to be held at Moncloa Palace, the seat of the Spanish government, will instead be held at a downtown Madrid hotel and Spain will be represented by Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the spokesman said.
Zapatero will meet with UN chief Ban Ki-moon separately, he added.
Last month the UN chief named Zapatero and Kagame as the co-chairs of the advocacy group pushing for progress on the Millennium Development Goals that set the aim of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
Earlier on Thursday the Coordinating Committee for Development NGOs in Spain (CONGDE) said in a statement that the UN's choice of Kagame for the post was "questionable."
It criticised "Zapatero's passivity for accepting without objection to work beside someone accused of genocide".
Asked about the statement, the government spokesman said only that the decision to move the meeting to a hotel was taken on Thursday and the the government felt that Moratinos' presence at the meeting was "sufficient".
In 2008 Spain's High Court announced its intention to prosecute 40 Rwandan army officers for genocide, crimes against humanity and terrorism related to events that took place between 1994 and 2000. Most of the this time period was under the rule of now President Kagame's party the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
The Spanish judiciary claims President Kagame foremented the ethnic clashes in a deliberate bid to seize power. The Rwandan officers are accused, among other things, of murdering Spanish missionaries and Spanish expatriates who were witnesses to Kagame's army's massacres of Hutu.
Under Spanish law, a court can prosecute human rights crimes against its nationals even if the alleged offences took place abroad.
But President Kagame is immune from prosecution because of his status as head of state. His government has formally rejected the judge's accusations.
Others in the so-called MDG Advocacy Group, named after the Millennium Development Goals, include Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, CNN founder Ted Turner and Jeffrey Sachs of The Earth Institute and Columbia University.
15 July 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has decided not to go ahead with a meeting on Friday in Madrid with Rwandan President Paul Kagame which had been highly contested by humanitarian charities, a government spokesman said.
Zapatero and Kagame, who is named in a Spanish probe into the murder of several Spanish priests in Rwanda, had been scheduled to meet Friday during a the first meeting of a group set up last month by the United Nations to advance the fight against poverty.
The meeting, which was due to be held at Moncloa Palace, the seat of the Spanish government, will instead be held at a downtown Madrid hotel and Spain will be represented by Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the spokesman said.
Zapatero will meet with UN chief Ban Ki-moon separately, he added.
Last month the UN chief named Zapatero and Kagame as the co-chairs of the advocacy group pushing for progress on the Millennium Development Goals that set the aim of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
Earlier on Thursday the Coordinating Committee for Development NGOs in Spain (CONGDE) said in a statement that the UN's choice of Kagame for the post was "questionable."
It criticised "Zapatero's passivity for accepting without objection to work beside someone accused of genocide".
Asked about the statement, the government spokesman said only that the decision to move the meeting to a hotel was taken on Thursday and the the government felt that Moratinos' presence at the meeting was "sufficient".
In 2008 Spain's High Court announced its intention to prosecute 40 Rwandan army officers for genocide, crimes against humanity and terrorism related to events that took place between 1994 and 2000. Most of the this time period was under the rule of now President Kagame's party the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
The Spanish judiciary claims President Kagame foremented the ethnic clashes in a deliberate bid to seize power. The Rwandan officers are accused, among other things, of murdering Spanish missionaries and Spanish expatriates who were witnesses to Kagame's army's massacres of Hutu.
Under Spanish law, a court can prosecute human rights crimes against its nationals even if the alleged offences took place abroad.
But President Kagame is immune from prosecution because of his status as head of state. His government has formally rejected the judge's accusations.
Others in the so-called MDG Advocacy Group, named after the Millennium Development Goals, include Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, CNN founder Ted Turner and Jeffrey Sachs of The Earth Institute and Columbia University.
Canadian Greens call for investigation into Rwandan Green Party member.
Green Party of Canada
Press Statement
July 15, 2010
OTTAWA — A full investigation is needed into the actions of the Rwandan Government, political violence and the ongoing Presidential elections.
The Green Party of Canada wishes to convey our deep concern over the news of the death of the Rwandan Greens’ Vice President Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka who went missing yesterday on July 13th. Mr. Kagwa Rwisereka was found dead this morning near the River Mukula. This follows a series of actions by the Kagame government to harass and arrest opposition leaders and political rivals. The Green Party of Rwanda has been consistently stymied by the actions of local government officials who have repeatedly interfered with the Party’s ability to register as an official party. Two of these attempts involved violence that broke up the meetings.
In the fall of 2009, Rwanda became a member of the Commonwealth with the backing of Canada, Britain, and Australia, among other nations, despite a report in July, 2009, by the Commonwealth’s own Human Rights Initiative which expressed deep reservations over the country’s human rights record. In particular, it noted that Rwanda needed to “Tackle a lack of political freedom and harassment of journalists…” Harassment of journalists and newspaper agencies has increased dramatically during this past election year and since Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth. The Canadian government has been silent on the elections in Rwanda and the actions of President Paul Kagame’s government.
The Green Party of Canada wishes to reiterate its support for founding President Mr. Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and the President of the African Greens Movement. The Green Party of Canada also remains in solidarity with the aspirations of the peoples of the continent of Africa to have their nations and communities embrace and build democratic societies which can live free from violence and environmental degradation. We strongly encourage the government of Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda, and all other government officials to reverse its recent descent into undemocratic practice and turn its energies towards a fully democratic, inclusive and peaceful society. We recognize that Rwandan society can and should be among the leading societies on the African continent in the efforts to combat climate change and environmental degradation which remains the greater overall threat to the future of all Africans.
We are disturbed by this recent news and once again, respectfully petition His Excellency Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda, and all other government officials concerned to do the following:
[a] To conduct a full investigation into the death of Mr.Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and all other acts of political violence;
[b] To do or perform any other act that is politically and legally conducive to the successful registration of democratic political parties;
[c] To continue to adhere to internationally accepted democratic principles so that the culture of multiparty democracy is entrenched in Rwandan society.
Contact Information:
Debra Eindiguer
Press Secretary
C: 613.240.8921
media@greenparty.ca
www.greenparty.ca
Press Statement
July 15, 2010
OTTAWA — A full investigation is needed into the actions of the Rwandan Government, political violence and the ongoing Presidential elections.
The Green Party of Canada wishes to convey our deep concern over the news of the death of the Rwandan Greens’ Vice President Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka who went missing yesterday on July 13th. Mr. Kagwa Rwisereka was found dead this morning near the River Mukula. This follows a series of actions by the Kagame government to harass and arrest opposition leaders and political rivals. The Green Party of Rwanda has been consistently stymied by the actions of local government officials who have repeatedly interfered with the Party’s ability to register as an official party. Two of these attempts involved violence that broke up the meetings.
In the fall of 2009, Rwanda became a member of the Commonwealth with the backing of Canada, Britain, and Australia, among other nations, despite a report in July, 2009, by the Commonwealth’s own Human Rights Initiative which expressed deep reservations over the country’s human rights record. In particular, it noted that Rwanda needed to “Tackle a lack of political freedom and harassment of journalists…” Harassment of journalists and newspaper agencies has increased dramatically during this past election year and since Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth. The Canadian government has been silent on the elections in Rwanda and the actions of President Paul Kagame’s government.
The Green Party of Canada wishes to reiterate its support for founding President Mr. Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and the President of the African Greens Movement. The Green Party of Canada also remains in solidarity with the aspirations of the peoples of the continent of Africa to have their nations and communities embrace and build democratic societies which can live free from violence and environmental degradation. We strongly encourage the government of Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda, and all other government officials to reverse its recent descent into undemocratic practice and turn its energies towards a fully democratic, inclusive and peaceful society. We recognize that Rwandan society can and should be among the leading societies on the African continent in the efforts to combat climate change and environmental degradation which remains the greater overall threat to the future of all Africans.
We are disturbed by this recent news and once again, respectfully petition His Excellency Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda, and all other government officials concerned to do the following:
[a] To conduct a full investigation into the death of Mr.Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and all other acts of political violence;
[b] To do or perform any other act that is politically and legally conducive to the successful registration of democratic political parties;
[c] To continue to adhere to internationally accepted democratic principles so that the culture of multiparty democracy is entrenched in Rwandan society.
Contact Information:
Debra Eindiguer
Press Secretary
C: 613.240.8921
media@greenparty.ca
www.greenparty.ca
15 July, 2010
Assault against free media continues with arrest of fortnightly’s editor.
Reporters Without Borders
13 July 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Union and other international donors to suspend their assistance to the Rwandan government and to stop providing financial support for the 9 August presidential election following a series of grave press freedom violations, the latest of which was a newspaper editor’s arrest last week.
“How much longer will the international community continue to endorse this repressive regime?” Reporters Without Borders asked. “The international community is becoming its accomplice by supporting next month’s election, for which the preparations are being accompanied by widespread harassment and abuses. If the European Union stopped disbursing its funding, it would be clear sign of opposition to the Rwandan government’s practices.”
Agnès Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the privately-owned fortnightly Umurabyo, was arrested on 8 July and placed in pre-trial detention in Kigali’s Remera police station in connection with the publication of several stories on “sensitive” subjects.
They included articles in the last two issues analysing and raising questions about the murder of Umuvugizi editor Jean-Léonard Rugambage and the attempted murder of an exiled Rwandan military officer, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, in South Africa.
Charged with inciting civil disobedience, insulting the president, spreading false rumours and denying the Tutsi genocide, Nkusi is expected to be brought to trial soon. Her arrest could pave the way for the fortnightly’s permanent closure.
Nkusi previously received a one-year jail sentence on charges of "sectarianism" and "defamation” in 2007, serving the entire sentence.
Her arrest last week follows Rugambage’s murder in June, the blocking of the Umuvugizi website, and the closure of Rwanda’s two leading independent newspapers, Umuvugizi and Umuseso, for six months.
Rwanda was ranked 157th out of 175 countries in the 2009 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. This was the fourth lowest ranking in Africa, above only Eritrea, Somalia and Equatorial Guinea. President Kagame has for years been on the Reporters Without Borders list of Predators of Press Freedom.
13 July 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Union and other international donors to suspend their assistance to the Rwandan government and to stop providing financial support for the 9 August presidential election following a series of grave press freedom violations, the latest of which was a newspaper editor’s arrest last week.
“How much longer will the international community continue to endorse this repressive regime?” Reporters Without Borders asked. “The international community is becoming its accomplice by supporting next month’s election, for which the preparations are being accompanied by widespread harassment and abuses. If the European Union stopped disbursing its funding, it would be clear sign of opposition to the Rwandan government’s practices.”
Agnès Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the privately-owned fortnightly Umurabyo, was arrested on 8 July and placed in pre-trial detention in Kigali’s Remera police station in connection with the publication of several stories on “sensitive” subjects.
They included articles in the last two issues analysing and raising questions about the murder of Umuvugizi editor Jean-Léonard Rugambage and the attempted murder of an exiled Rwandan military officer, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, in South Africa.
Charged with inciting civil disobedience, insulting the president, spreading false rumours and denying the Tutsi genocide, Nkusi is expected to be brought to trial soon. Her arrest could pave the way for the fortnightly’s permanent closure.
Nkusi previously received a one-year jail sentence on charges of "sectarianism" and "defamation” in 2007, serving the entire sentence.
Her arrest last week follows Rugambage’s murder in June, the blocking of the Umuvugizi website, and the closure of Rwanda’s two leading independent newspapers, Umuvugizi and Umuseso, for six months.
Rwanda was ranked 157th out of 175 countries in the 2009 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. This was the fourth lowest ranking in Africa, above only Eritrea, Somalia and Equatorial Guinea. President Kagame has for years been on the Reporters Without Borders list of Predators of Press Freedom.
EUROPEAN GREENS CALL FOR THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF RWANDAN GREEN PARTY VICE-PRESIDENT.
United Green Parties of Europe
Press Release
15 July 2010
The First Vice-President of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party, Mr Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who went missing early on Tuesday 13th July, has been found dead near the town of Butare in the south of Rwanda. Mr Rwisereka’s body had been badly mutilated and his car had been dumped close to where his body was found. His body was identified by his brother.
The Co-Spokespersons of the European Green Party, Monica Frassoni and Philippe Lamberts, have expressed their deepest sympathy for Mr Rwisereka’s family, friends and colleagues and called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death:
“This is extremely shocking and distressing news .We would like to send our most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and his colleagues in the Rwandan Democratic Green Party. We call on the Rwandan authorities and police to launch a thorough investigation into his death and for its findings to be published. We also reiterate our call to the Rwandan authorities to do much more to protect the freedom and safety of opposition politicians.“
“We also urge the EU to look into this case as a matter of urgency and to inform the Rwandan government about its concerns. We will be contacting the Rwandan embassy in Brussels to obtain more information about this terrible situation."
Press Release
15 July 2010
The First Vice-President of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party, Mr Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who went missing early on Tuesday 13th July, has been found dead near the town of Butare in the south of Rwanda. Mr Rwisereka’s body had been badly mutilated and his car had been dumped close to where his body was found. His body was identified by his brother.
The Co-Spokespersons of the European Green Party, Monica Frassoni and Philippe Lamberts, have expressed their deepest sympathy for Mr Rwisereka’s family, friends and colleagues and called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death:
“This is extremely shocking and distressing news .We would like to send our most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Andre Kagwa Rwisereka and his colleagues in the Rwandan Democratic Green Party. We call on the Rwandan authorities and police to launch a thorough investigation into his death and for its findings to be published. We also reiterate our call to the Rwandan authorities to do much more to protect the freedom and safety of opposition politicians.“
“We also urge the EU to look into this case as a matter of urgency and to inform the Rwandan government about its concerns. We will be contacting the Rwandan embassy in Brussels to obtain more information about this terrible situation."
Global Greens demand Commonwealth investigation into the murder of Rwandan Green Party Vice President.
Global Greens Coordination
Press Release
15 July 2010
The Global Greens express their deep shock and sadness at the murder of Rwandan Greens Vice President Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka on 13 July 2010. Mr. Rwisereka was a prominent member of the Rwandan Greens which has been systematically blocked from registering as a political party. The assassination of André Kagwa Rwisereka is a tragic event that requires a strong reaction from the Rwandan institutions. The murderers of André Kagwa Rwisereka must be identified and brought to justice.
Mr. Rwisereka’s murder appears to be another sign of the growing repression of Rwandan opposition groups and media as President Paul Kagame prepares for elections in August. There is serious doubt whether the elections will be free and fair.
The Global Greens call on the international community to react to the increasing violations of human rights and democratic rules in Rwanda.
The Global Greens call on the Commonwealth to act immediately to enforce its standards of human rights and democracy. Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth less than one year ago, in December 2009, against the clear advice of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI).
If the Commonwealth fails to act, now that the CHRI warnings about Rwanda are being bourne out, it will signal the Commonwealth’s shallow commitment to its values.
The Global Greens call on Green Parties around the world to raise the Rwandan situation with their governments and to request they take action to ensure that members of Green and other opposition parties are able to safely pursue their democratic rights
The Rwandan government must also guarantee the safety of opposition groups and individuals and their freedom to speak out against the regime.
We send our deepest sympathy to Mr Rwisereka’s family and colleagues.
More information: James Tonson, secretary@globalgreens.org.au
Press Release
15 July 2010
The Global Greens express their deep shock and sadness at the murder of Rwandan Greens Vice President Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka on 13 July 2010. Mr. Rwisereka was a prominent member of the Rwandan Greens which has been systematically blocked from registering as a political party. The assassination of André Kagwa Rwisereka is a tragic event that requires a strong reaction from the Rwandan institutions. The murderers of André Kagwa Rwisereka must be identified and brought to justice.
Mr. Rwisereka’s murder appears to be another sign of the growing repression of Rwandan opposition groups and media as President Paul Kagame prepares for elections in August. There is serious doubt whether the elections will be free and fair.
The Global Greens call on the international community to react to the increasing violations of human rights and democratic rules in Rwanda.
The Global Greens call on the Commonwealth to act immediately to enforce its standards of human rights and democracy. Rwanda was admitted to the Commonwealth less than one year ago, in December 2009, against the clear advice of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI).
If the Commonwealth fails to act, now that the CHRI warnings about Rwanda are being bourne out, it will signal the Commonwealth’s shallow commitment to its values.
The Global Greens call on Green Parties around the world to raise the Rwandan situation with their governments and to request they take action to ensure that members of Green and other opposition parties are able to safely pursue their democratic rights
The Rwandan government must also guarantee the safety of opposition groups and individuals and their freedom to speak out against the regime.
We send our deepest sympathy to Mr Rwisereka’s family and colleagues.
More information: James Tonson, secretary@globalgreens.org.au
Tanzania lawyer at Rwanda genocide court shot dead.
BBC News
15 July 2010
A senior Tanzanian defence lawyer at the UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda has been shot dead outside his home in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam.
Jwani Mwaikusa, who also taught law at the University of Dar es Salaam, was killed as he drove into his compound on the outskirts of the town.
Police say his nephew and a neighbour were also killed on Tuesday night.
The attackers are reported to have ransacked the professor's car, taking a briefcase and some documents.
Mr Mwaikusa worked as a defence counsel for Rwandan businessman Yussuf Munyakazi who was tried at International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, northern Tanzania.
He successfully blocked the transfer of Mr Munyakazi's trial to Rwanda, saying he would not receive a fair trial there.
15 July 2010
A senior Tanzanian defence lawyer at the UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda has been shot dead outside his home in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam.
Jwani Mwaikusa, who also taught law at the University of Dar es Salaam, was killed as he drove into his compound on the outskirts of the town.
Police say his nephew and a neighbour were also killed on Tuesday night.
The attackers are reported to have ransacked the professor's car, taking a briefcase and some documents.
Mr Mwaikusa worked as a defence counsel for Rwandan businessman Yussuf Munyakazi who was tried at International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, northern Tanzania.
He successfully blocked the transfer of Mr Munyakazi's trial to Rwanda, saying he would not receive a fair trial there.
Kampala urged to end “gunpoint” deportations.
IRIN
15 July 2010
Uganda has begun “forcibly” deporting hundreds of Rwandans from two southwestern refugee camps, at gunpoint according to one witness, prompting the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to call for a suspension of the operation.
Both countries have long tried to rid Uganda of Rwandan refugees who for their part say they do not feel safe going home. (See box)
Tarsis Kabwegyere, the Ugandan minister in charge of disaster preparedness and refugees, said the operation, which started on 14 July, targeted illegal immigrants "who had no good reason to stay here".
"They had no documents and over 1,700 were taken back,” he added.
“The UNHCR knows about it. It was not done in secrecy; the government of Rwanda provided transport, food and water to us. They only took their people home. They are responsible for their citizens."
But UNHCR distanced itself from the operation.
"We are not involved," UNHCR resident representative in Uganda Kai Nielsen told IRIN on 15 July.
"It is a bilateral arrangement between the two governments of Uganda and Rwanda. We have appealed to the Ugandan government to suspend the police operation which is taking place in the refugee camps of Nakivale and Kyaka without UNHCR involvement to forcibly return Rwandans back to their country."
Read more
UGANDA: Innocent Rokundo, "Will they send me home?"
RWANDA-UGANDA: Refugees face hunger as farming ban bites
UGANDA: One doctor for 16,200 refugees (March 11, 2010)
RWANDA: Group refugee status could be lifted by late 2011
RWANDA-UGANDA: Go home, Uganda tells Rwandan refugees
RWANDA-UGANDA: Refugees leave camps fearing repatriation
“A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda” available on www.refugeelawproject.org and www.refugee-rights.org
“Not given a fair chance”
"While we fully respect the government’s right to deal with rejected asylum-seekers after they have exhausted the legal appeal process, we are gravely concerned that some of those targeted for deportation to Rwanda were not given a fair chance to have their asylum claims examined. Any forcible repatriation constitutes a breach of international as well as Ugandan asylum laws."
International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Refugee Law Project also condemned the operation, saying it violated Uganda’s constitution, and, because families were allegedly separated, the Children’s Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Nielsen said: "Police cordoned off the camp. We have been told that the refugees were gathered to be briefed about the results of their [asylum] appeal process, while others were told that they were going to receive food rations."
"Instead, they were rounded up and bundled on to waiting trucks that drove them towards Rwanda. Between 1,000 and 2,000 were repatriated," he said.
Rwanda’s Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugee Affairs told IRIN that those repatriated, “around 2,000” were now in a transit camp in Gicumbi district “so we can see which district they are coming from.”
“We are arranging to give them some requirements needed for one month, food or kitchen items and so on, and we have arranged transport to let them go back to their district of origin,” he added.
Tricked
A Rwandan community leader among the refugees in Juru A camp - one of the settlements in Nakivale predominantly occupied by Rwandans - told IRIN on the telephone: “When we were called to the camp offices [on 14 July], we thought it was for a meeting but when we got there we found the police and camp commanders and about 12 trucks.
“The situation was very bad; we were held at gunpoint as the police and the commanders tied people’s hands and forced them into the trucks; those who escaped were shot at. I understand several people were injured in the chaos," the community leader, who requested anonymity, said.
He said some of those who were being herded into the vehicles were beaten up when they tried to resist.
“Right now there are very few Rwandans in Nakivale camp. Many have fled into the bush or among the host community. Those left are mostly children and the aged who cannot run," the community leader said. "I have heard that some of those who have fled are in very bad conditions in the bush."
Another Rwandan refugee in Nakivale, said: “They took many of my neighbours yesterday; I am too old to run or to return to Rwanda. What will happen to me? I am worried for my grandson who I take care of and who is in high school. I fear they might catch him and force him to go to Rwanda yet he was born here. My son, his father, is dead, he knows no other home. What will happen to us?”
15 July 2010
Uganda has begun “forcibly” deporting hundreds of Rwandans from two southwestern refugee camps, at gunpoint according to one witness, prompting the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to call for a suspension of the operation.
Both countries have long tried to rid Uganda of Rwandan refugees who for their part say they do not feel safe going home. (See box)
Tarsis Kabwegyere, the Ugandan minister in charge of disaster preparedness and refugees, said the operation, which started on 14 July, targeted illegal immigrants "who had no good reason to stay here".
"They had no documents and over 1,700 were taken back,” he added.
“The UNHCR knows about it. It was not done in secrecy; the government of Rwanda provided transport, food and water to us. They only took their people home. They are responsible for their citizens."
But UNHCR distanced itself from the operation.
"We are not involved," UNHCR resident representative in Uganda Kai Nielsen told IRIN on 15 July.
"It is a bilateral arrangement between the two governments of Uganda and Rwanda. We have appealed to the Ugandan government to suspend the police operation which is taking place in the refugee camps of Nakivale and Kyaka without UNHCR involvement to forcibly return Rwandans back to their country."
Read more
UGANDA: Innocent Rokundo, "Will they send me home?"
RWANDA-UGANDA: Refugees face hunger as farming ban bites
UGANDA: One doctor for 16,200 refugees (March 11, 2010)
RWANDA: Group refugee status could be lifted by late 2011
RWANDA-UGANDA: Go home, Uganda tells Rwandan refugees
RWANDA-UGANDA: Refugees leave camps fearing repatriation
“A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda” available on www.refugeelawproject.org and www.refugee-rights.org
“Not given a fair chance”
"While we fully respect the government’s right to deal with rejected asylum-seekers after they have exhausted the legal appeal process, we are gravely concerned that some of those targeted for deportation to Rwanda were not given a fair chance to have their asylum claims examined. Any forcible repatriation constitutes a breach of international as well as Ugandan asylum laws."
International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Refugee Law Project also condemned the operation, saying it violated Uganda’s constitution, and, because families were allegedly separated, the Children’s Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Nielsen said: "Police cordoned off the camp. We have been told that the refugees were gathered to be briefed about the results of their [asylum] appeal process, while others were told that they were going to receive food rations."
"Instead, they were rounded up and bundled on to waiting trucks that drove them towards Rwanda. Between 1,000 and 2,000 were repatriated," he said.
Rwanda’s Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugee Affairs told IRIN that those repatriated, “around 2,000” were now in a transit camp in Gicumbi district “so we can see which district they are coming from.”
“We are arranging to give them some requirements needed for one month, food or kitchen items and so on, and we have arranged transport to let them go back to their district of origin,” he added.
Tricked
A Rwandan community leader among the refugees in Juru A camp - one of the settlements in Nakivale predominantly occupied by Rwandans - told IRIN on the telephone: “When we were called to the camp offices [on 14 July], we thought it was for a meeting but when we got there we found the police and camp commanders and about 12 trucks.
“The situation was very bad; we were held at gunpoint as the police and the commanders tied people’s hands and forced them into the trucks; those who escaped were shot at. I understand several people were injured in the chaos," the community leader, who requested anonymity, said.
He said some of those who were being herded into the vehicles were beaten up when they tried to resist.
“Right now there are very few Rwandans in Nakivale camp. Many have fled into the bush or among the host community. Those left are mostly children and the aged who cannot run," the community leader said. "I have heard that some of those who have fled are in very bad conditions in the bush."
Another Rwandan refugee in Nakivale, said: “They took many of my neighbours yesterday; I am too old to run or to return to Rwanda. What will happen to me? I am worried for my grandson who I take care of and who is in high school. I fear they might catch him and force him to go to Rwanda yet he was born here. My son, his father, is dead, he knows no other home. What will happen to us?”
Ugandan Government Forces Mass Removal of Rwandan Refugees From Settlements.
Statement issued by the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) and the Refugee Law Project (RLP).
15 July 2010
Reports reaching IRRI and RLP indicate that on the morning of Wednesday 14th July 2010, OPM Directorate of Refugees and Police officers in Nakivale (Isingiro District) and Kyaka II (Kyenjonjo District) began rounding up Rwandans and forcing them against their will to board trucks to return them to Rwanda.
Reports indicate that those targeted in this manner were lured with the promise that they would be granted refugee status and food. Instead they were met by a large number of Ugandan police who rounded them up and forced them onto trucks.
Shots were fired by police. Some individuals appear to have been injured during the process, and in some cases parents were separated from children. Reports further suggest that Rwandan security agents and authorities were present at the scene.
By removing settlement-based Rwandans in this manner, the Ugandan government is in breach of its own Citizenship and Immigration Act, which outlines the due processes by which failed asylum seekers who have exhausted their right of appeal should be deported.
It has also violated the obligations created by domestic and international law, including the Constitution, the Children’s Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These breaches come just days before the African Union Summit on ‘Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa’ is due to begin in Kampala.
IRRI and RLP condemn this forcible removal of Rwandans from Ugandan refugee settlements.
We further note that this comes barely a month after our drawing public attention to the fact that many Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers fear persecution if returned to their country of origin (see report titled, “A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda” available on www.refugeelawproject.org and www.refugee-rights.org ).
The report made a number of recommendations to the governments of Uganda and Rwanda, and to UNHCR, in order to improve protection for this group of refugees. In particular, it stated that the Ugandan government must scrupulously uphold its international and national legal obligations with regard to the protection of refugees and to the truly voluntary nature of any repatriation.
We therefore call for an immediate halt to the current removal process. We also call on the Ugandan government to ensure that any failed asylum seekers are able to exhaust the appeal processes provided for under the Refugees Act, and, where these routes have indeed been exhausted, that the Government follow due process for deportation as provided for under the Citizenship and Immigration Control Act.
15 July 2010
Reports reaching IRRI and RLP indicate that on the morning of Wednesday 14th July 2010, OPM Directorate of Refugees and Police officers in Nakivale (Isingiro District) and Kyaka II (Kyenjonjo District) began rounding up Rwandans and forcing them against their will to board trucks to return them to Rwanda.
Reports indicate that those targeted in this manner were lured with the promise that they would be granted refugee status and food. Instead they were met by a large number of Ugandan police who rounded them up and forced them onto trucks.
Shots were fired by police. Some individuals appear to have been injured during the process, and in some cases parents were separated from children. Reports further suggest that Rwandan security agents and authorities were present at the scene.
By removing settlement-based Rwandans in this manner, the Ugandan government is in breach of its own Citizenship and Immigration Act, which outlines the due processes by which failed asylum seekers who have exhausted their right of appeal should be deported.
It has also violated the obligations created by domestic and international law, including the Constitution, the Children’s Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These breaches come just days before the African Union Summit on ‘Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa’ is due to begin in Kampala.
IRRI and RLP condemn this forcible removal of Rwandans from Ugandan refugee settlements.
We further note that this comes barely a month after our drawing public attention to the fact that many Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers fear persecution if returned to their country of origin (see report titled, “A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda” available on www.refugeelawproject.org and www.refugee-rights.org ).
The report made a number of recommendations to the governments of Uganda and Rwanda, and to UNHCR, in order to improve protection for this group of refugees. In particular, it stated that the Ugandan government must scrupulously uphold its international and national legal obligations with regard to the protection of refugees and to the truly voluntary nature of any repatriation.
We therefore call for an immediate halt to the current removal process. We also call on the Ugandan government to ensure that any failed asylum seekers are able to exhaust the appeal processes provided for under the Refugees Act, and, where these routes have indeed been exhausted, that the Government follow due process for deportation as provided for under the Citizenship and Immigration Control Act.
Rwandan Opposition Demands International Action on Assassinations in Rwanda.
Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda (PCC)
C/O B.P.6334
Kigali,Rwanda
Tel :+250 788563039, +250728636000, +250788307145
PRESS RELEASE
The Permanent Consultative Council of opposition parties in Rwanda (PCC) is deeply concerned and uttery shocked about the death of the First Vice-President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA. We strongly condemn this inhumane action. We call upon the Rwandan Government to quickly conduct its investigation and bring the criminal(s) to justice. We also call for an international independent inquiry over the assassination of this key opposition leader.
Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, who went missing yesterday 13th July 2010, was found dead on 14th July 2010. His head was almost completely cut off of his body. He was born on 31 December 1949, in Rusenge, Nyaruguru District, Southern Province, of Rwanda. He went into political exile in the early 1960’s. He stayed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where he obtained a degree in education. While in the DRC, he became one of the senior members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). He was also a prominent businessman in the town of Butare. He was among the founding members of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda on 14th August 2009, at the ex-Novotel Hotel in Kigali. He is survived by his four children.
In less than a month, the spree of oppression is alarmingly increasing. On 24th June 2010, Mr. Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE, the Rwandan acting editor of the newspaper UMUVUGIZI, which was critical of the ruling RPF party, was shot dead in front of his home. Earlier that day, many opposition members, including Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, were arrested and stayed in police custody for over a week. They revealed to the Judge serious wounds from torture, ill-treatment, and said they had endured abusive hate speech. On 19th June 2010, in Johannesburg, a Rwandan former Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General KAYUMBA NYAMWASA survived an assassination attempt. Another assassination was reported on 21st June 2010, in Gisenyi town, located in Northern Rwanda. The victim was Denis Ntare SEMADWINGA, former Chief of Staff to Laurent NKUNDA. Sibomana RUSANGWA AIMABLE, the Private Secretary for the founding President of the PS-Imberakuri party, was reported missing since 13th June and their whereabouts remain completely unknown. Two local newspapers, UMUSESO and UMUVUGIZI, have been "suspended" while the entire editing team of the newspaper UMURABYO are now in police custody.
The Parti Social-Imberakuri, has been split into two factions, a pro-government wing and another represented by Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA, founding President of the PS Imberakuri, who is currently in a Kigali maximum prison on politically motivated charges. Most of his colleagues were also arrested and released on bail. They also told the court and prosecution they were tortured while in police detention.
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has been prevented from registering after trying several times. Its most recent attempt was when it requested the Government grant permission to have a founding congress on 4th June 2010. The request never received any response from Gasabo District officials. Earlier the party had officially requested the Ministry of Local Government, which is in charge of political parties, to intervene in its situation. The party never received any official response, despite after having been invited to a meeting with Ministry officials. The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda still hopes that the Government will respond positively to its earlier requests.
The FDU-Inkingi, also not registered, is facing a critical situation. Its Chairperson, Mrs. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA is still under extended house arrest; Mr. Sylvain SIBOMANA, the party's Secretary-General, and Ms. Alice MUHIRWA, the party's Treasurer, have been released on bail. The FDU-Inkingi tried several times to get registered but was not allowed to by the government. The FDU-Inkingi officially requested the Ministry of Local Government to intervene in its situation. The party also never received any official response.
The PCC calls for an independent international investigation into the assassination of Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, journalist Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE and other allegations of torture and/or death threats to numerous opposition members.
We also call upon the Government of Rwanda to use all means possible to ensure peace and tranquillity in Rwanda. We also call upon the Rwandan Government to allow opposition parties be registered and campaign freely; release Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA of the PS-Imberakuri and immediately waive all politically motivated criminal charges levelled against opposition members.
Issued in Kigali,
15th July 2010
Mrs. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA
Chairperson, United Democratic Forces-Inkingi
Mr. Frank HABINEZA
Chairman, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Mr. Theobald MUTARAMBIRWA
Secretary General, PS-Imberakuri
C/O B.P.6334
Kigali,Rwanda
Tel :+250 788563039, +250728636000, +250788307145
PRESS RELEASE
The Permanent Consultative Council of opposition parties in Rwanda (PCC) is deeply concerned and uttery shocked about the death of the First Vice-President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA. We strongly condemn this inhumane action. We call upon the Rwandan Government to quickly conduct its investigation and bring the criminal(s) to justice. We also call for an international independent inquiry over the assassination of this key opposition leader.
Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, who went missing yesterday 13th July 2010, was found dead on 14th July 2010. His head was almost completely cut off of his body. He was born on 31 December 1949, in Rusenge, Nyaruguru District, Southern Province, of Rwanda. He went into political exile in the early 1960’s. He stayed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where he obtained a degree in education. While in the DRC, he became one of the senior members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). He was also a prominent businessman in the town of Butare. He was among the founding members of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda on 14th August 2009, at the ex-Novotel Hotel in Kigali. He is survived by his four children.
In less than a month, the spree of oppression is alarmingly increasing. On 24th June 2010, Mr. Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE, the Rwandan acting editor of the newspaper UMUVUGIZI, which was critical of the ruling RPF party, was shot dead in front of his home. Earlier that day, many opposition members, including Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, were arrested and stayed in police custody for over a week. They revealed to the Judge serious wounds from torture, ill-treatment, and said they had endured abusive hate speech. On 19th June 2010, in Johannesburg, a Rwandan former Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General KAYUMBA NYAMWASA survived an assassination attempt. Another assassination was reported on 21st June 2010, in Gisenyi town, located in Northern Rwanda. The victim was Denis Ntare SEMADWINGA, former Chief of Staff to Laurent NKUNDA. Sibomana RUSANGWA AIMABLE, the Private Secretary for the founding President of the PS-Imberakuri party, was reported missing since 13th June and their whereabouts remain completely unknown. Two local newspapers, UMUSESO and UMUVUGIZI, have been "suspended" while the entire editing team of the newspaper UMURABYO are now in police custody.
The Parti Social-Imberakuri, has been split into two factions, a pro-government wing and another represented by Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA, founding President of the PS Imberakuri, who is currently in a Kigali maximum prison on politically motivated charges. Most of his colleagues were also arrested and released on bail. They also told the court and prosecution they were tortured while in police detention.
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda has been prevented from registering after trying several times. Its most recent attempt was when it requested the Government grant permission to have a founding congress on 4th June 2010. The request never received any response from Gasabo District officials. Earlier the party had officially requested the Ministry of Local Government, which is in charge of political parties, to intervene in its situation. The party never received any official response, despite after having been invited to a meeting with Ministry officials. The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda still hopes that the Government will respond positively to its earlier requests.
The FDU-Inkingi, also not registered, is facing a critical situation. Its Chairperson, Mrs. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA is still under extended house arrest; Mr. Sylvain SIBOMANA, the party's Secretary-General, and Ms. Alice MUHIRWA, the party's Treasurer, have been released on bail. The FDU-Inkingi tried several times to get registered but was not allowed to by the government. The FDU-Inkingi officially requested the Ministry of Local Government to intervene in its situation. The party also never received any official response.
The PCC calls for an independent international investigation into the assassination of Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, journalist Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE and other allegations of torture and/or death threats to numerous opposition members.
We also call upon the Government of Rwanda to use all means possible to ensure peace and tranquillity in Rwanda. We also call upon the Rwandan Government to allow opposition parties be registered and campaign freely; release Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA of the PS-Imberakuri and immediately waive all politically motivated criminal charges levelled against opposition members.
Issued in Kigali,
15th July 2010
Mrs. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA
Chairperson, United Democratic Forces-Inkingi
Mr. Frank HABINEZA
Chairman, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Mr. Theobald MUTARAMBIRWA
Secretary General, PS-Imberakuri
ICTR Defense Lawyer Killed in Tanzania.
Hirondelle News Agency
14 July 2010
Tanzanian Professor Jwani Mwaikusa, lead defence counsel for Yusuf Munyakazi, who was sentenced to a 25-year term last month by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), was shot dead by unknown bandits alongside two other persons on Tuesday night at his Salasala resident in Dar es Salaam.
‘’The Police force has already mounted a strong tracking team for the killers though we have not yet managed to arrest any suspects,’’ Police spokesperson, Advera Senso told Hirondelle News Agency in a telephone interview.
She narrated that Mwaikusa was gunned down as he was getting into his house at 10.30 pm by unknown assailants together with two other persons who showed up to assist him as he struggled for his life.
When his client, Rwandan businessman Munyakazi, 75, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of genocide and a count of crimes against humanity, Mwaikusa immediately, in consultation with his client, vowed to appeal the verdict.
Mwaikusa held a PH.D of philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He was the first defence counsel to lead a successful rejection of the Prosecutors motion to transfer the case of his client to be tried in Rwanda.
14 July 2010
Tanzanian Professor Jwani Mwaikusa, lead defence counsel for Yusuf Munyakazi, who was sentenced to a 25-year term last month by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), was shot dead by unknown bandits alongside two other persons on Tuesday night at his Salasala resident in Dar es Salaam.
‘’The Police force has already mounted a strong tracking team for the killers though we have not yet managed to arrest any suspects,’’ Police spokesperson, Advera Senso told Hirondelle News Agency in a telephone interview.
She narrated that Mwaikusa was gunned down as he was getting into his house at 10.30 pm by unknown assailants together with two other persons who showed up to assist him as he struggled for his life.
When his client, Rwandan businessman Munyakazi, 75, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of genocide and a count of crimes against humanity, Mwaikusa immediately, in consultation with his client, vowed to appeal the verdict.
Mwaikusa held a PH.D of philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He was the first defence counsel to lead a successful rejection of the Prosecutors motion to transfer the case of his client to be tried in Rwanda.
14 July, 2010
Kenya-Sudan Oil Pipeline Still Possible.
VOA
13 July 2010
By Michael Onyiego
Responding to comments made by the Sudanese oil minister opposing the construction of an oil pipeline from South Sudan into northeastern Kenya, members of the Southern People's Liberation Movement say the South has not lost interest in the project.
With economic integration of the East African Community underway, Kenya is working to cement its position as the hub of the growing region. At the heart of the country's ambition is a proposed port in the small island town of Lamu, just off Kenya's northern coast.
The dream of a second major port, however, took a potential blow Monday when Sudanese Oil Minister Lual Acuek Deng came out against a proposed oil pipeline to connect the facility with Sudan's southern capital, Juba. Speaking to Khartoum newspaper al-Akhbar, Deng called the project uneconomical and said that existing facilities in Port Sudan, more than 2,000 kilometers north of Juba, could better serve the South's needs.
The statement came as a surprise from Deng, a member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, who was appointed Minister of Oil just weeks ago. A source within the SPLM said that Deng's comments did not represent the official position of the Government of South Sudan, but his opinion as Minister of Oil in the Government of National Unity.
SPLM member and former Head of Mission in Kenya for the Government of South Sudan, John Andruga Duku, concurred with the assessment, saying the South has not made any decisions regarding the pipeline.
"Dr. Lual Acuek is a member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, but he is not speaking the behalf of the Government of South Sudan," said Duku. "We have not done, really, a feasibility study to say definitely that this is not good economically. He is a minister of the Government of National Unity. Although he is from SPLM, he has to toe the line of the national government."
The pipeline is an important component of the future port, which will include a refinery to tap into South Sudan's vast deposits of oil.
The region is widely expected to choose independence from the North through a referendum in January. Many economic analysts predict the new nation will orient itself south, toward the five members of the East African Community, rather than deepening its ties with Khartoum.
But even if the pipeline is not built, the proposed port still may be necessary. Kenya's main port, Mombasa, is operating nearly at capacity and could fall short of servicing the demand in coming years. According to Kenya's largest newspaper the Daily Nation, the port at Mombasa is capable of receiving 20 million tons of cargo per year, and received 19 million in 2009.
Analyst on the Kenyan economy Robert Shaw says the region's potential for economic growth make the Lamu project practical, with or without the pipeline.
"It is not just Southern Sudan and it is not just oil," said Shaw. "Lamu looks quite attractive for access even from Ethiopia and certainly for goods coming from Juba, even if they do not think that a pipeline is viable. Kenya is a very important hub to southern Sudan, and that relationship is likely to broaden and strengthen and it is to the benefit of both countries."
The port facility is one of the key pieces of Vision 2030, a plan for economic and infrastructure development laid out by the government to take advantage of East Africa's budding economic potential by the year 2030.
Kenya has secured commitment from the Chinese government to help fund the port, which it hopes to complete by 2016. Japanese giant Toyota Tsusho, the trading subsidiary of automaker Toyota, also has expressed interest in collaboration on the project.
13 July 2010
By Michael Onyiego
Responding to comments made by the Sudanese oil minister opposing the construction of an oil pipeline from South Sudan into northeastern Kenya, members of the Southern People's Liberation Movement say the South has not lost interest in the project.
With economic integration of the East African Community underway, Kenya is working to cement its position as the hub of the growing region. At the heart of the country's ambition is a proposed port in the small island town of Lamu, just off Kenya's northern coast.
The dream of a second major port, however, took a potential blow Monday when Sudanese Oil Minister Lual Acuek Deng came out against a proposed oil pipeline to connect the facility with Sudan's southern capital, Juba. Speaking to Khartoum newspaper al-Akhbar, Deng called the project uneconomical and said that existing facilities in Port Sudan, more than 2,000 kilometers north of Juba, could better serve the South's needs.
The statement came as a surprise from Deng, a member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, who was appointed Minister of Oil just weeks ago. A source within the SPLM said that Deng's comments did not represent the official position of the Government of South Sudan, but his opinion as Minister of Oil in the Government of National Unity.
SPLM member and former Head of Mission in Kenya for the Government of South Sudan, John Andruga Duku, concurred with the assessment, saying the South has not made any decisions regarding the pipeline.
"Dr. Lual Acuek is a member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, but he is not speaking the behalf of the Government of South Sudan," said Duku. "We have not done, really, a feasibility study to say definitely that this is not good economically. He is a minister of the Government of National Unity. Although he is from SPLM, he has to toe the line of the national government."
The pipeline is an important component of the future port, which will include a refinery to tap into South Sudan's vast deposits of oil.
The region is widely expected to choose independence from the North through a referendum in January. Many economic analysts predict the new nation will orient itself south, toward the five members of the East African Community, rather than deepening its ties with Khartoum.
But even if the pipeline is not built, the proposed port still may be necessary. Kenya's main port, Mombasa, is operating nearly at capacity and could fall short of servicing the demand in coming years. According to Kenya's largest newspaper the Daily Nation, the port at Mombasa is capable of receiving 20 million tons of cargo per year, and received 19 million in 2009.
Analyst on the Kenyan economy Robert Shaw says the region's potential for economic growth make the Lamu project practical, with or without the pipeline.
"It is not just Southern Sudan and it is not just oil," said Shaw. "Lamu looks quite attractive for access even from Ethiopia and certainly for goods coming from Juba, even if they do not think that a pipeline is viable. Kenya is a very important hub to southern Sudan, and that relationship is likely to broaden and strengthen and it is to the benefit of both countries."
The port facility is one of the key pieces of Vision 2030, a plan for economic and infrastructure development laid out by the government to take advantage of East Africa's budding economic potential by the year 2030.
Kenya has secured commitment from the Chinese government to help fund the port, which it hopes to complete by 2016. Japanese giant Toyota Tsusho, the trading subsidiary of automaker Toyota, also has expressed interest in collaboration on the project.
Rwandan Opposition Politician Murdered.
Reuters
14 July 2010
By Hereward Holland
The body of a senior member of an unregistered Rwandan political party has been found near his abandoned car only weeks ahead of the presidential election, his party and police said on Wednesday.
The Democratic Green Party's vice president, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, was reported missing early on Tuesday. His pick-up truck was found in wetlands near the Mukula river close to the southern city of Butare.
"His head was almost completely removed from his body. His brother Antoine Haguma confirms seeing the dead body," Frank Habineza, founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, said in a statement.
Police confirmed the death.
"His body was found this morning 3 km (2 miles) from where his car was found, along with a large knife which may have been used in the killing. It was a kind of machete," police spokesperson Eric Kayiranga said.
"People who saw him that night say he had a lot of money, so it is suspected it may be a robbery case. Investigations have begun."
Kayiranga said Rwisereka had chest wounds and his body had been taken to hospital.
Frank Habineza said he now lives in fear because he has previously been threatened and trailed.
"Personally I'm very scared because ... I've received death threats, that I was supposed to be killed before the election. My vice president is now dead, I'm very scared," he told Reuters by telephone.
Mr. Habineza added that Rwisereka was not carrying any money when he went missing.
"As far as money is concerned, he left 600,000 Rwandan francs (about R 7,843) with his sister the night before, which she was supposed to bank before he came to Kigali... so he was not carrying money with him," Habineza said.
14 July 2010
By Hereward Holland
The body of a senior member of an unregistered Rwandan political party has been found near his abandoned car only weeks ahead of the presidential election, his party and police said on Wednesday.
The Democratic Green Party's vice president, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, was reported missing early on Tuesday. His pick-up truck was found in wetlands near the Mukula river close to the southern city of Butare.
"His head was almost completely removed from his body. His brother Antoine Haguma confirms seeing the dead body," Frank Habineza, founding President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, said in a statement.
Police confirmed the death.
"His body was found this morning 3 km (2 miles) from where his car was found, along with a large knife which may have been used in the killing. It was a kind of machete," police spokesperson Eric Kayiranga said.
"People who saw him that night say he had a lot of money, so it is suspected it may be a robbery case. Investigations have begun."
Kayiranga said Rwisereka had chest wounds and his body had been taken to hospital.
Frank Habineza said he now lives in fear because he has previously been threatened and trailed.
"Personally I'm very scared because ... I've received death threats, that I was supposed to be killed before the election. My vice president is now dead, I'm very scared," he told Reuters by telephone.
Mr. Habineza added that Rwisereka was not carrying any money when he went missing.
"As far as money is concerned, he left 600,000 Rwandan francs (about R 7,843) with his sister the night before, which she was supposed to bank before he came to Kigali... so he was not carrying money with him," Habineza said.
Media rights group urge donors to blacklist Rwanda.
AFP
14 July 2010
A prominent media rights group called Wednesday on the European Union and other donors to suspend financial support for Rwanda's "repressive" regime ahead of next month's presidential polls.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) said Rwanda's government, led by President Paul Kagame, was responsible for "a series of grave press freedom violations" in the African country.
They included the arrest and detention of journalists, closure of Rwanda's two leading independent newspapers for six months, and blocking access to another publication's website.
"How much longer will the international community continue to endorse this repressive regime?" it asked in a statement.
"The international community is becoming its accomplice by supporting next month?s election, for which the preparations are being accompanied by widespread harassment and abuses.
"If the European Union stopped disbursing its funding, it would be clear sign of opposition to the Rwandan government?s practices."
RSF said journalist Agnes Uwimana was arrested July 8 after publication of "sensitive" articles about the murder of newspaper editor Jean-Leonard Rugambage and the attempted murder of exiled general Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa.
Rugambage, who had accused the Rwandan government of being behind an assassination attempt on a dissident general in South Africa, was gunned down near his house in Kigali on June 25.
According to Rwandan newspaper reports, two other journalists from Uwimana's privately-owned fortnightly, Umurabyo, were detained on Tuesday.
14 July 2010
A prominent media rights group called Wednesday on the European Union and other donors to suspend financial support for Rwanda's "repressive" regime ahead of next month's presidential polls.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) said Rwanda's government, led by President Paul Kagame, was responsible for "a series of grave press freedom violations" in the African country.
They included the arrest and detention of journalists, closure of Rwanda's two leading independent newspapers for six months, and blocking access to another publication's website.
"How much longer will the international community continue to endorse this repressive regime?" it asked in a statement.
"The international community is becoming its accomplice by supporting next month?s election, for which the preparations are being accompanied by widespread harassment and abuses.
"If the European Union stopped disbursing its funding, it would be clear sign of opposition to the Rwandan government?s practices."
RSF said journalist Agnes Uwimana was arrested July 8 after publication of "sensitive" articles about the murder of newspaper editor Jean-Leonard Rugambage and the attempted murder of exiled general Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa.
Rugambage, who had accused the Rwandan government of being behind an assassination attempt on a dissident general in South Africa, was gunned down near his house in Kigali on June 25.
According to Rwandan newspaper reports, two other journalists from Uwimana's privately-owned fortnightly, Umurabyo, were detained on Tuesday.
Rwandan Democratic Green Party Vice President Found Dead, Party Says he was Assassinated.
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Press Release
The First Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who went missing yesterday 13th July 2010, was found dead this morning, 14th July 2010.
His head was almost completely removed from his body. He was found in the very same wetlands of the River Mukula where his car was dumped, located about 3 km away from Butare town. His brother Antoine Haguma confirmed identifying the body.
During our visit to Butare yesterday, we found out that his national ID card, driver’s license, house and car keys were all found inside the dumped car, which is now parked at the police headquarters in Huye-Butare town. His passport was also found in his house, which is located in Taba-Butare Town.
Issued in Kigali,
14th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA,
Founding President,
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Press Release
The First Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Mr. Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who went missing yesterday 13th July 2010, was found dead this morning, 14th July 2010.
His head was almost completely removed from his body. He was found in the very same wetlands of the River Mukula where his car was dumped, located about 3 km away from Butare town. His brother Antoine Haguma confirmed identifying the body.
During our visit to Butare yesterday, we found out that his national ID card, driver’s license, house and car keys were all found inside the dumped car, which is now parked at the police headquarters in Huye-Butare town. His passport was also found in his house, which is located in Taba-Butare Town.
Issued in Kigali,
14th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA,
Founding President,
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
PRESIDENT URIBE’S COUSIN FACES COLLUSION WITH PARAMILITARIES CHARGES IN COURT.
MISNA
13 July 2010
The former parliamentary speaker Mario Uribe Escobar (and cousin of president Alvaro Uribe) has pleaded not guilty in trial where he faces charges of colluding with the so called ‘death squadrons’ of the right wing, and now dissolved, paramilitary group Colombian Self Defense Units (AUC). Uribe Escobar was indicted before the Supreme Court along with former MP’s Eleonora Pineda and Miguel de la Espriella who had admitted to having had ties to the paramilitary network led by Salvatore Mancuso, who was first to point the finger against the former senator. During the first hearing, the transcription of a radio recording in which Mancuso, who was extradited to the USA in 2008 to face narcotics trading charges, is speaking to Pinea concering the various relationships between several political figures and the paramilitary groups, investigated as part of the ‘para-politica’ scandal. Over 90 MP’s are being investigated as part of the investigation, mostl of who represent the majority.
Thirty MP’s have already been handed prison sentences and are serving them. In the transcription, Uribe Escobar is cited in reference to an alleged support received by the paramilitaries for the 2002 legislative elections that brought him to parliament. The former senator, currently held in Bogota’s La Picota prison, has admitted to having met Mancuso only to speak about the peace process between the government and the paramilitaries. In the trial involving Uribe Escobar, the witnesses include president elect Juan Manuel Santos, who takes office on August 7 and the president of the Colombian oil company (Ecopetrol) Javier Gutiérrez. The Supreme Court had ordered Uribne Escobar’s arrest in April 2008 after the confessions of a paramilitary commander known as ‘Pitirri’ whom the former senator is said to have met on many occasions to conclude political accords.
13 July 2010
The former parliamentary speaker Mario Uribe Escobar (and cousin of president Alvaro Uribe) has pleaded not guilty in trial where he faces charges of colluding with the so called ‘death squadrons’ of the right wing, and now dissolved, paramilitary group Colombian Self Defense Units (AUC). Uribe Escobar was indicted before the Supreme Court along with former MP’s Eleonora Pineda and Miguel de la Espriella who had admitted to having had ties to the paramilitary network led by Salvatore Mancuso, who was first to point the finger against the former senator. During the first hearing, the transcription of a radio recording in which Mancuso, who was extradited to the USA in 2008 to face narcotics trading charges, is speaking to Pinea concering the various relationships between several political figures and the paramilitary groups, investigated as part of the ‘para-politica’ scandal. Over 90 MP’s are being investigated as part of the investigation, mostl of who represent the majority.
Thirty MP’s have already been handed prison sentences and are serving them. In the transcription, Uribe Escobar is cited in reference to an alleged support received by the paramilitaries for the 2002 legislative elections that brought him to parliament. The former senator, currently held in Bogota’s La Picota prison, has admitted to having met Mancuso only to speak about the peace process between the government and the paramilitaries. In the trial involving Uribe Escobar, the witnesses include president elect Juan Manuel Santos, who takes office on August 7 and the president of the Colombian oil company (Ecopetrol) Javier Gutiérrez. The Supreme Court had ordered Uribne Escobar’s arrest in April 2008 after the confessions of a paramilitary commander known as ‘Pitirri’ whom the former senator is said to have met on many occasions to conclude political accords.
13 July, 2010
Rwanda opposition party says top official missing.
Reuters/WNJ
13 July 2010
A senior Rwandan opposition official is missing after his car was found abandoned near the southern city of Butare, his party said on Tuesday.
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, which was unable to gain registration and take part in the election, said its vice-president, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, went missing early on Tuesday and that his car had been found near the Mukula river under very suspicious circumstances.
"There's no blood or anything, so we don't know what actually happened... but it is confirmed that he is missing," the party's president, Frank Habineza, told Reuters by telephone from Butare.
"His passport is inside the house. His national ID, driving permit and house keys were found inside the car, which indicates to us that he has not escaped the country."
Police confirmed Mr. Rwisereka's pick-up truck had been found. "We are still following things to see if he fled or find out what happened," said police spokesman Eric Kayiranga.
Human rights groups have expressed serious concerns in recent weeks about the increasingly oppressive environment ahead of the election.
They say the arrest of two opposition leaders and numerous party members, the suspension of two newspapers, arrest of an opposition journalist and the murder of a government-critical journalist are clear signs of an increasingly militarized and oppressive country.
Incumbent President Paul Kagame is expected to win the upcoming elections by a large margin. He secured over 90 percent of the votes in 2003 in an election widely criticized by elections observers and human rights groups.
13 July 2010
A senior Rwandan opposition official is missing after his car was found abandoned near the southern city of Butare, his party said on Tuesday.
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, which was unable to gain registration and take part in the election, said its vice-president, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, went missing early on Tuesday and that his car had been found near the Mukula river under very suspicious circumstances.
"There's no blood or anything, so we don't know what actually happened... but it is confirmed that he is missing," the party's president, Frank Habineza, told Reuters by telephone from Butare.
"His passport is inside the house. His national ID, driving permit and house keys were found inside the car, which indicates to us that he has not escaped the country."
Police confirmed Mr. Rwisereka's pick-up truck had been found. "We are still following things to see if he fled or find out what happened," said police spokesman Eric Kayiranga.
Human rights groups have expressed serious concerns in recent weeks about the increasingly oppressive environment ahead of the election.
They say the arrest of two opposition leaders and numerous party members, the suspension of two newspapers, arrest of an opposition journalist and the murder of a government-critical journalist are clear signs of an increasingly militarized and oppressive country.
Incumbent President Paul Kagame is expected to win the upcoming elections by a large margin. He secured over 90 percent of the votes in 2003 in an election widely criticized by elections observers and human rights groups.
Rwandan High Media Outlet gives news outlets a week to re-register in bid to stifle opposition papers.
Expression Today
13 July 2010
Rwanda’s already frustrated media houses have been handed a seven-day ultimatum to re-register or risk being declared legally non-existent and be blocked from covering the August 9 presidential elections.
After breaching the media law for nearly a year, the government-funded regulatory body went ahead on Friday July 9 to give another one-week ultimatum to all media organizations operating in Rwanda to re-register.
The Council chairman Arthur Asiimwe had declared that July 9 was the deadline for all media organizations to have met all necessary requirements to be allowed to operate. Asiimwe who represents no media interests in the council was in April sacked from The New Times which he represented on the pro-government body.
On January 27, the Media High Council summoned all media owners to remind them of Articles 95 and 96 that provide for registration of all media organizations that existed in the country prior to the promulgation of the media law.
“Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 95 of this law, media organs in place before the publication of this law in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda shall, within a period not exceeding three (3) months as from publication of this law, have declared to the Media High Council, the requirements referred to under Article 24 of this Law,” Article 96 of the media law says in part.
Article 24 states: “Before launching any media organ, its owner or its publishing director shall file a written application to the Media High Council. If it is a government-owned media organ, it shall be the authority of the institution wishing to launch it or its director appointed by the relevant organ who files the application to the Media High Council.”
Out of 60 officially registered media houses, only 12 have been able to register, over 30 had incomplete files (including the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front’s The New Times daily), while 48 have not bothered with registration, according to the Media Council.
Some of the requirements for the media organization to operate in Rwanda include an application letter, at least a bachelor's degree in journalism or communications for the managing director and chief editor, certificate of good conduct and details of frequency of publication.
Media organizations have complained about interpretation and implementation of some articles of the law. Article 2 defines a journalist as anyone who gathers, writes or reports information through a medium.
Academic qualification for someone for a journalist is any university degree and a certificate in journalism or communication. But professional qualification was to be considered five years after the law came into force.
The trouble is about qualifications for publisher and editors-in-chief who must be professional journalists. Most Rwandan media houses are owned by individuals who never completed secondary and have no professional training.
Many practicing journalists are untrained in the field and do not qualify as professionals according to the law.
While journalists hoped to get professional training wthin five years as required by the law, media owners were not allowed any time.
This partly explains the delayed registration of most media organizations. Those with incomplete files at the Media Council include public media: Radio Rwanda, Rwanda Television, Imvaho Nshya and La Nouvelle Releve.
To explain the Council's continued violation of the law, Executive Secretary Patrice Mulama said the body had been lenient, trying to understand the weight of gathering all the necessary documents.
"Our leniency is causing the continued breach of law by the Council itself, but it has enabled some media organizations to register while majority lack a few requirements," Mulama said.
13 July 2010
Rwanda’s already frustrated media houses have been handed a seven-day ultimatum to re-register or risk being declared legally non-existent and be blocked from covering the August 9 presidential elections.
After breaching the media law for nearly a year, the government-funded regulatory body went ahead on Friday July 9 to give another one-week ultimatum to all media organizations operating in Rwanda to re-register.
The Council chairman Arthur Asiimwe had declared that July 9 was the deadline for all media organizations to have met all necessary requirements to be allowed to operate. Asiimwe who represents no media interests in the council was in April sacked from The New Times which he represented on the pro-government body.
On January 27, the Media High Council summoned all media owners to remind them of Articles 95 and 96 that provide for registration of all media organizations that existed in the country prior to the promulgation of the media law.
“Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 95 of this law, media organs in place before the publication of this law in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda shall, within a period not exceeding three (3) months as from publication of this law, have declared to the Media High Council, the requirements referred to under Article 24 of this Law,” Article 96 of the media law says in part.
Article 24 states: “Before launching any media organ, its owner or its publishing director shall file a written application to the Media High Council. If it is a government-owned media organ, it shall be the authority of the institution wishing to launch it or its director appointed by the relevant organ who files the application to the Media High Council.”
Out of 60 officially registered media houses, only 12 have been able to register, over 30 had incomplete files (including the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front’s The New Times daily), while 48 have not bothered with registration, according to the Media Council.
Some of the requirements for the media organization to operate in Rwanda include an application letter, at least a bachelor's degree in journalism or communications for the managing director and chief editor, certificate of good conduct and details of frequency of publication.
Media organizations have complained about interpretation and implementation of some articles of the law. Article 2 defines a journalist as anyone who gathers, writes or reports information through a medium.
Academic qualification for someone for a journalist is any university degree and a certificate in journalism or communication. But professional qualification was to be considered five years after the law came into force.
The trouble is about qualifications for publisher and editors-in-chief who must be professional journalists. Most Rwandan media houses are owned by individuals who never completed secondary and have no professional training.
Many practicing journalists are untrained in the field and do not qualify as professionals according to the law.
While journalists hoped to get professional training wthin five years as required by the law, media owners were not allowed any time.
This partly explains the delayed registration of most media organizations. Those with incomplete files at the Media Council include public media: Radio Rwanda, Rwanda Television, Imvaho Nshya and La Nouvelle Releve.
To explain the Council's continued violation of the law, Executive Secretary Patrice Mulama said the body had been lenient, trying to understand the weight of gathering all the necessary documents.
"Our leniency is causing the continued breach of law by the Council itself, but it has enabled some media organizations to register while majority lack a few requirements," Mulama said.
Another Journalist Arrested in Rwanda.
Reuters
13 July 2010
Rwandan police have arrested an independent journalist for comparing President Paul Kagame with the Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler, police said, but an official denied her detention was linked to upcoming elections.
Saidati Mukakibibi, an unregistered journalist who works for independent newspaper Umurabyo, was arrested for alleged defamation, inciting public disorder and ethnic "divisionism", police spokesperson Eric Kayiranga said on Monday.
"She wrote articles through the paper comparing President Kagame to Hitler. Behind his picture they put insignia of the Nazis," Kayiranga said. "The articles were causing public disorder in terms of causing divisionism and spreading rumours that can cause insecurity."
Kagame's administration claims free speech must be stifled because of concerns about possible stoking of ethnic enmity.
Police also detained Umurabyo's editor last week. But authorities deny charges by many human rights groups that the government is clamping down on critical opposition and journalists before presidential elections in August for political reasons.
Rwanda's Media High Council (MHC) said Mukakibibi's arrest was not linked to the upcoming ballot, which Kagame is expected to win by a large majority.
"What worries us most is that she has written things that are criminal in nature. Should law enforcement organs keep quiet because of elections?" MHC executive director Patrice Murama told Reuters.
13 July 2010
Rwandan police have arrested an independent journalist for comparing President Paul Kagame with the Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler, police said, but an official denied her detention was linked to upcoming elections.
Saidati Mukakibibi, an unregistered journalist who works for independent newspaper Umurabyo, was arrested for alleged defamation, inciting public disorder and ethnic "divisionism", police spokesperson Eric Kayiranga said on Monday.
"She wrote articles through the paper comparing President Kagame to Hitler. Behind his picture they put insignia of the Nazis," Kayiranga said. "The articles were causing public disorder in terms of causing divisionism and spreading rumours that can cause insecurity."
Kagame's administration claims free speech must be stifled because of concerns about possible stoking of ethnic enmity.
Police also detained Umurabyo's editor last week. But authorities deny charges by many human rights groups that the government is clamping down on critical opposition and journalists before presidential elections in August for political reasons.
Rwanda's Media High Council (MHC) said Mukakibibi's arrest was not linked to the upcoming ballot, which Kagame is expected to win by a large majority.
"What worries us most is that she has written things that are criminal in nature. Should law enforcement organs keep quiet because of elections?" MHC executive director Patrice Murama told Reuters.
URGENT - Green Party Vice President Missing, His Vehicle Found on the Bank of the Mukula River.
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Press Release
Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, the First Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, has gone missing. His car (a Toyota Pick-Up) was found on the banks of the Mukula River in Butare (Huye-Southern Province) near the Burundi border according to family sources.
We understand that officers of National police have arrived at the scene and we call for quick results from their investigation.
We also call upon the Rwandan Government to use all means possible to aid the investigation and quickly inform us of the whereabouts of our Vice President.
We will issue updates on new developments as they come.
Issued in Kigali,
13th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA,
Founding President,
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Press Release
Mr. Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA, the First Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, has gone missing. His car (a Toyota Pick-Up) was found on the banks of the Mukula River in Butare (Huye-Southern Province) near the Burundi border according to family sources.
We understand that officers of National police have arrived at the scene and we call for quick results from their investigation.
We also call upon the Rwandan Government to use all means possible to aid the investigation and quickly inform us of the whereabouts of our Vice President.
We will issue updates on new developments as they come.
Issued in Kigali,
13th July 2010
Frank HABINEZA,
Founding President,
Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List.
By Andy Worthington
July 2010
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/12/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-updated-for-summer-2010/
How to use the list
In the categories below, ISN refers to the Internment Serial Number by which the prisoners are (or were) known and identified in Guantánamo, followed by the prisoners’ status (released, cleared for release, still held, or, in five cases, deceased), their names (with just some of the many different permutations noted, in some cases), their nationality, and links or references to chapters in The Guantánamo Files. Links on the release dates feed into articles published when the prisoners were released.
Of the prisoners cleared for release, some, as indicated, were cleared by military review boards under the Bush administration, others (37 at the time of writing) had been cleared by judges in US courts, who had granted their habeas corpus petitions, and 97 had been cleared by the Obama administration’s interagency Task Force, which reviewed their cases last year. The Task Force has not announced the names of the prisoners it has cleared (although many are the same as those cleared under Bush, and the figures also include those cleared by the courts). As a result, several dozen prisoners in these lists have also been cleared, but I am unable to provide details.
To establish more context, the chapters in the book, and the online chapters, deal with the following places in which the prisoners were seized (or, in other cases, their rendition and torture in secret prisons):
Captured in Afghanistan: Chapters 2, 3, 9, 10, 14, 17, Website Extras 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12
Captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan: Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, Website
Extras 3, 4, 5, 6
Captured in Pakistan: Chapters 12, 13, Website Extras 9, 10
Subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and/or detention in secret prisons: Chapters 16, 20, Website Extras 11
In addition, Chapter 8 refers to imprisonment at the US prison at Kandahar airport, Chapter 11 deals with the early months of Guantánamo’s existence, Chapter 14 also deals with imprisonment in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Chapter 15 refers to torture and abuse in Guantánamo, Chapter 18 refers to legal challenges, and Chapter 19 refers to hunger strikes, suicide attempts and medical malpractice.
The 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo (Part 1)
ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References
Captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
001 NO ISN (John Walker Lindh, not sent to Guantánamo because he is a US citizen, received 20-year sentence in 2002; see Chapters 2, 3, 8, 18, also see Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo)
002 RELEASED MAY 07 Hicks, David (Australia) Chapters 9, 15, 18, 19, 20, MILITARY COMMISSION (nine-month sentence after plea bargain), also see The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials
003 RELEASED DEC 07 Ruhani, Gholam (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
004 Wasiq, Abdul-Haq (Afghanistan) Chapter 10, discussed in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One)
005 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Matrafi, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16
006 Noori, Mullah Norullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
007 Fazil, Mullah Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
008 RELEASED DEC 07 Rasoul, Abdullah Ghulam (Afghanistan) Chapter 10, also see Who are ‘the worst of the worst’? (in the Guardian)
009 RELEASED APR 02 Hamdi, Yaser (USA-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 18, transferred to US, held as an enemy combatant until Oct 04, see Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers in Case of US “Enemy Combatant” Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri
010 RELEASED SEP 04 Sattar, Abdul (Pakistan) Chapter 9
011 RELEASED SEP 04 Safeezi, Abdul Sattar (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
012 RELEASED MAY 03 Usman, Shabidzada (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
013 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Qahtani, Fahed Mohamed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2 (footnote)
014 RELEASED SEP 04 Iqbal, Zafar (Pakistan) No information
015 RELEASED OCT 06 Ul Shah, Zia (Pakistan) Chapter 9
016 RELEASED JUL 03 Al Deen, Jamal Muhammad (Pakistan) No information
017 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Muhammed Ijaz (Pakistan) Chapter 9
018 RELEASED SEP 04 Sayed, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
019 RELEASED MAY 03 Alikhel, Shah Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapters 9, 19, also see Website Extras 7
020 RELEASED NOV 03 Ishaq, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
021 RELEASED JUL 03 Hudin, Salah (Pakistan) No information
022 RELEASED SEP 09 (in Ireland) Hamiduva, Shakhrukh (Uzbekistan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees
023 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Isa (Pakistan) Chapter 9
024 RELEASED JAN 05 Abbasi, Feroz (UK) Chapter 10
025 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Joudi, Majeed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, Website Extras 8
Mostly captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (Dec 01)
026 CLEARED (under Bush) Ghazi, Fahed (Yemen) Chapter 5
027 WON HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010) Uthman, Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 5, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
028 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09) Al Alawi, Muaz (Moath Al Alwi) (Yemen) Website Extras 3, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies
029 Al Ansi, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 3
030 Al Hikimi, Ahmed (Yemen) Website Extras 3
031 Al Mujahid, Mahmoud (Yemen) Chapter 5
032 RELEASED DEC 09 Ahmed, Faruq Ali (Farouq Ali Ahmed, Farouq Saif) (Yemen) Chapter 5, also see Guantánamo Whistleblowers: Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is not the first insider to condemn the kangaroo courts
033 WON HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09) Al Adahi, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 12, also see No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, What Does It Take To Get Out Of Obama’s Guantánamo?
034 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Yafi, Abdullah (Yemen) Website Extras 3
035 Qader Idris, Idris (Yemen) Website Extras 3
036 Idris, Ibrahim (Sudan) Chapter 5
037 Al Rahabi, Abdul Malik (Yemen) Chapters 5, 8
038 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Yazidi, Ridah (Tunisia) Chapter 5
039 Al Bahlul, Ali Hamza (Yemen) Chapters 5, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION (life sentence, Nov 08), also see Doing the Right Thing, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, An Empty Trial at Guantánamo, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions
040 Al Mudafari, Abdel Qadir (Yemen) Website Extras 3
041 Ahmad, Majid (Yemen) Website Extras 3
042 Shalabi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, Website Extras 3
043 Moqbel, Samir (Yemen) Chapter 5
044 Ghanim, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapters 5, 15, 19
045 Al Rezehi, Ali Ahmad (Yemen) Website Extras 3
046 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Abdallah, Sayf Bin (Saleh Sassi) (Tunisia) Website Extras 3, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo
047 RELEASED JUL 03 Ullah, Asad (Pakistan) Website Extras 3
048 RELEASED JUL 08 Alhamiri, Abdullah (UAE) Website Extras 3
049 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Spain), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Aasmi, Assem Matruq (Walid Hijazi) (Palestine) Website Extras 9, Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in Spain?, Abandoned in Spain: The Palestinian Freed from Guantánamo
050 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Ghamdi, Zayd Al Husayn (Al Ghamidi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
051 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Barayan, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
052 RELEASED AUG 07 Al Murbati, Isa (Bahrain) Chapters 8, 12, 15, also see Isolation in Guantánamo
053 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Mahayawi, Saud Dakhil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
054 Al Qosi, Ibrahim (Sudan) Chapters 5, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION, also see The US military’s shameless propaganda over Guantánamo’s 9/11 trials, Torture, Preventive Detention and the Terror Trials At Guantánamo, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions, Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantánamo Trial (accepted plea bargain, July 2010 – sentence to follow in August)
055 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Zayla, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
056 RELEASED AUG 03 Tabarak, Abdullah (Morocco) Chapter 5, mentioned in Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession
057 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Harbi, Salim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
058 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Wahab, Musa (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
059 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Uwaydha, Sultan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
060 RELEASED NOV 05 Haji, Adel Kamel (Bahrain) Chapters 5, 7, 8
061 RELEASED AUG 06 Kurnaz, Murat (Germany-Turkey) Chapter 12, also see Five Years in Guantánamo, Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
062 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Juhani, Mohammed (Al Jihani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
063 Al Qahtani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 5, 15, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
064 RELEASED MAY 06 Sebaii, Abdel Hadi (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
065 RELEASED SEP 06 Amin, Omar Rajab (Kuwait) Chapter 5
066 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Sulami, Yasim (Al Silami) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 5, 15
067 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Sharekh, Abdulrazzaq (Al Sharikh, Al Tamini) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
068 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Bawardi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
Captured in Afghanistan and held in Qala-i-Janghi/Sheberghan (Nov 01)
069 RELEASED JUN 07 Ismail, Sadeq (Sadeq Mohammed Said) (Yemen) Website Extras 9
070 RELEASED JUL 08 Houari, Abdul Raham (Algeria) Website Extras 8
071 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shedoky, Mishal (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
072 RELEASED JUL 05 Ikassrien, Lahcen (Spain) Website Extras 1
073 RELEASED JUN 06 Nur, Yusif Khalil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
074 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Rashid, Mishal Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
075 RELEASED FEB 06 Lahcini, Najib (Morocco) Website Extras 1
076 RELEASED FEB 07 Sharipov, Rukniddin (Tajikistan) Website Extras 1, Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks
077 RELEASED FEB 07 Fazrollah, Mehrabanb (Tajikistan) Website Extras 1
078 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 09 Al Hanashi, Mohammad (Muhammad Salih) (Yemen) Chapter 20, also see Website Extras 1, As a sixth “high-value detainee” is charged at Guantánamo, disturbing evidence surfaces, Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court, Death At Guantánamo Hovers Over Obama’s Middle East Visit, Binyam Mohamed: Was Muhammad Salih’s Death In Guantánamo Suicide?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
079 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Harazi, Fahed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
080 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shabrani, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
081 RELEASED MAY 08 Ali, Walid Mohammed (Sudan) Chapter 2
082 RELEASED FEB 04 Kudayev, Rasul (Russia) Chapters 2, 18, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
083 RELEASED JUL 04 Nabied, Yusef (Tajikistan) No information
084 RELEASED DEC 06 Batayev, Ilkham (Kazakhstan) Chapter 2, mentioned in Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison
085 RELEASED NOV 03 Bin Naseer, Munir (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
086 RELEASED MAR 04 Rasul, Shafiq (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
087 RELEASED MAR 04 Iqbal, Asif (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
088 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow soon) Awad, Adham Ali (Yemen) Website Extras 8, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
089 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia), CLEARED (under Obama) Tsiradzho, Poolad (Azerbaijan) Website Extras 1, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
090 RELEASED FEB 07 Mokit, Wahldof Abdul (Muqit Vohidov) (Tajikistan) Chapter 9 (footnote), also see Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks
091 Al Saleh, Abdul (Yemen) Website Extras 1
092 RELEASED MAR 04 Shah, Said Mohammed Alim (allegedly the alias of Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud) (Afghanistan) If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released
093 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Zahrani, Yasser Talal (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 18, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
094 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Sehli, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
095 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Ghamdi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
096 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Utaybi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
097 RELEASED JUL 03 Khan, Tariq Aziz (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
098 RELEASED SEP 04 Saeed, Hafiz Ehsan (Pakistan) Chapter 9
099 RELEASED JUL 03 Razaq, Abdul (Pakistan) Chapter 8
100 RELEASED SEP 04 Ashraf, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
101 RELEASED SEP 04 Irfan, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
102 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mohammed, Nag (China) Website Extras 1, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News and Good News for the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
103 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Switzerland), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mahmud, Arkin (China) Website Extras 1, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo
104 RELEASED MAR 04 Achezkai, Mohammed Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 15
105 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Saigh, Adnan (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
106 RELEASED JUL 03 Raz, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
107 RELEASED OCT 02 Barakzai, Jan Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 9, mentioned in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One)
108 RELEASED DEC 07 Aliza, Abdul Rauf (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
109 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Rabiesh, Yusef (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 8
110 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmed, Rhuhel (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
111 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Tayeea, Ali (Iraq) Chapter 2, A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks
112 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Oshan, Abdul Aziz (Al Khaldi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 8, also see Guantánamo’s Library: Adding Insult to Injury
113 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmed, Sarfaraz (Pakistan) No information
114 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Shehri, Yousef (Al Shihri) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 9, 19, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
115 Naser, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 1
116 RELEASED MAR 04 Abulwance, Yamatolah (Afghanistan) No information
117 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2010) Al Warafi, Mukhtar (Yemen) Chapter 2, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, With Regrets, Judge Allows Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo of a Medic
118 RELEASED DEC 06 Kahm, Abdul Rahman Juma (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
119 RELEASED MAR 03 Shah, Suleiman (Afghanistan) Chapter 3
120 RELEASED JUL 05 Khan, Rabel (Habib Rasool) (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
121 RELEASED DEC 06 Mohammed, Salman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
122 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Atabi, Bijad (Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
123 RELEASED FEB 06 Hassan, Muhammad Hussein Ali (Morocco) Website Extras 1
124 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Janan Taus (Afghanistan) No information
125 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Zahrani, Fawaz (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
126 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Shihri, Salim (Salam Abdullah Said) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
127 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shili, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
128 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09), LOST APPEAL (Jan 2010) Al Bihani, Ghaleb (Yemen) Website Extras 1, How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners
129 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Marwai, Toufig (Yemen) Website Extras 1
130 RELEASED NOV 07 Sultan, Faha (Fahd al-Osaimi al-Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
131 Ben Kend, Salem (Yemen) Website Extras 1
132 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Shehri, Abdul Salam (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
133 RELEASED JUL 04 Ouzar, Mohammed (Morocco) No information
Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
134 RELEASED JUL 03 Safollah, Ghaser Zaban (Pakistan) No information
135 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Ejaz Ahmad (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
136 RELEASED NOV 03 Mohammad, Tarik (Pakistan) No information
137 RELEASED SEP 04 Tariq, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
138 RELEASED SEP 04 Ayubi, Salahuddin (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
139 RELEASED NOV 03 Mansoor, Hafiz Liaqat (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
140 RELEASED SEP 04 Ali, Said Saim (Pakistan) No information
141 RELEASED SEP 04 Ayub, Haseeb (Pakistan) No information
142 RELEASED SEP 04 Fazaldad (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
143 RELEASED OCT 02 Saghir, Mohammad (Pakistan) Chapters 3, 8, 11
144 RELEASED SEP 04 Ilyas, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
145 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Hamood Ullah (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
146 RELEASED JUL 03 Khan, Muhammed Kashif (Pakistan) No information
147 RELEASED SEP 04 Raza, Mohammed Arshad (Pakistan) No information
Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 01)
148 RELEASED DEC 09 (extradited to Italian custody) Bin Hamida, Adil Mabrouk (Adel Ben Mabrouk Boughanmi) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
149 RELEASED NOV 08 Hamdan, Salim (Yemen) Chapters 6, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION (five-month sentence, Aug 08), also see Military judge dashes hopes that Guantánamo detainees have rights as Prisoners of War, Guantánamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?, Guantánamo’s Shambolic Trials, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Guantánamo trial delayed, Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo Trial, A critical overview of Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo trial and the dubious verdict, The End of Guantánamo, Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions
150 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Boujaadia, Said (Morocco) Chapter 7, also see Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
151 RELEASED DEC 06 Hashem, Mubarak (Bangladesh) Website Extras 9
152 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Khalaqi, Asim (Yemen) Chapter 6
153 Suleiman, Fayiz (Yemen) Website Extras 5
154 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Awfi, Mazin (Al Oufi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
155 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Hubayshi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 7, also see The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubyadah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts
156 Latif, Adnan Farhan Abdul (Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd) (Yemen) Website Extras 5
157 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Malki, Said (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
158 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Harbi, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
159 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Noaimi, Abdullah (Bahrain) Chapters 7, 8, 19
160 RELEASED OCT 06 Benmoujan, Mohammed (Morocco) Chapter 7
161 RELEASED JUL 04 Benchellali, Mourad (France) Chapters 7, 8
162 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Tays, Ali (Yemen) Chapter 6
163 Al Qadasi, Khalid (Yemen) Website Extras 5
164 RELEASED JUL 04 Kanouni, Imad (France) Chapter 7
165 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Busayss, Said (Yemen) Chapter 6
166 RELEASED JUL 04 Ghezali, Mehdi (Sweden) Chapters 7, 15
167 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Raimi, Ali Yahya (Yemen) Website Extras 5
168 CLEARED (under Bush) Hakimi, Adel (Hakeemy) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantanamo, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians
169 RELEASED NOV 03 Al Amrani, Ayman (Jordan) No information
170 Masud, Sharaf (Yemen) Website Extras 5
171 Alahdal, Abu Bakr (Yemen) Website Extras 5
172 RELEASED SEP 07 Mohammed, Ali Mohammed Nasir (Yemen) Website Extras 5
173 RELEASED MAR 05 Khalid, Redouane (France) Chapter 7
174 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Dec 08) Sliti, Hisham (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians
175 RELEASED JAN 09 Said, Hassan Mujamma Rabai (Algeria) Website Extras 6
176 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Qurayshi, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
177 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Jutayli, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
178 Baada, Tareq (Yemen) Chapter 20, Website Extras 5
179 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Juaid, Abdul Rahman (Al Juad) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
180 NO ISN (possibly Ibn Al Shaykh Al Libi, rendered for torture in Egypt, who died in a Libyan prison in May 2009; see Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two), Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney’s Torture and Lies, Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record; also see 212, 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
181 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Shammari, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
182 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Jabri, Bandar (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
183 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Jayfi, Issam (Yemen) Chapter 6
184 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Omairah, Othman (Yemen) Website Extras 5
185 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Asiri, Turki (Al Jabali Asseri) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
186 RELEASED FEB 07 Balkhair, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
187 RELEASED NOV 07 Maqram, Murtadha (Makram) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, Website Extras 4
188 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Fayfi, Jabir (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
189 Gherebi, Salem (Libya) Website Extras 6
190 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Obama) Al Mishad, Sharif (Sherif El Meshad, El Mashad) (Egypt) Website Extras 6, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
191 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Khathami, Saleh (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
192 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Rubeish, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6, also see A Poem from Guantánamo
193 RELEASED DEC 06 Moqbill, Mohsin (Yemen) Chapter 6
194 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Futuri, Mohammed (Libya) Chapter 7 (footnote)
195 Al Shumrani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
196 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Amri, Musa (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
197 Chekhouri, Younis (Shokhuri, Chekkouri) (Morocco) Chapters 7, 15, also discussed in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
198 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Asadi, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
199 DIED IN GUANTANAMO MAY 07 Al Amri, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6, also see Suicide at Guantánamo: a response to the US military’s allegations that Abdul Rahman al-Amri was a member of al-Qaeda, The Forgotten Anniversary of a Guantánamo Suicide, Forgotten: The Second Anniversary Of A Guantánamo Suicide, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, The Third Anniversary of a Death in Guantánamo
200 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qahtani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
201 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Tourson, Ahmad (Ahmad Abdulahad) (China) Chapter 2, also see From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
202 Bin Atef, Mahmoud (Yemen) Website Extras 1
203 RELEASED FEB 04 Gumarov, Ravil (Russia) Chapters 2, 18
204 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Zahrani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
205 RELEASED JAN 05 Al Mutairi, Nasser (Kuwait) Chapter 2
206 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Yamani, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
207 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Harbi, Mishal (Alhabiri) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 19, also see Saudi who suffered brain damage in Guantánamo gets married in Medina
208 RELEASED AUG 05 Salehove, Maroof (Tajikistan) Website Extras 7
209 RELEASED FEB 04 Khazhiyev, Shamil (Russia) Chapter 2
210 RELEASED JUL 03 Iqbal, Faik (Pakistan) No information
211 RELEASED FEB 04 Ogidov, Ruslan (Russia) Chapter 2
212 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, above, and 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 01)
213 RELEASED OCT 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 09) Al Mutairi, Khalid (Kuwait) Chapter 7, also see Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Charity Worker, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
214 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Qurashi, Mohammed (Al Kurash, Al Kurashi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
215 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Sharif, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
216 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Kabi, Jamil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
217 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Shammeri, Abdul Aziz (Kuwait) Chapter 7
218 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Fouzan, Fahd (Al Fawzan) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
219 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Razak, Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (and also see 201)
220 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Ajmi, Abdullah (Kuwait) Chapter 12, also see Identification of ex-Guantánamo suicide bomber unleashes Pentagon propaganda
221 RELEASED JUN 07 Salih, Ali Mohsen (Yemen) Website Extras 5
222 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Kunduzi, Umar (Afghanistan-Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
223 Sulayman, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Chapter 6
224 Muhammad, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 5
225 RELEASED JUN 07 Al Shulan, Hani (Yemen) Website Extras 5
226 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Nurr, Anwar (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
227 RELEASED OCT 06 Al Balushi, Salah (Bahrain) Chapter 7
228 RELEASED SEP 06 Al Kandari, Abdullah Kamel (Kuwait) Chapter 7
229 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Daihani, Mohammed Fenaitel (Kuwait) Chapter 7
230 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Jad’an, Humud (Al Jadani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
231 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Sharekh, Abdulhadi (Al Sharakh) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
232 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Al Odah, Fawzi (Al Awda) (Kuwait) Chapters 7, 8, also see Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: who are Fawzi al-Odah and Lakhdar Boumediene?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, Obama Drops Plan For New “Indefinite Detention” Policy At Guantánamo, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
233 Salih, Abdul (Yemen) Website Extras 5
234 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Zahrani, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
235 Jarabh, Saeed (Yemen) Chapter 19
236 RELEASED MAR 05 Ben Mustafa, Khaled (France) Chapters 7, 8, 15
237 RELEASED FEB 06 Laalami, Mohammed (Morocco) Website Extras 2
238 CLEARED (under Bush) Hadjarab, Nabil (Algeria-France) Website Extras 2, Guantánamo’s refugees
239 CLEARED (under Bush) Aamer, Shaker (UK-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 12, 19, also see Shaker Aamer, a South London Man in Guantánamo: The Children Speak, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo’s ridiculous underwear saga, Clive Stafford Smith at Guantánamo: how the immoral became mundane, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, Forgotten in Guantánamo: British resident Shaker Aamer, UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Court Orders Release Of Torture Evidence In The Case Of Shaker Aamer, The Last British Resident In Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer: UK Government Drops Opposition To Release Of Torture Evidence, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Daughter Delivers Letter to Gordon Brown (Video), Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Shaker Aamer’s Wife Speaks: “Since he has been away there is no colour in life”, Torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Lawyers Speak, As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time for Shaker Aamer to Come Home from Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, 98 MPs Who Supported Human Rights While Countering Terrorism, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, New letter to William Hague, asking him to secure the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, New letter to MPs asking them to oppose the use of secret evidence in UK courts, and to support the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, Campaigners Ask David Cameron to Secure Return to UK of Shaker Aamer, the Last British Resident in Guantánamo, An open letter to David Cameron demanding the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK
240 Al Shabli, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
241 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180 and 212, above, and 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
242 Qasim, Khaled (Yemen) Website Extras 2
243 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Utaybi, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
244 Nassir, Abdul Latif (Morocco) Chapter 4, also mentioned in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
245 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Sulami, Haji Hajaj (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
246 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Khalifa, Sheikh Salman (Bahrain) Chapter 7
247 RELEASED SEP 04 Fiyatullah, Kay (Pakistan) No information
248 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Oshan, Saleh (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
249 Al Hamiri, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
250 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Anvar, Hassan (Anwar Hassan) (China) Website Extras 6, The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (also see 201)
251 CLEARED (under Bush) Bin Salem, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
252 RELEASED MAY 2010 (in Spain), WON HABEAS PETITION (Mar 09) Basardah, Yasim (Yemen) Chapter 6, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame
253 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Ansari, Faris Muslim (Afghanistan-Saudi) Chapter 6, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
254 Khenaina, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
255 WON HABEAS PETITION (Dec 09) Hatim, Said (Yemen) Website Extras 5, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit, Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantánamo, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
256 RELEASED DEC 09 Al Radai, Riyad (Al Haj, Al Haf) (Yemen) Website Extras 5
257 CLEARED (under Obama) Abdulayev, Omar (Tajikistan) Website Extras 9, Obama’s Failure To Deliver Justice To The Last Tajik In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
258 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Nukhaylan, Nayif (Nayif Ibrahim) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
259 CLEARED (under Bush) Hintif, Fadil (Yemen) Website Extras 5
260 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Adil, Ahmed (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania
261 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Dossari, Juma (Bahrain-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 19
262 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Harbi, Abdullah Al Wafi (Al Wafti) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
263 Sultan, Ashraf (Libya) Chapter 7 (footnote)
264 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Baddah, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
265 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Harbi, Tariq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
266 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Ghanimi, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
267 RELEASED FEB 04 Ahmed, Hamed Abderrahman (Spain) Chapters 7, 11
268 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Hataybi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
269 RELEASED JUN 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09) El Gharani, Mohammed (Chad-Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12, also see Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child: the sad story of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s ridiculous underwear saga, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child, Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner, Mohammed El-Gharani, Is Imprisoned In Chad, Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, speaks to al-Jazeera, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Stranded In Chad: Mohammed El-Gharani, Once Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?
270 RELEASED APR 05 Zemmori, Mosa Zi (Belgium) Chapter 7 (footnote)
271 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Nasir, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
272 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Bahuth, Ziyad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
273 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Nasir, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
274 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Samiri, Bader (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
275 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abbas, Yusef (Abdusabar) (China) Chapter 7, also see A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (and also see 201)
276 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Basit, Akhdar Qasem (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania
277 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Switzerland), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mahnut, Bahtiyar (China) Website Extras 6, Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men, Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo (also see 201)
278 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mamut, Abdul Helil (Khalil Manut, Abdul Nasser, Abdulnassir) (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
279 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Ayub, Haji Mohammed (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
280 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Khalik, Saidullah (Khalid) (China) Website Extras 6, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
281 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Ghappar, Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see A Chinese Muslim’s desperate plea from Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (and also see 201)
282 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulghupur, Hajiakbar (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
283 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Qassim, Abu Bakker (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, A Letter To Barack Obama From A Guantánamo Uighur, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
284 RELEASED AUG 08 Al Qadir, Mohammed (Algeria) Chapter 7
285 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulquadirakhun, Abdullah (Abdulla Abdulqadir, Jalal Jalaladin) (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (and also see 201)
286 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Jahdali, Ziad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
287 RELEASED SEP 05 El Leithi, Sami (Egypt) Chapters 7, 15
288 CLEARED (under Bush) Saib, Motai (Algeria) Chapter 7
289 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdurehim, Dawut (China) Chapter 7, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (also see 201)
290 CLEARED (under Bush) Belbacha, Ahmed (UK-Algeria) Chapter 7, also see Return to torture: act now for Ahmed Belbacha, a British resident in Guantánamo, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha: UK government explains why it will not act to prevent his return to torture, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, Repatriation as Russian Roulette, Treachery at Guantánamo, Guantánamo’s refugees, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Bringing Guantánamo To New York, Urgent appeal for the UK to offer refuge to Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian in Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, New letter to William Hague, asking him to secure the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer
291 RELEASED NOV 03 Celik Gogus, Yuksel (Turkey) Chapter 18
292 RELEASED AUG 08 Feghoul, Abdulli (Algeria) Chapter 7
293 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania), GRANTED ASYLUM IN SWEDEN (Feb 09) Hakim, Adel Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, Former Guantánamo detainee seeks asylum in Sweden, Adel Abdul Hakim, the asylum seeker from Guantánamo: a transcript of Sabin Willett’s recent speech in Stockholm, Support for ex-Guantánamo detainee’s Swedish asylum claim, Former Guantánamo prisoner denied asylum in Sweden, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs
294 RELEASED JUL 04 Mazouz, Muhammed (Morocco) Chapter 12
295 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulahat, Emam (Salahidin Abdulahad, Abdul Semet) (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
296 RELEASED APR 05 Sen, Mesut (Belgium) Chapter 7
297 RELEASED NOV 03 Sen, Ibrahim Shafir (Turkey) Website Extras 6
298 RELEASED APR 05 Uyar, Salih (Turkey) Website Extras 6
299 RELEASED SEP 04 Raza, Abid (Pakistan) Chapter 9
300 RELEASED SEP 04 Sultan, Zahid (Pakistan) No information
301 RELEASED SEP 04 Hafez, Khalil Rahman (Pakistan) Chapter 9 (footnote), also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
302 RELEASED SEP 04 Ijaz, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
303 RELEASED JUL 03 Ahmed, Ali (Pakistan) No information
304 RELEASED JUL 03 Ansar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
305 RELEASED SEP 04 Mohammed, Hanif (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
306 RELEASED SEP 05 Zaeef, Mullah Abdul Salam (Afghanistan) Chapters 12, 19
307 Al Tumani, Abdul Nasir (Khantumani) (Syria) Chapter 7
308 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Nusayri, Adil Uqla Hassan (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
309 Abdal Sattar, Muieen (UAE) Website Extras 6
310 Ameziane, Djamel (Algeria) Chapter 7
311 WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 09) Bin Mohammed, Farhi Said (Farhi Saeed) (Algeria) Chapter 7, also see Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere), How Binyam Mohammed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US Court, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
312 RELEASED AUG 09 (in Portugal) Al Tumani, Mohammed (Khantumani) (Syria) Chapters 7, 8, 15, also see Guantánamo Whistleblowers: Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is not the first insider to condemn the kangaroo courts
313 RELEASED MAR 03 Mirmuhammed, Sherghulab (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
314 RELEASED MAR 03 Khan, Ezat (Afghanistan) No information
315 RELEASED MAR 03 Must, Yarass Ali (Afghanistan) No information
316 RELEASED JUL 03 Ghuladkhan (Afghanistan) No information
317 RELEASED AUG 09 (in Portugal) Dokhan, Moammar Badawi (Syria) Website Extras 6
318 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Taibi, Rami (Al Juaid) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
319 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Subaie, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
320 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Parhat, Huzaifa (Ablikim Turahun) (China) Website Extras 6, Six Years Late, Court Throws Out Guantánamo Case, Guantánamo as Alice in Wonderland, An interview with Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham (Part Two), Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
321 Kuman, Ahmed Yaslam Said (Yemen) Website Extras 2
322 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Barakat, Khalid (Al Sharif) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
323 RELEASED FEB 04 Abderrahmane, Slimane Hadj (Denmark) Chapters 7, 8
324 Al Sabri, Mashur (Yemen) Website Extras 5
325 RELEASED JUL 04 Sassi, Nizar (France) Chapter 7
326 Ajam, Ahmed (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
327 Shaaban, Ali Hussein (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
328 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mohamed, Ahmed (China) Website Extras 6, The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
329 Al Hamawe, Abu Omar (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
330 RELEASED MAY 2010 (in Bulgaria) Mouhammed, Maasoum (Syria) Chapter 7
331 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Shurafa, Ayman (Saudi Arabia-Palestine) Chapter 6, mentioned in Guantanamo’s refugees
332 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Tayabi, Abdullah (Bandar Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
333 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Harbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
334 RELEASED JUL 08 Al Marri, Jarallah (Qatar) Chapter 18 (footnote), also see Ex-Guantánamo prisoner refused entry into UK, held in deportation centre, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, and articles telling the story of Jarallah’s brother Ali: Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers in Case of US “Enemy Combatant” Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri, Return To The Law: Obama Orders Guantánamo Closure, Torture Ban and Review of US “Enemy Combatant” Case, Ending The Cruel Isolation Of Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant”, Why The US Under Obama Is Still A Dictatorship, Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged As US “Enemy Combatant” Pleads Guilty, Ali al-Marri’s Statement In Court, October 30, 2009, Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant,” Receives Eight-Year Sentence
335 RELEASED JUN 09 Mohammed, Kahlid Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
336 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Frih, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
337 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Bidna, Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
338 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Omar, Wasim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
339 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Morghi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
340 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Dubaikey, Bessam (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
341 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Farha, Said Ali (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
342 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Qurbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
343 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Rushaydan, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
344 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Qa’id, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
345 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Haj, Sami (Sudan) Chapters 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, also see Sami al-Haj: the banned torture pictures of a journalist in Guantánamo, Clive Stafford Smith at Guantánamo: how the immoral became mundane, A letter from Guantánamo, Sami al-Haj speaks, appeals for fellow prisoners in Guantánamo, Sami al-Haj: “Torture is Terrorism”, The journey from Guantánamo: one final indignity for Sami al-Haj, An interview with Sami al-Haj, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London
346 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Shaibani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
Afghans captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
347 RELEASED JUL 03 Mohammadullah (Afghanistan) No information
348 RELEASED MAR 04 Zumarikourt, Aziz Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
349 RELEASED OCT 02 Sadiq, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10 (he was 88 years old), mentioned in The Guantánamo Files: AlterNet interviews Andy Worthington
350 RELEASED MAR 03 Ehsanullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 8
351 RELEASED MAR 04 Ghofoor, Abdullah (Afghanistan) No information
352 RELEASED NOV 03 Sayed, Abdul Hadi (Afghanistan) No information
353 RELEASED JUL 03 Waheed, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
354 RELEASED NOV 03 Ghani, Nabu Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
355 RELEASED MAR 03 Malang, Nassir (Afghanistan) No information
356 RELEASED SEP 02 Razaq, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapters 8, 14 (schizophrenic), mentioned in The Guantánamo Files: AlterNet interviews Andy Worthington
357 RELEASED APR 05 Rahman, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 3
358 RELEASED MAR 03 Sargidene, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
359 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
360 RELEASED MAR 03 Edmondada, Abdullah (Afghanistan) No information
361 RELEASED MAR 03 Abdul Rahman, Murtazah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
362 RELEASED MAR 03 Torjan, Shaibjan (Afghanistan) No information
363 RELEASED MAR 03 Ghafoor, Shai Jahn (Afghanistan) No information
364 RELEASED MAY 03 Kakar, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
365 RELEASED JUL 03 Layar, Sabit (Afghanistan) No information
366 RELEASED MAR 04 Khan, Hazrat Sangin (Afghanistan) No information
367 RELEASED MAY 03 Yaqub, Mohammed Yusif (allegedly the alias of Taliban leader Mullah Shahzada) (Afghanistan) Chapter 9, also see If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01) and held in Sheberghan until early 02
368 RELEASED SEP 07 Hawsawi, Amran (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
369 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia) CLEARED (under Bush) El Gazzar, Adel Fattough Ali (Egypt) Chapters 12, 19, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
370 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Hizani, Abd (Abdullah Al Zahrani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
371 RELEASED JUL 04 Yadel, Brahim (France) Chapter 7
372 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Shihri, Sa’id (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 7
373-432 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
433 RELEASED JUN 09 Sadkhan, Jawad (Iraq) Chapter 15, mentioned in Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released From Guantánamo
434 Al Shamyri, Mustafa (Yemen) Website Extras 1
435 RELEASED JAN 09 Said, Hassan Abdul (Iraq) Website Extras 8
436 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Usaymi, Nayif (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
437 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Nasir, Faizal (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
438 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Khalif, Hani (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7, Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
439 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Ghatani, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
440 Bawazir, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 9
441 Al Zahri, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 7, Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
442 RELEASED JUL 03 Maula, Abdul (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
443 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Juma (Afghanistan) No information
444 RELEASED MAY 03 Wali, Jihan (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
445-451 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
452 RELEASED SEP 09 (in Ireland) Jabbarov, Oybek (Abu Bakir Jamaludinovich) (Uzbekistan) Chapter 10, also see Guantánamo’s refugees, At Christmas, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Is Reunited With His Family
453 RELEASED MAR 04 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
454 RELEASED MAR 04 Adam, Mohammed Sadiq (Uzbekistan) No information, probably Afghan Uzbek
455 PROBABLY RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Switzerland) CLEARED (under Bush) Hamidullah, Ali Sher (Uzbekistan) Website Extras 8
456 RELEASED MAR 04 Hamdullah (Afghanistan) No information
457 RELEASED APR 05 Gul, Mohammad (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
458 RELEASED OCT 06 Sarajuddin, Abib (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
459 RELEASED APR 05 Zaman, Gul (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
460 RELEASED FEB 06 Zaman, Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
461 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qyati, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 8
462-488 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
489 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Belgium), WON HABEAS PETITION (Jun 09) Al Ginco, Abdul Rahim (Janko) (Syria) Chapters 10, 19, mentioned in Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released From Guantánamo, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now!, Why Did It Take So Long To Order The Release From Guantánamo Of An Al-Qaeda Torture Victim?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, “Respect My Anonymity,” Says Guantánamo Prisoner Released in Belgium
490 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Harith, Jamal (UK) Chapter 10
491 RELEASED JUN 06 Turkistani, Saddiq Ahmed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 10
492 RELEASED FEB 04 Vakhitov, Aryat (Russia) Chapters 8, 10, 18
493 RELEASED SEP 07 Bukhari, Abdul Hakim (Bukhary) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 10
494 RELEASED AUG 06 Noorallah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
495 RELEASED SEP 04 Rafiq, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
496 RELEASED NOV 07 Rahman, Fizaulla (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
Mostly captured in Jalalabad or in the vicinity of Tora Bora (Dec 01)
497 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Subii, Nasir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
498 Haidel, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 8, Website Extras 2
499 RELEASED JUL 04 Chekhouri, Redouane (Morocco) No information
500 RELEASED MAR 04 Turkash, Emdash Abdullah (Turkmenistan) No information
501 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Otaibi, Nawaf (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
502 CLEARED (under Bush) Ourgy, Abdul (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
503 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Zuba, Saleh (Yemen) Chapter 4
504 RELEASED SEP 04 Amin, Aminulla (Pakistan) No information
505 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Muri, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
506 Al Dhuby, Khalid (Yemen) Website Extras 2
507 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Anazi, Sultan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
508 Al Rabie, Salman (Yemen) Chapter 4 (footnote)
509 Khusruf, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapters 4, 16
510 RELEASED DEC 09 (extradited to Italian custody) Nasseri, Riyad (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
511 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Nahdi, Sulaiman (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
512 RELEASED JUL 03 Sadik, Mamhud (Mohammed Saduq) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
513 RELEASED DEC 06 Khowlan, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
514 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Anazi, Abdullah (Al Unazi Thani) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
515 RELEASED MAR 04 Ul Haq, Israr (Pakistan) Website Extras 8
516 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Harbi, Ghanim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
517 RELEASED MAY 03 Mohammed, Sultan (Afghanistan) No information
518 RELEASED NOV 03 Akah, Khirullah (Afghanistan) No information
519 POSSIBLY RELEASED DEC 09 Al Quwari, Mahrar (Palestine) Chapter 4, mentioned in More Dubious Charges in the Guantánamo Trials, Guantánamo’s refugees
520 RELEASED MAY 03 Karim, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
521 RELEASED NOV 08 Kerimbakiev, Abdulrahim (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10
522 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Ismail, Yasin (Yemen) Chapter 4, An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition
523 RELEASED MAY 03 Ehssanullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
524 RELEASED SEP 04 Anwar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
525 RELEASED MAR 04 Gul, Ataullah Adam (Afghanistan) No information
526 RELEASED DEC 06 Abahanov, Yakub (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
527 RELEASED SEP 04 Daoud, Mohamman (Afghanistan) Website Extras 2
528 RELEASED DEC 06 Magrupov, Abdullah (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
529 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Bacha (Pakistan) No information
530 RELEASED SEP 04 Gul, Dawd (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
531 RELEASED MAY 03 Hanan, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
532 RELEASED AUG 07 Sharif, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
533 RELEASED JAN 2010 Zumiri, Hassan (Ahcene Zemiri) (Algeria-Canada) Chapter 4
534 RELEASED MAR 04 Dergoul, Tarek (UK) Chapters 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, also see UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues (discussing the prisoners who died in June 2006)
535 El Sawah, Tariq (Al Sawah) (Bosnia-Egypt) Chapter 4, MILITARY COMMISSION
536 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Harbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 8
537 Al Ali, Mahmud (Syria) Website Extras 8
538 RELEASED MAR 04 Alikozi, Amanullah (Afghanistan) No information
539 RELEASED SEP 04 Allah, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
540 RELEASED SEP 04 Omar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
541 RELEASED SEP 04 Noman, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
542 RELEASED MAR 04 Abas, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
543 RELEASED MAR 04 Mert, Nuri (Turkey) Chapter 10
544 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212 and 241, above, and 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
545 RELEASED JUL 03 Urayman, Sajin (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
546 RELEASED JUL 05 Muhibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
547 RELEASED SEP 04 Mohammed, Wali (Afghanistan) No information
548 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241 and 544, above, and 583 and 697-8, below)
549 Al Dayi, Omar (Yemen) Website Extras 2
550 Zaid, Walid (Yemen) Chapter 4
551 RELEASED DEC 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09) Al Rabiah, Fouad (Al Rabia) (Kuwait) Chapters 4, 18, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden, A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
552 Al Kandari, Faiz (Kuwait) Chapter 4, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Story Of Fayiz Al-Kandari, Rubbing Salt in Guantánamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detention, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
553 Al Baidhani, Abdul Khaliq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4 (footnote)
554 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Assani, Fehmi (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
555 RELEASED OCT 06 Muhammed, Abdul Majid (Iran) Chapter 10, also see Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Nov 01-Feb 02)
556 RELEASED MAY 08 Khan, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 15, Website Extras 9
557 RELEASED SEP 07 Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian (Libya) Website Extras 9
558 RELEASED JAN 05 Begg, Moazzam (UK) Chapters 12, 14, 15, also see Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, Moazzam Begg on Ramadan and Eid ul-Fitr in Bagram and Guantánamo, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International, Moazzam Begg’s dignified explanation of why he is not attending Amnesty’s screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Sunday Times misrepresents views of Amnesty’s Sam Zarifi, Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Dangerous Game: A Reply to Gita Sahgal and Her Supporters
559 RELEASED SEP 04 Bader, Bader Zaman (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
560 Mohammed, Haji Wali (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
561 RELEASED APR 05 Muslim Dost, Abdul Rahim (Afghanistan) Chapter 12, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Poetry and politics at Guantánamo: an interview with Marc Falkoff
562 RELEASED AUG 06 Peerzai, Ehsanullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
563 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Sohab Mahud (Iraq) No information
564 Bin Amer, Jalal (Yemen) Chapter 12
565 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Mousa, Abdul Hakim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
566 CLEARED (under Bush) Qattaa, Mansoor (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
567 RELEASED DEC 09 Barre, Mohammed Sulaymon (Mohamed Saleban Bare) (Somalia) Chapter 12, also see “Hell on Earth”: Released Somali Speaks about Guantánamo
568 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Zamel, Adel (Kuwait) Chapters 11, 12, 14, 19
569 Al Shorabi, Zohair (Yemen) Website Extras 9
570 Al Qurashi, Sabri (Yemen) Website Extras 9
571 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Azmi, Sa’ad (Kuwait) Chapter 12
572 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Zabe, Salah (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
573 RELEASED FEB 04 Akhmyarov, Rustam (Russia) Chapter 18
574 Al Wady, Hamoud (Yemen) Chapter 12
575 Al Azani, Saad (Yemen) Chapter 12
576 Bin Hamdoun, Zahir (Yemen) Website Extras 9
577 RELEASED DEC 09 Mar’i, Jamal (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
578 Al Suadi, Abdul Aziz (Yemen) Chapters 12, 19
579 Khairkhwa, Khairullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
580 RELEASED JUL 03 Ahmad, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
581 RELEASED MAR 05 Rahman, Saeed Abdur (Pakistan) Chapter 12 (footnote), also see Website Extras 9
582 RELEASED JUL 03 Noorani, Abdul Rahman (Afghanistan) Chapter 15
583 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241, 544 and 548, above, and 697-8, below)
584 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Noori, Adel (China) Website Extras 9, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
585 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Umar, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) No information
586 RELEASED AUG 05 Khamisan, Karama (Yemen) Chapters 12, 14, 15
587 RELEASED JUL 04 Benchekroun, Brahim (Morocco) Chapters 12, 14
588 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Utaybi, Mani (Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
589 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Asmar, Khalid (Jordan) Chapter 12
590 RELEASED APR 07 Errachidi, Ahmed (Morocco-UK) Chapters 12, 19, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Two Americas, both unjust, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov 01-May 02)
591 RELEASED OCT 06 Esmhatulla, Qari (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (footnote), also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
592-622 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
623 RELEASED MAR 04 Bameri, Bakhtiar (Iran) Chapter 14
624 RELEASED NOV 03 Mehmood, Majid (Pakistan) Website Extras 11
625 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
626 RELEASED JUL 03 Ullah, Noor Habib (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
627 RELEASED DEC 09 Batarfi, Ayman (Yemen) Chapter 14, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today
628 RELEASED MAY 03 Alizai, Nematuallah Sahib Khan (Afghanistan) No information
629 RELEASED MAY 03 Alikhan, Mahngur (Afghanistan) No information
630 RELEASED JUL 03 Rahmad, Nisar (Afghanistan) No information
631 RELEASED APR 05 Wazir, Padsha (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
632 RELEASED MAY 03 Shah, Rostum (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
633 RELEASED JUL 03 Farooq, Muhammed Naim (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
634 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Ali (Pakistan) No information
635 RELEASED JUL 03 Akhber, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
636 RELEASED JUL 03 Gul, Nathi (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
637 RELEASED NOV 03 Insanullah (Afghanistan) No information
638 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Badshah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
639 RELEASED MAR 04 Bismillah (Afghanistan) No information
640 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Niaz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
641 RELEASED JUL 04 Ergashev, Abdul-Karim (Abdulrahmon Rajabov) (Tajikistan) Chapter 19, also see Tajikistan: ex-Guantánamo prisoner plans to sue George Bush
642 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamidullah (Afghanistan) No information
643 RELEASED MAY 03 Tahir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
644 RELEASED MAR 03 Muhammed, Mirza (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
645 RELEASED MAR 03 Kabel, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
646 RELEASED JUL 03 Asekzai, Azizullah (Afghanistan) No information
647 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Shamaree, Zaban (Al Shammari) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
648 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Tamimi, Haydar Jabbar Hafez (Iraq) No information
649 RELEASED MAR 05 Patel, Mushtaq Ali (France) Chapter 14
650 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Qahtani, Jabir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
651 RELEASED NOV 07 Abu Kabir, Usama (Osama) (Jordan) Website Extras 11
652 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Qahtani, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 14
653 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Karim, Arkan (Iraq) Chapter 14, also see Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low
654 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama) Al Ghizzawi, Abdul Hamid (Libya) Chapters 14, 19, also see The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Horror at Guantánamo, Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer, More Dark Truths from Guantánamo, as Five Innocent Men Released
655 RELEASED FEB 06 Khudaidad (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
656 RELEASED NOV 03 Baqi, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
657 RELEASED OCT 02 Mohammed, Haji Faiz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (he was 70 years old)
658 RELEASED MAR 03 Bismillah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
659 RELEASED DEC 07 Sameur, Abdulnour (Abdennour) (UK-Algeria) Chapters 7, 8, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result
660 RELEASED JUN 07 Lagha, Lotfi Bin Swei (Lofti Lagha) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, “I’m innocent,” says Guantánamo detainee Lotfi Lagha, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in Tunisia
661 RELEASED JAN 05 Habib, Mamdouh (Australia) Chapters 16, 19, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
662 RELEASED NOV 07 Sulayman, Ahmed (Jordan) Chapter 12
663 RELEASED JUL 03 El-Weleli, Reda Fadel (Egypt) Arbitrarily imprisoned for several years on his return to Egypt
664 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Uwaydah, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
665 RELEASED MAR 04 Eideov, Sadee (Tajikistan) No information
666 RELEASED NOV 03 Hezbullah (Afghanistan) No information
667 RELEASED JUL 03 Sarwar, Kari Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
668 RELEASED MAR 04 Andarr, Abdul Al Hameed (Afghanistan) No information
669 RELEASED JUN 09 Zuhair, Ahmed Zaid Salim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see Guantánamo’s Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home
670 RELEASED NOV 07 Hekmat, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
671 RELEASED MAR 03 Abassin, Said (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
672 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Asam, Zakirjan (Russia) Chapter 14
673 RELEASED MAR 03 Khan, Alif (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
674 RELEASED FEB 04 Ishmuradov, Timur (Russia) Chapters 14, 18
675 CLEARED (under Bush) Kasimbekov, Kamalludin (Uzbekistan) Website Extras 11
676 RELEASED AUG 05 Anwarkurd, Mohammed (Iran) Website Extras 11
677 RELEASED NOV 03 Wazir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
678 RELEASED JUN 07 Mahdi, Fawaz (Yemen) Chapter 14
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Mar-Jul 02)
679 RELEASED DEC 09 Tahir, Mohammed (Tahar, Taher) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
680 Hassan, Emad (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
681 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010), CLEARED (under Bush and Obama) Hassen, Mohammed (Mohammed Hassan Odaini) (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo, Obama’s Moral Bankruptcy Regarding Torture
682 Al Sharbi, Ghassan (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 13, 19, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), also see Doing The Right Thing, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
683 RELEASED DEC 09 Ahmed, Fayad Yahya (Al Rami) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
684 Tahamuttan, Mohammed (Palestine) Website Extras 10
685 Ali, Abdelrazak (Abdullah Azak) (Algeria) Website Extras 10
686 Hakim, Abdel (Yemen) Chapter 13
687 RELEASED JUN 09 Al Noofayaee, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
688 Ahmed, Fahmi (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
689 Salam, Mohamed (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
690 Qader, Ahmed Abdul (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
691 Al Zarnuki, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 13
692 RELEASED SEP 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (May 09) Ahmed, Alla Ali Bin Ali (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Judge Condemns “Mosaic” Of Guantánamo Intelligence, And Unreliable Witnesses, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?
693 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Salami, Ali Abdullah Ahmed (Salah Ahmed al-Salami) (Yemen) Chapters 13, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
694 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Barhoumi, Sufyian (Algeria) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
695 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Abu Bakr, Omar (Omar Mohammed Khalifh) (Libya) Chapter 12, Judge Denies Habeas Petition of an Ill and Abused Libyan in Guantánamo
696 Al Qahtani, Jabran (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
697-698 NO ISN (probably Omar Ghramesh and an unnamed teenager, captured with Abu Zubaydah and rendered to Syria; also see 180, 212, 241, 544, 548 and 583, above)
699 RELEASED SEP 04 Farhad, Din Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
700 RELEASED MAR 04 Babikir, Mohammed Al Ghazali (Sudan) Chapter 13
701 RELEASED FEB 06 Kiyemba, Jamal (UK-Uganda) Chapters 13, 14
702 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010) Mingazov, Ravil (Russia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Bringing Guantánamo To New York, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
703 RELEASED NOV 08 Ahmed, Labed (Algeria) Chapter 13, also see Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
704 RELEASED NOV 08 Abdallah, Mohammed Hussein (Somalia) Chapter 13
705 RELEASED JUL 08 Hamlili, Mustafa (Algeria) Chapter 13
706 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Amin, Mohammed (Mauritania) Chapters 13, 14
707 Muhammed, Noor Uthman (Sudan) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
708 Al Bakush, Ismael (Libya) Website Extras 10
709 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qassim, Abdul Rauf (Libya) Website Extras 10, Return to torture: cleared Guantánamo detainee Abdul Rauf al-Qassim fears return to Libya
710 RELEASED DEC 07 Adem, Salim Muhood (Amir, bin Amir) (Sudan) Chapter 13, also see Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture”
711 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamid, Hassan (Jordan) Chapter 13
712 RELEASED JUL 05 Gadallah, Hammad (Sudan) Chapter 13
713 Al Zahrani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 10
714 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmad, Rashid (Sudan) Chapter 13
715 RELEASED MAR 04 Mustafa, Hussain (Jordan) Chapters 13, 14
716 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Salim, Ala (Egypt) Chapters 13, 19
717 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 09), CLEARED (under Bush) Bin Hadiddi, Abdulhadi (Hedi Hammamy) (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, Farce at Guantánamo, as cleared prisoner’s habeas petition is denied, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame
718 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Boucetta, Fethi (Algeria) Chapter 13
719 RELEASED OCT 08 Al Hassan, Mustafa (Sudan) Website Extras 10
720 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Amir, Amir Yacoub (Yacoub Mahmoud) (Sudan) Website Extras 10
721 RELEASED JUN 07 Omar, Abdullah Bin (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, Out of Guantánamo and into the fire
722 Diyab, Jihad (Syria) Website Extras 10
723-725 NO ISN
726 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Henali, Menhal (Syria) Chapter 13
727 RELEASED DEC 07 Deghayes, Omar (UK-Libya) Chapters 13, 14, 15, also see The testimony of Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request, Spanish drop “inhuman” extradition request for Guantánamo Britons, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, The Guardian interviews Omar Deghayes: “The spirit is what makes us who we are”, White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: Report on screenings in Bradford and Norwich, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: 500 turn up for Kent screening, plus report on SOAS and UCL events, Video: Omar Deghayes Discusses British Complicity in Torture in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantánamo, A warm Scottish welcome for “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, An interview with Omar Deghayes, following Kent screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A session at Glasgow screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” with Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Aamer Anwar, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part One): Omar’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Two): Terry’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
728 Nassir, Jamil (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
729 RELEASED MAR 04 Umarov, Muhibullo (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
730 RELEASED MAR 05 Fauzee, Ibrahim (Maldives) Chapter 13 (footnote)
731 RELEASED MAR 04 Mazharuddin (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
732 RELEASED MAR 04 Shirinov, Abdughaffor (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
Various (some extraordinary renditions)
(Note: from here, ISN numbers become erratic, as prisoners were released in greater numbers from Bagram without being transferred to Guantánamo)
743 RELEASED AUG 08 Madni, Mohammed Saad Iqbal (Pakistan) Chapters 16, 19, also see Revealed: Identity Of Guantánamo Torture Victim Rendered Through Diego Garcia, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
744 CLEARED (under Bush) Naji, Aziz Abdul (Algeria) Chapter 13
753 Zahir, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
757 Abdul Aziz, Ahmed Ould (Mauritania) Website Extras 10
758 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Naely, Abbas (Iraq) Chapters 13, 20
760 WON HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2010) Slahi, Mohamedou Ould (Salahi) (Mauritania) Chapters 16, 20, mentioned in Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, also see Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
761 RELEASED NOV 07 Zeidan, Ibrahim (Libya) Chapters 14, 20
762 Obaidullah (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
766 Khadr, Omar (Canada) Chapters 14, 15, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, The Trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo’s “child soldier”, Guantánamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?, Guantánamo’s Shambolic Trials, Torture allegations dog Guantánamo trials, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, “Screwed up and abused”: Omar Khadr’s Canadian interrogations at Guantánamo, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Omar Khadr: The Guantánamo Files, The Collapse of Omar Khadr’s Guantánamo Trial, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, A Broken Circus: Guantánamo Trials Convene For One Day Of Chaos, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President!, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Failed “War on Terror”, Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo Legacy, The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners
768 Al Darbi, Ahmed Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, The US military’s shameless propaganda over Guantánamo’s 9/11 trials, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Torture in Bagram and Guantánamo: The Declaration of Ahmed al-Darbi, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Jun 02-Aug 03)
782 Gul, Awal (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
783 RELEASED OCT 06 Ullah, Shams (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
798 RELEASED MAY 08 Roohullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
801 RELEASED SEP 07 Melma, Sabar Lal (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
812 RELEASED APR 05 Shah, Qalandar (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
817 RELEASED JAN 05 Belmar, Richard (UK) Chapters 12, 14, also see UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim
818 RELEASED MAR 04 Khan, Haji Osman (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
820 RELEASED NOV 03 Yousef, Mohammed Haji (Afghanistan) No information
822 RELEASED MAR 04 Aslam, Noor (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
826 RELEASED FEB 06 Salaam, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
830 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Tila Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
831 RELEASED OCT 06 Khandan, Qadir (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
832 Omari, Mohammed Nabi (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
834 RELEASED APR 05 Shabeen, Naquibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
835 RELEASED APR 05 Rasoul, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
836 Saleh, Ayoub Murshid Ali (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
837 Al Marwalah, Bashir (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
838 Balzuhair, Shawki Awad (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
839 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Dec 09) Al Mudwani, Musab (Musa’ab al-Madhwani)(Yemen) Chapter 16, also see “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
840 Al Maythali, Hail Aziz Ahmed (Yemen) Chapter 16, also see “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
841 Nashir, Said Salih Said (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
842 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmad, Sultan (Pakistan) The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, no other information
843 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmed, Saghir (Pakistan) No information
845 RELEASED AUG 06 Akitar, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
848 RELEASED AUG 07 Ullah, Amin (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
849 RELEASED OCT 06 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
850 RELEASED DEC 09 Hashim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials
856 RELEASED MAR 04 Barak (Afghanistan) No information
874 RELEASED NOV 07 Nasir, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
886 RELEASED MAY 08 Nasrullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
888 RELEASED MAY 08 Ismatullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
890 RELEASED MAY 08 Sangaryar, Rahmatullah (Afghanistan) Chapters 14, 18
892 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Hami, Rafiq (Alhami) (Tunisia) Chapter 16, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
893 Al Bihani, Tawfiq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
894 CLEARED (under Bush) Abdul Rahman, Mohammed (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, Judge prevents innocent Tunisian’s return to torture from Guantánamo
895 NO ISN (almost certainly Dilawar, the innocent Afghan taxi driver who was murdered in Bagram; see Chapter 14 and When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan)
896 RELEASED MAR 04 Parkhudin (Afghanistan) Chapter 14, also see When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan
897 RELEASED MAR 04 Rahim, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14, also see When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan
898 RELEASED MAR 04 Shah, Zakkim (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
899 Khan, Shawali (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
900 RELEASED AUG 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 09) Jawad, Mohamed (Mohammed) (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, Torture allegations dog Guantánamo trials, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials, New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantánamo Trials, Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Condemns “Chaotic” Trials in Case of Teenage Torture Victim, Torture Taints the Case of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamed Jawad, A Child At Guantánamo: The Unending Torment of Mohamed Jawad, Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions, How Judge Huvelle Humiliated The Government In Guantánamo Case, As Judge Orders Release Of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner, Government Refuses To Concede Defeat, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Secure Mohammed Jawad’s Release From Guantánamo, Freed From Guantánamo, Mohammed Jawad Celebrates Eid With His Family, Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Guantánamo, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo, More “Congressional Depravity” on Guantánamo, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
902 RELEASED OCT 06 Mohammed, Taj (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
905 RELEASED DEC 07 El Banna, Jamil (UK-Jordan) Chapter 16, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request, Spanish drop “inhuman” extradition request for Guantánamo Britons, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
906 RELEASED MAR 07 Al Rawi, Bisher (UK-Iraq) Chapter 16, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Hiding Torture And Freeing Binyam Mohamed From Guantánamo, Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
907 RELEASED OCT 06 Rahman, Habib (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
908 RELEASED MAR 04 Muhammed, Peta (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
909 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Mohabet (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, probably a juvenile
910 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Seized with 907-9, 911-14, no other information
911 RELEASED SEP 04 Samad, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, probably a juvenile
912 RELEASED JAN 04 Rahman, Asadullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
913 RELEASED JAN 04 Ullah, Naqib (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
914 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Shardar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
919 RELEASED OCT 06 Ullah, Faiz (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
923 RELEASED DEC 07 Razzaq, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
928 Gul, Khi Ali (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
929 RELEASED APR 05 Qudus, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
930 RELEASED JAN 04 Agha, Mohammed Ismael (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
931 RELEASED SEP 04 Kuchi, Haji Naim (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see Expelled UN official criticizes Afghan policy re: Taliban – and defends ex-Guantánamo detainee
933 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Swar (Afghanistan) Chapter 18, Website Extras 12
934 Ghani, Abdul (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), Website Extras 12
939 RELEASED OCT 08 Ameur, Mammar (Algeria) Chapter 13
940 RELEASED DEC 07 Hamad, Adel Hassan (Sudan) Chapter 13, also see Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture”, Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s Lies About Guantánamo
941 RELEASED SEP 07 Din, Juma (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
942 DIED IN GUANTANAMO DEC 07 Hekmati, Abdul Razzaq (Afghanistan) Chapter 18, also see Afghan hero who died in Guantánamo: the background to the story, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
943 RELEASED AUG 07 Ghani, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
944 RELEASED DEC 09 Sharifullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
945 RELEASED SEP 07 Jan, Said Amir (Amir Jan Ghorzang) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?
948 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Anwar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
949 RELEASED DEC 06 Zahor, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
950 RELEASED FEB 06 Khan, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
951 RELEASED SEP 07 Nasir, Allah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
952 RELEASED APR 05 Shahzada, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
953 RELEASED APR 05 Hammidullah (Janat Gul) (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
954 RELEASED DEC 07 Ghafour, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
955 RELEASED NOV 07 Quasam, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
956 RELEASED SEP 07 Ahmad, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
958 RELEASED APR 05 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
960 RELEASED SEP 04 Bismaullah (Afghanistan) No information
961 RELEASED AUG 08 Wahab, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
963 RELEASED FEB 06 Bagi, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
964 RELEASED DEC 06 Rahmatullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
965 RELEASED DEC 06 Shah, Hafizullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
966 RELEASED DEC 06 Baridad (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
967 RELEASED NOV 07 Naserullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
968 RELEASED JAN 09 Bismullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
969 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Akhtar (Afghanistan) No information
970 RELEASED SEP 04 Amanullah (Afghanistan) No information
971 RELEASED FEB 06 Yar, Kushky (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
972 RELEASED DEC 06 Mohammed, Alif (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
974 RELEASED SEP 07 Mohibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
975 Karim, Bostan (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, discussed in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part Two)
976 RELEASED DEC 07 Wazir, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
977 RELEASED NOV 07 Yar, Izatullah Nasrat (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
986 RELEASED APR 05 Kandahari, Kako (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
987 RELEASED FEB 07 Ghalib, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
990 RELEASED NOV 03 Khadr, Abdurahman (Canada) Chapter 14
996 RELEASED MAR 04 Wazir, Haji Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
998 RELEASED MAR 04 Hasan, Mirwais (Afghanistan) No information
1001 RELEASED DEC 07 Khail, Dr Hafizullah Shabaz (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Story of Abdullah Mujahid, an Afghan police chief betrayed by the US administration and wrongly sent to Guantánamo
1002 RELEASED DEC 07 Matin, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1003 RELEASED NOV 07 Ahmed, Shabir (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
1004 RELEASED AUG 07 Yacoub, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
1005 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmad, Bashir (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
1006 RELEASED SEP 04 Irfan, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
1007 RELEASED OCT 06 Sadiqi, Abdul Halim (Pakistan) Chapter 15
1008 Sohail, Mohammed Mustafa (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1009 RELEASED AUG 06 Khan, Haji Nasrat (Afghanistan) Chapter 17 (he was 78 years old)
1010 RELEASED NOV 07 Shah, Zahir (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1011 RELEASED SEP 04 Akbar, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
1012 RELEASED DEC 07 Tukhi, Aminullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1013 RELEASED APR 05 Ahmed, Feda (Afghanistan) Chapter 16 (footnote)
1014 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Qadasi, Walid (Yemen) Chapter 16, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1015 WON HABEAS PETITION (July 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Almerfedi, Hussein (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1016 RELEASED NOV 08 Al Hawari, Soufian (Algeria) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1017 Al Rammah, Omar (Zakaria al-Baidany) (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1018 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmed, Wisam (Wassam Al Ourdoni) (Jordan) Chapter 16, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1019 RELEASED APR 05 Darwaish, Naibullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1021 RELEASED DEC 07 Chaman, (Commander) Gul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1030 RELEASED DEC 09 Hafiz, Abdul (Abdul Qari) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1032 RELEASED DEC 07 Ghafaar, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1035 RELEASED OCT 06 Jan, Sada (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1036 RELEASED DEC 06 Akhtiar, Haji Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1037 RELEASED FEB 07 Chaman, Nazar Gul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1041 RELEASED APR 05 Noor, Habib (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1043 RELEASED AUG 07 Mohammed, Abdul Razaq Iktiar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1045 Kamin, Mohammed (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 12, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, mentioned in Afghan Nobody Faces Trial by Military Commission
1050 RELEASED APR 07 Azimullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, The Anonymous Victims of Guantánamo
1051 RELEASED FEB 06 Sharbat Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1052 RELEASED AUG 08 Rahman, Mahbub (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1056 RELEASED AUG 06 Mohammed, Said (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1074 RELEASED OCT 06 Aman, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1075 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Kakai (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1094 Paracha, Saifullah (Pakistan) Chapter 16, also see Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1095 RELEASED NOV 08 Merozhev, Zainulabidin (Jumma Jan) (Tajikistan) Website Extras 12
1100 RELEASED DEC 07 Haq, Abdullah Mujahid (Afghanistan) Chapters 17, 18, also see The Story of Abdullah Mujahid, an Afghan police chief betrayed by the US administration and wrongly sent to Guantánamo
1103 Zahir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
1104 RELEASED DEC 09 Rahim, Mohamed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1117 RELEASED MAR 05 Jalil, Mullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1119 Hamidullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1154 RELEASED OCT 06 Ali Shah, Dr. Said Mohammed (Mousavi) (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1157 RELEASED APR 05 Khan, Hukumra (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1165 RELEASED JUL 08 Mussa, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
Extraordinary renditions
1452 RELEASED JAN 2010 Al Jazeeri, Adil (Algeria) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1453 Al Kazimi, Sanad (Yemen) Website Extras 11, An unreported story from Guantánamo: the tale of Sanad al-Kazimi, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1456 Bin Attash, Hassan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
1457 Sharqawi, Abdu Ali (Sharqwi Abdu Ali al-Hajj) (Yemen) Chapter 12, mentioned in Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
1458 RELEASED FEB 09 Mohamed, Binyam (UK-Ethiopia) Chapter 16, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), also see Guantánamo: Torture victim Binyam Mohamed sues British government for evidence, Binyam Mohamed’s judicial review: judges grill British agent and question fairness of Guantánamo trials, High Court rules against UK and US in case of Guantánamo torture victim Binyam Mohamed, US Justice Department drops “dirty bomb plot” allegation against Binyam Mohamed, Guilt By Torture: Binyam Mohamed’s Transatlantic Quest for Justice, A History of Music Torture in the “War on Terror”, Is Robert Gates Guilty of Perjury in Guantánamo Torture Case?, British torture victim Binyam Mohamed to be released from Guantánamo, Don’t Forget Guantánamo, The Betrayal of British Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed, Hiding Torture And Freeing Binyam Mohamed From Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed’s Coming Home From Guantánamo, As Torture Allegations Mount, Who Is Binyam Mohamed?, Seven Years of Torture: Binyam Mohamed Tells His Story, Binyam Mohamed’s Plea Bargain: Trading Torture For Freedom, Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture, UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, Daily Mail Pulls Story About Binyam Mohamed And British Spy, Government Bans Testimony On Binyam Mohamed And The British Spy, More twists in the tale of Binyam Mohamed (in the Guardian), Did Hillary Clinton Threaten UK Over Binyam Mohamed Torture Disclosure?, Binyam Mohamed: Was Muhammad Salih’s Death In Guantánamo Suicide?, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed Speaks (Video), UK Judges Order Release Of Details About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed By US Agents, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Musicians (Finally) Say No To Music Torture, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Binyam Mohamed: Evidence of Torture by US Agents Revealed in UK, Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Failed “War on Terror”, As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time for Shaker Aamer to Come Home from Guantánamo, Judges Restore Damning Passage on MI5 to the Binyam Mohamed Torture Ruling, How Binyam Mohammed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US Court, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK
1460 Rabbani, Abdul Rahim Ghulam (Pakistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1461 Rabbani, Mohammed Ghulam (Pakistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1463 Al Hela, Abdulsalam (Yemen) Chapter 16, Anger in Yemen Over Halt to Release of Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
10001 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08), WON APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Bensayah, Belkacem (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16, also see After 7 Years, Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo Kidnap Victims, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, First Guantánamo Prisoner To Lose Habeas Hearing Appeals Ruling
10002 RELEASED DEC 09 (in France), WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Lahmar, Sabir (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapters 16, 19 (also see 10001)
10003 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Nechle, Mohammed (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10004 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Ait Idr, Mustafa (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10005 RELEASED MAY 09 (in France), WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Boumediene, Lakhdar (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16, also see Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: who are Fawzi al-Odah and Lakhdar Boumediene?, An interview with Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham (Part Two), Life After Guantánamo: Lakhdar Boumediene Speaks, Lakhdar Boumediene Talks About Torture At Guantánamo (video) (and also see 10001)
10006 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Al Hajj, Boudella (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10007 RELEASED JAN 05 Mubanga, Martin (UK) Chapter 16, also see UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim
10008-10010 NO ISN
14 “high value detainees” (arrived Sep 06)
10011 Al Hawsawi, Mustafa (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, In a legal otherworld, 9/11 defendants cry torture at Guantánamo, Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?, Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Coup?, Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, Obama Proposes Swift Execution of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, 9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10012 Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan (Tanzania) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Face Trial In September 2010, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter-Productive Call for Military Commissions, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10013 Bin Al Shibh, Ramzi (Yemen) Chapters 16, 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record (and also see 10011)
10014 Bin Attash, Waleed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (and also see 10011)
10015 Al Nashiri, Abdul Rahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Who’s Running Guantánamo?, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10016 Zubaydah, Abu (Palestine-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 13, 16, 20, also see The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubyadah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, Guantánamo trials: critical judge sacked, British torture victim charged, Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two), Abu Zubaydah: The Futility Of Torture and A Trail of Broken Lives, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?, CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low, The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions, UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary, Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons, Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell, The Torture of Abu Zubaydah: The Complaint Filed Against James Mitchell for Ethical Violations
10017 Al Libi, Abu Faraj (Libya) Chapter 20, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10018 Al Baluchi, Ammar (Ali Abdul Aziz Ali) (Pakistan-Kuwait) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (and also see 10011)
10019 Isamuddin, Riduan (Hamlili) (Indonesia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10020 Khan, Majid (Pakistan) Chapter 20, also see Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10021 Bin Amin, Modh Farik (Zubair) (Malaysia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10022 Bin Lep, Mohammed (Lillie) (Malaysia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10023 Dourad, Gouled Hassan (Somalia) Chapter 20, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10024 Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (Pakistan-Kuwait) Chapters 16, 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, Jane Mayer on the CIA’s “black sites”, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, In a legal otherworld, 9/11 defendants cry torture at Guantánamo, Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?, Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Coup?, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One), Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Obama Proposes Swift Execution of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators, First photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Guantánamo, 9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship, When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter-Productive Call for Military Commissions, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
Other new arrivals (Mar 07-Mar 08)
10025 Malik, Mohammed Abdul (Kenya) Chapter 20, also see Myopic Pentagon Keeps Filling Guantánamo
10026 Al Iraqi, Abdul Hadi (Iraq) UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (also see 10025)
10027 RELEASED DEC 09 Arale, Abdullahi Sudi (Ismail Mahmoud Muhammad) (Somalia) (also see 10025)
10028 Al Afghani, Haroon (Afghanistan) (see 10025)
10029 Inayatullah (Afghanistan) (see 10025)
10030 Rahim, Muhammad (Afghanistan) UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (also see 10025)
July 2010
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/12/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-updated-for-summer-2010/
How to use the list
In the categories below, ISN refers to the Internment Serial Number by which the prisoners are (or were) known and identified in Guantánamo, followed by the prisoners’ status (released, cleared for release, still held, or, in five cases, deceased), their names (with just some of the many different permutations noted, in some cases), their nationality, and links or references to chapters in The Guantánamo Files. Links on the release dates feed into articles published when the prisoners were released.
Of the prisoners cleared for release, some, as indicated, were cleared by military review boards under the Bush administration, others (37 at the time of writing) had been cleared by judges in US courts, who had granted their habeas corpus petitions, and 97 had been cleared by the Obama administration’s interagency Task Force, which reviewed their cases last year. The Task Force has not announced the names of the prisoners it has cleared (although many are the same as those cleared under Bush, and the figures also include those cleared by the courts). As a result, several dozen prisoners in these lists have also been cleared, but I am unable to provide details.
To establish more context, the chapters in the book, and the online chapters, deal with the following places in which the prisoners were seized (or, in other cases, their rendition and torture in secret prisons):
Captured in Afghanistan: Chapters 2, 3, 9, 10, 14, 17, Website Extras 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12
Captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan: Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, Website
Extras 3, 4, 5, 6
Captured in Pakistan: Chapters 12, 13, Website Extras 9, 10
Subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and/or detention in secret prisons: Chapters 16, 20, Website Extras 11
In addition, Chapter 8 refers to imprisonment at the US prison at Kandahar airport, Chapter 11 deals with the early months of Guantánamo’s existence, Chapter 14 also deals with imprisonment in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Chapter 15 refers to torture and abuse in Guantánamo, Chapter 18 refers to legal challenges, and Chapter 19 refers to hunger strikes, suicide attempts and medical malpractice.
The 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo (Part 1)
ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References
Captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
001 NO ISN (John Walker Lindh, not sent to Guantánamo because he is a US citizen, received 20-year sentence in 2002; see Chapters 2, 3, 8, 18, also see Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo)
002 RELEASED MAY 07 Hicks, David (Australia) Chapters 9, 15, 18, 19, 20, MILITARY COMMISSION (nine-month sentence after plea bargain), also see The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials
003 RELEASED DEC 07 Ruhani, Gholam (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
004 Wasiq, Abdul-Haq (Afghanistan) Chapter 10, discussed in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One)
005 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Matrafi, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16
006 Noori, Mullah Norullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
007 Fazil, Mullah Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
008 RELEASED DEC 07 Rasoul, Abdullah Ghulam (Afghanistan) Chapter 10, also see Who are ‘the worst of the worst’? (in the Guardian)
009 RELEASED APR 02 Hamdi, Yaser (USA-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 18, transferred to US, held as an enemy combatant until Oct 04, see Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers in Case of US “Enemy Combatant” Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri
010 RELEASED SEP 04 Sattar, Abdul (Pakistan) Chapter 9
011 RELEASED SEP 04 Safeezi, Abdul Sattar (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
012 RELEASED MAY 03 Usman, Shabidzada (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
013 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Qahtani, Fahed Mohamed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2 (footnote)
014 RELEASED SEP 04 Iqbal, Zafar (Pakistan) No information
015 RELEASED OCT 06 Ul Shah, Zia (Pakistan) Chapter 9
016 RELEASED JUL 03 Al Deen, Jamal Muhammad (Pakistan) No information
017 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Muhammed Ijaz (Pakistan) Chapter 9
018 RELEASED SEP 04 Sayed, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
019 RELEASED MAY 03 Alikhel, Shah Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapters 9, 19, also see Website Extras 7
020 RELEASED NOV 03 Ishaq, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
021 RELEASED JUL 03 Hudin, Salah (Pakistan) No information
022 RELEASED SEP 09 (in Ireland) Hamiduva, Shakhrukh (Uzbekistan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees
023 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Isa (Pakistan) Chapter 9
024 RELEASED JAN 05 Abbasi, Feroz (UK) Chapter 10
025 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Joudi, Majeed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, Website Extras 8
Mostly captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (Dec 01)
026 CLEARED (under Bush) Ghazi, Fahed (Yemen) Chapter 5
027 WON HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010) Uthman, Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 5, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
028 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09) Al Alawi, Muaz (Moath Al Alwi) (Yemen) Website Extras 3, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies
029 Al Ansi, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 3
030 Al Hikimi, Ahmed (Yemen) Website Extras 3
031 Al Mujahid, Mahmoud (Yemen) Chapter 5
032 RELEASED DEC 09 Ahmed, Faruq Ali (Farouq Ali Ahmed, Farouq Saif) (Yemen) Chapter 5, also see Guantánamo Whistleblowers: Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is not the first insider to condemn the kangaroo courts
033 WON HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09) Al Adahi, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 12, also see No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, What Does It Take To Get Out Of Obama’s Guantánamo?
034 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Yafi, Abdullah (Yemen) Website Extras 3
035 Qader Idris, Idris (Yemen) Website Extras 3
036 Idris, Ibrahim (Sudan) Chapter 5
037 Al Rahabi, Abdul Malik (Yemen) Chapters 5, 8
038 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Yazidi, Ridah (Tunisia) Chapter 5
039 Al Bahlul, Ali Hamza (Yemen) Chapters 5, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION (life sentence, Nov 08), also see Doing the Right Thing, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, An Empty Trial at Guantánamo, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions
040 Al Mudafari, Abdel Qadir (Yemen) Website Extras 3
041 Ahmad, Majid (Yemen) Website Extras 3
042 Shalabi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, Website Extras 3
043 Moqbel, Samir (Yemen) Chapter 5
044 Ghanim, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapters 5, 15, 19
045 Al Rezehi, Ali Ahmad (Yemen) Website Extras 3
046 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Abdallah, Sayf Bin (Saleh Sassi) (Tunisia) Website Extras 3, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo
047 RELEASED JUL 03 Ullah, Asad (Pakistan) Website Extras 3
048 RELEASED JUL 08 Alhamiri, Abdullah (UAE) Website Extras 3
049 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Spain), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Aasmi, Assem Matruq (Walid Hijazi) (Palestine) Website Extras 9, Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in Spain?, Abandoned in Spain: The Palestinian Freed from Guantánamo
050 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Ghamdi, Zayd Al Husayn (Al Ghamidi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
051 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Barayan, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
052 RELEASED AUG 07 Al Murbati, Isa (Bahrain) Chapters 8, 12, 15, also see Isolation in Guantánamo
053 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Mahayawi, Saud Dakhil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
054 Al Qosi, Ibrahim (Sudan) Chapters 5, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION, also see The US military’s shameless propaganda over Guantánamo’s 9/11 trials, Torture, Preventive Detention and the Terror Trials At Guantánamo, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions, Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantánamo Trial (accepted plea bargain, July 2010 – sentence to follow in August)
055 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Zayla, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
056 RELEASED AUG 03 Tabarak, Abdullah (Morocco) Chapter 5, mentioned in Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession
057 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Harbi, Salim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
058 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Wahab, Musa (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
059 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Uwaydha, Sultan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
060 RELEASED NOV 05 Haji, Adel Kamel (Bahrain) Chapters 5, 7, 8
061 RELEASED AUG 06 Kurnaz, Murat (Germany-Turkey) Chapter 12, also see Five Years in Guantánamo, Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
062 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Juhani, Mohammed (Al Jihani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3
063 Al Qahtani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 5, 15, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
064 RELEASED MAY 06 Sebaii, Abdel Hadi (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
065 RELEASED SEP 06 Amin, Omar Rajab (Kuwait) Chapter 5
066 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Sulami, Yasim (Al Silami) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 5, 15
067 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Sharekh, Abdulrazzaq (Al Sharikh, Al Tamini) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
068 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Bawardi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 5
Captured in Afghanistan and held in Qala-i-Janghi/Sheberghan (Nov 01)
069 RELEASED JUN 07 Ismail, Sadeq (Sadeq Mohammed Said) (Yemen) Website Extras 9
070 RELEASED JUL 08 Houari, Abdul Raham (Algeria) Website Extras 8
071 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shedoky, Mishal (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
072 RELEASED JUL 05 Ikassrien, Lahcen (Spain) Website Extras 1
073 RELEASED JUN 06 Nur, Yusif Khalil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
074 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Rashid, Mishal Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
075 RELEASED FEB 06 Lahcini, Najib (Morocco) Website Extras 1
076 RELEASED FEB 07 Sharipov, Rukniddin (Tajikistan) Website Extras 1, Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks
077 RELEASED FEB 07 Fazrollah, Mehrabanb (Tajikistan) Website Extras 1
078 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 09 Al Hanashi, Mohammad (Muhammad Salih) (Yemen) Chapter 20, also see Website Extras 1, As a sixth “high-value detainee” is charged at Guantánamo, disturbing evidence surfaces, Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court, Death At Guantánamo Hovers Over Obama’s Middle East Visit, Binyam Mohamed: Was Muhammad Salih’s Death In Guantánamo Suicide?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
079 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Harazi, Fahed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
080 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shabrani, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
081 RELEASED MAY 08 Ali, Walid Mohammed (Sudan) Chapter 2
082 RELEASED FEB 04 Kudayev, Rasul (Russia) Chapters 2, 18, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
083 RELEASED JUL 04 Nabied, Yusef (Tajikistan) No information
084 RELEASED DEC 06 Batayev, Ilkham (Kazakhstan) Chapter 2, mentioned in Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison
085 RELEASED NOV 03 Bin Naseer, Munir (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
086 RELEASED MAR 04 Rasul, Shafiq (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
087 RELEASED MAR 04 Iqbal, Asif (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
088 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow soon) Awad, Adham Ali (Yemen) Website Extras 8, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
089 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia), CLEARED (under Obama) Tsiradzho, Poolad (Azerbaijan) Website Extras 1, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
090 RELEASED FEB 07 Mokit, Wahldof Abdul (Muqit Vohidov) (Tajikistan) Chapter 9 (footnote), also see Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks
091 Al Saleh, Abdul (Yemen) Website Extras 1
092 RELEASED MAR 04 Shah, Said Mohammed Alim (allegedly the alias of Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud) (Afghanistan) If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released
093 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Zahrani, Yasser Talal (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 18, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
094 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Sehli, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
095 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Ghamdi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
096 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Utaybi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
097 RELEASED JUL 03 Khan, Tariq Aziz (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
098 RELEASED SEP 04 Saeed, Hafiz Ehsan (Pakistan) Chapter 9
099 RELEASED JUL 03 Razaq, Abdul (Pakistan) Chapter 8
100 RELEASED SEP 04 Ashraf, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
101 RELEASED SEP 04 Irfan, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
102 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mohammed, Nag (China) Website Extras 1, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News and Good News for the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
103 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Switzerland), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mahmud, Arkin (China) Website Extras 1, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo
104 RELEASED MAR 04 Achezkai, Mohammed Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 15
105 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Saigh, Adnan (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
106 RELEASED JUL 03 Raz, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
107 RELEASED OCT 02 Barakzai, Jan Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 9, mentioned in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One)
108 RELEASED DEC 07 Aliza, Abdul Rauf (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
109 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Rabiesh, Yusef (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 8
110 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmed, Rhuhel (UK) Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
111 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Tayeea, Ali (Iraq) Chapter 2, A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks
112 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Oshan, Abdul Aziz (Al Khaldi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 8, also see Guantánamo’s Library: Adding Insult to Injury
113 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmed, Sarfaraz (Pakistan) No information
114 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Shehri, Yousef (Al Shihri) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 9, 19, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
115 Naser, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 1
116 RELEASED MAR 04 Abulwance, Yamatolah (Afghanistan) No information
117 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2010) Al Warafi, Mukhtar (Yemen) Chapter 2, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, With Regrets, Judge Allows Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo of a Medic
118 RELEASED DEC 06 Kahm, Abdul Rahman Juma (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
119 RELEASED MAR 03 Shah, Suleiman (Afghanistan) Chapter 3
120 RELEASED JUL 05 Khan, Rabel (Habib Rasool) (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
121 RELEASED DEC 06 Mohammed, Salman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
122 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Atabi, Bijad (Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
123 RELEASED FEB 06 Hassan, Muhammad Hussein Ali (Morocco) Website Extras 1
124 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Janan Taus (Afghanistan) No information
125 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Zahrani, Fawaz (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
126 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Shihri, Salim (Salam Abdullah Said) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
127 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Shili, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
128 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09), LOST APPEAL (Jan 2010) Al Bihani, Ghaleb (Yemen) Website Extras 1, How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners
129 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Marwai, Toufig (Yemen) Website Extras 1
130 RELEASED NOV 07 Sultan, Faha (Fahd al-Osaimi al-Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
131 Ben Kend, Salem (Yemen) Website Extras 1
132 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Shehri, Abdul Salam (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
133 RELEASED JUL 04 Ouzar, Mohammed (Morocco) No information
Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
134 RELEASED JUL 03 Safollah, Ghaser Zaban (Pakistan) No information
135 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Ejaz Ahmad (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
136 RELEASED NOV 03 Mohammad, Tarik (Pakistan) No information
137 RELEASED SEP 04 Tariq, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
138 RELEASED SEP 04 Ayubi, Salahuddin (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
139 RELEASED NOV 03 Mansoor, Hafiz Liaqat (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
140 RELEASED SEP 04 Ali, Said Saim (Pakistan) No information
141 RELEASED SEP 04 Ayub, Haseeb (Pakistan) No information
142 RELEASED SEP 04 Fazaldad (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
143 RELEASED OCT 02 Saghir, Mohammad (Pakistan) Chapters 3, 8, 11
144 RELEASED SEP 04 Ilyas, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
145 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Hamood Ullah (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
146 RELEASED JUL 03 Khan, Muhammed Kashif (Pakistan) No information
147 RELEASED SEP 04 Raza, Mohammed Arshad (Pakistan) No information
Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 01)
148 RELEASED DEC 09 (extradited to Italian custody) Bin Hamida, Adil Mabrouk (Adel Ben Mabrouk Boughanmi) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
149 RELEASED NOV 08 Hamdan, Salim (Yemen) Chapters 6, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION (five-month sentence, Aug 08), also see Military judge dashes hopes that Guantánamo detainees have rights as Prisoners of War, Guantánamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?, Guantánamo’s Shambolic Trials, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Guantánamo trial delayed, Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo Trial, A critical overview of Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo trial and the dubious verdict, The End of Guantánamo, Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions
150 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Boujaadia, Said (Morocco) Chapter 7, also see Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
151 RELEASED DEC 06 Hashem, Mubarak (Bangladesh) Website Extras 9
152 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Khalaqi, Asim (Yemen) Chapter 6
153 Suleiman, Fayiz (Yemen) Website Extras 5
154 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Awfi, Mazin (Al Oufi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
155 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Hubayshi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 7, also see The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubyadah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts
156 Latif, Adnan Farhan Abdul (Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd) (Yemen) Website Extras 5
157 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Malki, Said (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
158 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Harbi, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
159 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Noaimi, Abdullah (Bahrain) Chapters 7, 8, 19
160 RELEASED OCT 06 Benmoujan, Mohammed (Morocco) Chapter 7
161 RELEASED JUL 04 Benchellali, Mourad (France) Chapters 7, 8
162 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Tays, Ali (Yemen) Chapter 6
163 Al Qadasi, Khalid (Yemen) Website Extras 5
164 RELEASED JUL 04 Kanouni, Imad (France) Chapter 7
165 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Busayss, Said (Yemen) Chapter 6
166 RELEASED JUL 04 Ghezali, Mehdi (Sweden) Chapters 7, 15
167 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Raimi, Ali Yahya (Yemen) Website Extras 5
168 CLEARED (under Bush) Hakimi, Adel (Hakeemy) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantanamo, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians
169 RELEASED NOV 03 Al Amrani, Ayman (Jordan) No information
170 Masud, Sharaf (Yemen) Website Extras 5
171 Alahdal, Abu Bakr (Yemen) Website Extras 5
172 RELEASED SEP 07 Mohammed, Ali Mohammed Nasir (Yemen) Website Extras 5
173 RELEASED MAR 05 Khalid, Redouane (France) Chapter 7
174 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Dec 08) Sliti, Hisham (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians
175 RELEASED JAN 09 Said, Hassan Mujamma Rabai (Algeria) Website Extras 6
176 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Qurayshi, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
177 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Jutayli, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
178 Baada, Tareq (Yemen) Chapter 20, Website Extras 5
179 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Juaid, Abdul Rahman (Al Juad) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
180 NO ISN (possibly Ibn Al Shaykh Al Libi, rendered for torture in Egypt, who died in a Libyan prison in May 2009; see Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two), Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney’s Torture and Lies, Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record; also see 212, 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
181 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Shammari, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
182 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Jabri, Bandar (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
183 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Jayfi, Issam (Yemen) Chapter 6
184 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Omairah, Othman (Yemen) Website Extras 5
185 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Asiri, Turki (Al Jabali Asseri) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
186 RELEASED FEB 07 Balkhair, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
187 RELEASED NOV 07 Maqram, Murtadha (Makram) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, Website Extras 4
188 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Fayfi, Jabir (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
189 Gherebi, Salem (Libya) Website Extras 6
190 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Obama) Al Mishad, Sharif (Sherif El Meshad, El Mashad) (Egypt) Website Extras 6, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
191 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Khathami, Saleh (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
192 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Rubeish, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6, also see A Poem from Guantánamo
193 RELEASED DEC 06 Moqbill, Mohsin (Yemen) Chapter 6
194 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Futuri, Mohammed (Libya) Chapter 7 (footnote)
195 Al Shumrani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
196 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Amri, Musa (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
197 Chekhouri, Younis (Shokhuri, Chekkouri) (Morocco) Chapters 7, 15, also discussed in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
198 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Asadi, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
199 DIED IN GUANTANAMO MAY 07 Al Amri, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6, also see Suicide at Guantánamo: a response to the US military’s allegations that Abdul Rahman al-Amri was a member of al-Qaeda, The Forgotten Anniversary of a Guantánamo Suicide, Forgotten: The Second Anniversary Of A Guantánamo Suicide, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, The Third Anniversary of a Death in Guantánamo
200 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qahtani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
201 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Tourson, Ahmad (Ahmad Abdulahad) (China) Chapter 2, also see From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
202 Bin Atef, Mahmoud (Yemen) Website Extras 1
203 RELEASED FEB 04 Gumarov, Ravil (Russia) Chapters 2, 18
204 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Zahrani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 1
205 RELEASED JAN 05 Al Mutairi, Nasser (Kuwait) Chapter 2
206 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Yamani, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 2
207 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Harbi, Mishal (Alhabiri) (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 19, also see Saudi who suffered brain damage in Guantánamo gets married in Medina
208 RELEASED AUG 05 Salehove, Maroof (Tajikistan) Website Extras 7
209 RELEASED FEB 04 Khazhiyev, Shamil (Russia) Chapter 2
210 RELEASED JUL 03 Iqbal, Faik (Pakistan) No information
211 RELEASED FEB 04 Ogidov, Ruslan (Russia) Chapter 2
212 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, above, and 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 01)
213 RELEASED OCT 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 09) Al Mutairi, Khalid (Kuwait) Chapter 7, also see Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Charity Worker, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
214 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Qurashi, Mohammed (Al Kurash, Al Kurashi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
215 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Sharif, Fahd (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
216 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Kabi, Jamil (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
217 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Shammeri, Abdul Aziz (Kuwait) Chapter 7
218 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Fouzan, Fahd (Al Fawzan) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
219 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Razak, Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (and also see 201)
220 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Ajmi, Abdullah (Kuwait) Chapter 12, also see Identification of ex-Guantánamo suicide bomber unleashes Pentagon propaganda
221 RELEASED JUN 07 Salih, Ali Mohsen (Yemen) Website Extras 5
222 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Kunduzi, Umar (Afghanistan-Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
223 Sulayman, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Chapter 6
224 Muhammad, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 5
225 RELEASED JUN 07 Al Shulan, Hani (Yemen) Website Extras 5
226 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Nurr, Anwar (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
227 RELEASED OCT 06 Al Balushi, Salah (Bahrain) Chapter 7
228 RELEASED SEP 06 Al Kandari, Abdullah Kamel (Kuwait) Chapter 7
229 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Daihani, Mohammed Fenaitel (Kuwait) Chapter 7
230 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Jad’an, Humud (Al Jadani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
231 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Sharekh, Abdulhadi (Al Sharakh) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
232 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Al Odah, Fawzi (Al Awda) (Kuwait) Chapters 7, 8, also see Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: who are Fawzi al-Odah and Lakhdar Boumediene?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, Obama Drops Plan For New “Indefinite Detention” Policy At Guantánamo, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
233 Salih, Abdul (Yemen) Website Extras 5
234 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Zahrani, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
235 Jarabh, Saeed (Yemen) Chapter 19
236 RELEASED MAR 05 Ben Mustafa, Khaled (France) Chapters 7, 8, 15
237 RELEASED FEB 06 Laalami, Mohammed (Morocco) Website Extras 2
238 CLEARED (under Bush) Hadjarab, Nabil (Algeria-France) Website Extras 2, Guantánamo’s refugees
239 CLEARED (under Bush) Aamer, Shaker (UK-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 12, 19, also see Shaker Aamer, a South London Man in Guantánamo: The Children Speak, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo’s ridiculous underwear saga, Clive Stafford Smith at Guantánamo: how the immoral became mundane, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, Forgotten in Guantánamo: British resident Shaker Aamer, UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Court Orders Release Of Torture Evidence In The Case Of Shaker Aamer, The Last British Resident In Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer: UK Government Drops Opposition To Release Of Torture Evidence, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Daughter Delivers Letter to Gordon Brown (Video), Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Shaker Aamer’s Wife Speaks: “Since he has been away there is no colour in life”, Torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer’s Lawyers Speak, As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time for Shaker Aamer to Come Home from Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, 98 MPs Who Supported Human Rights While Countering Terrorism, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, New letter to William Hague, asking him to secure the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, New letter to MPs asking them to oppose the use of secret evidence in UK courts, and to support the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, Campaigners Ask David Cameron to Secure Return to UK of Shaker Aamer, the Last British Resident in Guantánamo, An open letter to David Cameron demanding the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK
240 Al Shabli, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
241 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180 and 212, above, and 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
242 Qasim, Khaled (Yemen) Website Extras 2
243 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Utaybi, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
244 Nassir, Abdul Latif (Morocco) Chapter 4, also mentioned in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo
245 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Sulami, Haji Hajaj (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
246 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Khalifa, Sheikh Salman (Bahrain) Chapter 7
247 RELEASED SEP 04 Fiyatullah, Kay (Pakistan) No information
248 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Oshan, Saleh (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
249 Al Hamiri, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
250 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Anvar, Hassan (Anwar Hassan) (China) Website Extras 6, The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (also see 201)
251 CLEARED (under Bush) Bin Salem, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
252 RELEASED MAY 2010 (in Spain), WON HABEAS PETITION (Mar 09) Basardah, Yasim (Yemen) Chapter 6, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame
253 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Ansari, Faris Muslim (Afghanistan-Saudi) Chapter 6, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
254 Khenaina, Mohammed (Yemen) Website Extras 5
255 WON HABEAS PETITION (Dec 09) Hatim, Said (Yemen) Website Extras 5, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit, Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantánamo, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
256 RELEASED DEC 09 Al Radai, Riyad (Al Haj, Al Haf) (Yemen) Website Extras 5
257 CLEARED (under Obama) Abdulayev, Omar (Tajikistan) Website Extras 9, Obama’s Failure To Deliver Justice To The Last Tajik In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
258 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Nukhaylan, Nayif (Nayif Ibrahim) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
259 CLEARED (under Bush) Hintif, Fadil (Yemen) Website Extras 5
260 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Adil, Ahmed (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania
261 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Dossari, Juma (Bahrain-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 19
262 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Harbi, Abdullah Al Wafi (Al Wafti) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
263 Sultan, Ashraf (Libya) Chapter 7 (footnote)
264 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Baddah, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
265 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Harbi, Tariq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
266 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Ghanimi, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
267 RELEASED FEB 04 Ahmed, Hamed Abderrahman (Spain) Chapters 7, 11
268 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Hataybi, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
269 RELEASED JUN 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jan 09) El Gharani, Mohammed (Chad-Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12, also see Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child: the sad story of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s ridiculous underwear saga, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child, Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner, Mohammed El-Gharani, Is Imprisoned In Chad, Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, speaks to al-Jazeera, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Stranded In Chad: Mohammed El-Gharani, Once Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?
270 RELEASED APR 05 Zemmori, Mosa Zi (Belgium) Chapter 7 (footnote)
271 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Nasir, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
272 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Bahuth, Ziyad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
273 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Nasir, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
274 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Samiri, Bader (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
275 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abbas, Yusef (Abdusabar) (China) Chapter 7, also see A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (and also see 201)
276 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Basit, Akhdar Qasem (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania
277 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Switzerland), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mahnut, Bahtiyar (China) Website Extras 6, Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men, Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo (also see 201)
278 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mamut, Abdul Helil (Khalil Manut, Abdul Nasser, Abdulnassir) (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
279 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Ayub, Haji Mohammed (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
280 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Khalik, Saidullah (Khalid) (China) Website Extras 6, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
281 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Ghappar, Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see A Chinese Muslim’s desperate plea from Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (and also see 201)
282 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulghupur, Hajiakbar (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
283 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania) Qassim, Abu Bakker (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, A Letter To Barack Obama From A Guantánamo Uighur, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
284 RELEASED AUG 08 Al Qadir, Mohammed (Algeria) Chapter 7
285 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulquadirakhun, Abdullah (Abdulla Abdulqadir, Jalal Jalaladin) (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (and also see 201)
286 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Jahdali, Ziad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
287 RELEASED SEP 05 El Leithi, Sami (Egypt) Chapters 7, 15
288 CLEARED (under Bush) Saib, Motai (Algeria) Chapter 7
289 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdurehim, Dawut (China) Chapter 7, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (also see 201)
290 CLEARED (under Bush) Belbacha, Ahmed (UK-Algeria) Chapter 7, also see Return to torture: act now for Ahmed Belbacha, a British resident in Guantánamo, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha: UK government explains why it will not act to prevent his return to torture, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, Repatriation as Russian Roulette, Treachery at Guantánamo, Guantánamo’s refugees, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Bringing Guantánamo To New York, Urgent appeal for the UK to offer refuge to Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian in Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, New letter to William Hague, asking him to secure the return from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer
291 RELEASED NOV 03 Celik Gogus, Yuksel (Turkey) Chapter 18
292 RELEASED AUG 08 Feghoul, Abdulli (Algeria) Chapter 7
293 RELEASED MAY 06 (in Albania), GRANTED ASYLUM IN SWEDEN (Feb 09) Hakim, Adel Abdul (China) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, Former Guantánamo detainee seeks asylum in Sweden, Adel Abdul Hakim, the asylum seeker from Guantánamo: a transcript of Sabin Willett’s recent speech in Stockholm, Support for ex-Guantánamo detainee’s Swedish asylum claim, Former Guantánamo prisoner denied asylum in Sweden, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs
294 RELEASED JUL 04 Mazouz, Muhammed (Morocco) Chapter 12
295 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Abdulahat, Emam (Salahidin Abdulahad, Abdul Semet) (China) Website Extras 6, Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
296 RELEASED APR 05 Sen, Mesut (Belgium) Chapter 7
297 RELEASED NOV 03 Sen, Ibrahim Shafir (Turkey) Website Extras 6
298 RELEASED APR 05 Uyar, Salih (Turkey) Website Extras 6
299 RELEASED SEP 04 Raza, Abid (Pakistan) Chapter 9
300 RELEASED SEP 04 Sultan, Zahid (Pakistan) No information
301 RELEASED SEP 04 Hafez, Khalil Rahman (Pakistan) Chapter 9 (footnote), also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
302 RELEASED SEP 04 Ijaz, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
303 RELEASED JUL 03 Ahmed, Ali (Pakistan) No information
304 RELEASED JUL 03 Ansar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
305 RELEASED SEP 04 Mohammed, Hanif (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
306 RELEASED SEP 05 Zaeef, Mullah Abdul Salam (Afghanistan) Chapters 12, 19
307 Al Tumani, Abdul Nasir (Khantumani) (Syria) Chapter 7
308 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Nusayri, Adil Uqla Hassan (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
309 Abdal Sattar, Muieen (UAE) Website Extras 6
310 Ameziane, Djamel (Algeria) Chapter 7
311 WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 09) Bin Mohammed, Farhi Said (Farhi Saeed) (Algeria) Chapter 7, also see Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere), How Binyam Mohammed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US Court, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
312 RELEASED AUG 09 (in Portugal) Al Tumani, Mohammed (Khantumani) (Syria) Chapters 7, 8, 15, also see Guantánamo Whistleblowers: Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is not the first insider to condemn the kangaroo courts
313 RELEASED MAR 03 Mirmuhammed, Sherghulab (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
314 RELEASED MAR 03 Khan, Ezat (Afghanistan) No information
315 RELEASED MAR 03 Must, Yarass Ali (Afghanistan) No information
316 RELEASED JUL 03 Ghuladkhan (Afghanistan) No information
317 RELEASED AUG 09 (in Portugal) Dokhan, Moammar Badawi (Syria) Website Extras 6
318 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Taibi, Rami (Al Juaid) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
319 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Subaie, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
320 RELEASED JUN 09 (in Bermuda), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Parhat, Huzaifa (Ablikim Turahun) (China) Website Extras 6, Six Years Late, Court Throws Out Guantánamo Case, Guantánamo as Alice in Wonderland, An interview with Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham (Part Two), Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos, Three Uighurs Talk About Chinese Interrogation At Guantánamo, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask UK to Give Them Passports (also see 201)
321 Kuman, Ahmed Yaslam Said (Yemen) Website Extras 2
322 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Barakat, Khalid (Al Sharif) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
323 RELEASED FEB 04 Abderrahmane, Slimane Hadj (Denmark) Chapters 7, 8
324 Al Sabri, Mashur (Yemen) Website Extras 5
325 RELEASED JUL 04 Sassi, Nizar (France) Chapter 7
326 Ajam, Ahmed (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
327 Shaaban, Ali Hussein (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
328 WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Mohamed, Ahmed (China) Website Extras 6, The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (also see 201)
329 Al Hamawe, Abu Omar (Syria) Chapter 7, mentioned in Who is the Syrian Released from Guantánamo to Bulgaria?
330 RELEASED MAY 2010 (in Bulgaria) Mouhammed, Maasoum (Syria) Chapter 7
331 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Shurafa, Ayman (Saudi Arabia-Palestine) Chapter 6, mentioned in Guantanamo’s refugees
332 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Tayabi, Abdullah (Bandar Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
333 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Harbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
334 RELEASED JUL 08 Al Marri, Jarallah (Qatar) Chapter 18 (footnote), also see Ex-Guantánamo prisoner refused entry into UK, held in deportation centre, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, and articles telling the story of Jarallah’s brother Ali: Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers in Case of US “Enemy Combatant” Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri, Return To The Law: Obama Orders Guantánamo Closure, Torture Ban and Review of US “Enemy Combatant” Case, Ending The Cruel Isolation Of Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant”, Why The US Under Obama Is Still A Dictatorship, Dictatorial Powers Unchallenged As US “Enemy Combatant” Pleads Guilty, Ali al-Marri’s Statement In Court, October 30, 2009, Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant,” Receives Eight-Year Sentence
335 RELEASED JUN 09 Mohammed, Kahlid Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
336 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Frih, Majid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
337 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Bidna, Saad (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
338 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Omar, Wasim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
339 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Morghi, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
340 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Dubaikey, Bessam (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
341 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Farha, Said Ali (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
342 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Qurbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
343 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Rushaydan, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
344 RELEASED JUN 06 Al Qa’id, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 6
345 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Haj, Sami (Sudan) Chapters 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, also see Sami al-Haj: the banned torture pictures of a journalist in Guantánamo, Clive Stafford Smith at Guantánamo: how the immoral became mundane, A letter from Guantánamo, Sami al-Haj speaks, appeals for fellow prisoners in Guantánamo, Sami al-Haj: “Torture is Terrorism”, The journey from Guantánamo: one final indignity for Sami al-Haj, An interview with Sami al-Haj, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London
346 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Shaibani, Said (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4
Afghans captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01)
347 RELEASED JUL 03 Mohammadullah (Afghanistan) No information
348 RELEASED MAR 04 Zumarikourt, Aziz Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
349 RELEASED OCT 02 Sadiq, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10 (he was 88 years old), mentioned in The Guantánamo Files: AlterNet interviews Andy Worthington
350 RELEASED MAR 03 Ehsanullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 8
351 RELEASED MAR 04 Ghofoor, Abdullah (Afghanistan) No information
352 RELEASED NOV 03 Sayed, Abdul Hadi (Afghanistan) No information
353 RELEASED JUL 03 Waheed, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
354 RELEASED NOV 03 Ghani, Nabu Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
355 RELEASED MAR 03 Malang, Nassir (Afghanistan) No information
356 RELEASED SEP 02 Razaq, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapters 8, 14 (schizophrenic), mentioned in The Guantánamo Files: AlterNet interviews Andy Worthington
357 RELEASED APR 05 Rahman, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 3
358 RELEASED MAR 03 Sargidene, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 9
359 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
360 RELEASED MAR 03 Edmondada, Abdullah (Afghanistan) No information
361 RELEASED MAR 03 Abdul Rahman, Murtazah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
362 RELEASED MAR 03 Torjan, Shaibjan (Afghanistan) No information
363 RELEASED MAR 03 Ghafoor, Shai Jahn (Afghanistan) No information
364 RELEASED MAY 03 Kakar, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
365 RELEASED JUL 03 Layar, Sabit (Afghanistan) No information
366 RELEASED MAR 04 Khan, Hazrat Sangin (Afghanistan) No information
367 RELEASED MAY 03 Yaqub, Mohammed Yusif (allegedly the alias of Taliban leader Mullah Shahzada) (Afghanistan) Chapter 9, also see If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 01) and held in Sheberghan until early 02
368 RELEASED SEP 07 Hawsawi, Amran (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 12
369 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia) CLEARED (under Bush) El Gazzar, Adel Fattough Ali (Egypt) Chapters 12, 19, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
370 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Hizani, Abd (Abdullah Al Zahrani) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
371 RELEASED JUL 04 Yadel, Brahim (France) Chapter 7
372 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Shihri, Sa’id (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 7
373-432 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
433 RELEASED JUN 09 Sadkhan, Jawad (Iraq) Chapter 15, mentioned in Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released From Guantánamo
434 Al Shamyri, Mustafa (Yemen) Website Extras 1
435 RELEASED JAN 09 Said, Hassan Abdul (Iraq) Website Extras 8
436 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Usaymi, Nayif (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
437 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Nasir, Faizal (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
438 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Khalif, Hani (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7, Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
439 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Ghatani, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 7
440 Bawazir, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 9
441 Al Zahri, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 7, Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
442 RELEASED JUL 03 Maula, Abdul (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
443 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Juma (Afghanistan) No information
444 RELEASED MAY 03 Wali, Jihan (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
445-451 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
452 RELEASED SEP 09 (in Ireland) Jabbarov, Oybek (Abu Bakir Jamaludinovich) (Uzbekistan) Chapter 10, also see Guantánamo’s refugees, At Christmas, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Is Reunited With His Family
453 RELEASED MAR 04 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
454 RELEASED MAR 04 Adam, Mohammed Sadiq (Uzbekistan) No information, probably Afghan Uzbek
455 PROBABLY RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Switzerland) CLEARED (under Bush) Hamidullah, Ali Sher (Uzbekistan) Website Extras 8
456 RELEASED MAR 04 Hamdullah (Afghanistan) No information
457 RELEASED APR 05 Gul, Mohammad (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
458 RELEASED OCT 06 Sarajuddin, Abib (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
459 RELEASED APR 05 Zaman, Gul (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
460 RELEASED FEB 06 Zaman, Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
461 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qyati, Abdul Rahman (Yemen) Website Extras 8
462-488 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
489 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Belgium), WON HABEAS PETITION (Jun 09) Al Ginco, Abdul Rahim (Janko) (Syria) Chapters 10, 19, mentioned in Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released From Guantánamo, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now!, Why Did It Take So Long To Order The Release From Guantánamo Of An Al-Qaeda Torture Victim?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, “Respect My Anonymity,” Says Guantánamo Prisoner Released in Belgium
490 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Harith, Jamal (UK) Chapter 10
491 RELEASED JUN 06 Turkistani, Saddiq Ahmed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 10
492 RELEASED FEB 04 Vakhitov, Aryat (Russia) Chapters 8, 10, 18
493 RELEASED SEP 07 Bukhari, Abdul Hakim (Bukhary) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 10
494 RELEASED AUG 06 Noorallah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
495 RELEASED SEP 04 Rafiq, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
496 RELEASED NOV 07 Rahman, Fizaulla (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
Mostly captured in Jalalabad or in the vicinity of Tora Bora (Dec 01)
497 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Subii, Nasir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
498 Haidel, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 8, Website Extras 2
499 RELEASED JUL 04 Chekhouri, Redouane (Morocco) No information
500 RELEASED MAR 04 Turkash, Emdash Abdullah (Turkmenistan) No information
501 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Otaibi, Nawaf (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
502 CLEARED (under Bush) Ourgy, Abdul (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
503 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Zuba, Saleh (Yemen) Chapter 4
504 RELEASED SEP 04 Amin, Aminulla (Pakistan) No information
505 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Muri, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
506 Al Dhuby, Khalid (Yemen) Website Extras 2
507 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Anazi, Sultan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
508 Al Rabie, Salman (Yemen) Chapter 4 (footnote)
509 Khusruf, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapters 4, 16
510 RELEASED DEC 09 (extradited to Italian custody) Nasseri, Riyad (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
511 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Nahdi, Sulaiman (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
512 RELEASED JUL 03 Sadik, Mamhud (Mohammed Saduq) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
513 RELEASED DEC 06 Khowlan, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
514 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Anazi, Abdullah (Al Unazi Thani) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
515 RELEASED MAR 04 Ul Haq, Israr (Pakistan) Website Extras 8
516 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Harbi, Ghanim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
517 RELEASED MAY 03 Mohammed, Sultan (Afghanistan) No information
518 RELEASED NOV 03 Akah, Khirullah (Afghanistan) No information
519 POSSIBLY RELEASED DEC 09 Al Quwari, Mahrar (Palestine) Chapter 4, mentioned in More Dubious Charges in the Guantánamo Trials, Guantánamo’s refugees
520 RELEASED MAY 03 Karim, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
521 RELEASED NOV 08 Kerimbakiev, Abdulrahim (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10
522 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Ismail, Yasin (Yemen) Chapter 4, An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition
523 RELEASED MAY 03 Ehssanullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
524 RELEASED SEP 04 Anwar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
525 RELEASED MAR 04 Gul, Ataullah Adam (Afghanistan) No information
526 RELEASED DEC 06 Abahanov, Yakub (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
527 RELEASED SEP 04 Daoud, Mohamman (Afghanistan) Website Extras 2
528 RELEASED DEC 06 Magrupov, Abdullah (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
529 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Bacha (Pakistan) No information
530 RELEASED SEP 04 Gul, Dawd (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
531 RELEASED MAY 03 Hanan, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
532 RELEASED AUG 07 Sharif, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
533 RELEASED JAN 2010 Zumiri, Hassan (Ahcene Zemiri) (Algeria-Canada) Chapter 4
534 RELEASED MAR 04 Dergoul, Tarek (UK) Chapters 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, also see UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues (discussing the prisoners who died in June 2006)
535 El Sawah, Tariq (Al Sawah) (Bosnia-Egypt) Chapter 4, MILITARY COMMISSION
536 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Harbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 8
537 Al Ali, Mahmud (Syria) Website Extras 8
538 RELEASED MAR 04 Alikozi, Amanullah (Afghanistan) No information
539 RELEASED SEP 04 Allah, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
540 RELEASED SEP 04 Omar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
541 RELEASED SEP 04 Noman, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
542 RELEASED MAR 04 Abas, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
543 RELEASED MAR 04 Mert, Nuri (Turkey) Chapter 10
544 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212 and 241, above, and 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
545 RELEASED JUL 03 Urayman, Sajin (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
546 RELEASED JUL 05 Muhibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
547 RELEASED SEP 04 Mohammed, Wali (Afghanistan) No information
548 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241 and 544, above, and 583 and 697-8, below)
549 Al Dayi, Omar (Yemen) Website Extras 2
550 Zaid, Walid (Yemen) Chapter 4
551 RELEASED DEC 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09) Al Rabiah, Fouad (Al Rabia) (Kuwait) Chapters 4, 18, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden, A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
552 Al Kandari, Faiz (Kuwait) Chapter 4, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Story Of Fayiz Al-Kandari, Rubbing Salt in Guantánamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detention, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
553 Al Baidhani, Abdul Khaliq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4 (footnote)
554 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Assani, Fehmi (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
555 RELEASED OCT 06 Muhammed, Abdul Majid (Iran) Chapter 10, also see Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Nov 01-Feb 02)
556 RELEASED MAY 08 Khan, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 15, Website Extras 9
557 RELEASED SEP 07 Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian (Libya) Website Extras 9
558 RELEASED JAN 05 Begg, Moazzam (UK) Chapters 12, 14, 15, also see Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, Moazzam Begg on Ramadan and Eid ul-Fitr in Bagram and Guantánamo, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International, Moazzam Begg’s dignified explanation of why he is not attending Amnesty’s screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Sunday Times misrepresents views of Amnesty’s Sam Zarifi, Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Dangerous Game: A Reply to Gita Sahgal and Her Supporters
559 RELEASED SEP 04 Bader, Bader Zaman (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
560 Mohammed, Haji Wali (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
561 RELEASED APR 05 Muslim Dost, Abdul Rahim (Afghanistan) Chapter 12, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Poetry and politics at Guantánamo: an interview with Marc Falkoff
562 RELEASED AUG 06 Peerzai, Ehsanullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
563 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Sohab Mahud (Iraq) No information
564 Bin Amer, Jalal (Yemen) Chapter 12
565 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Mousa, Abdul Hakim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
566 CLEARED (under Bush) Qattaa, Mansoor (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
567 RELEASED DEC 09 Barre, Mohammed Sulaymon (Mohamed Saleban Bare) (Somalia) Chapter 12, also see “Hell on Earth”: Released Somali Speaks about Guantánamo
568 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Zamel, Adel (Kuwait) Chapters 11, 12, 14, 19
569 Al Shorabi, Zohair (Yemen) Website Extras 9
570 Al Qurashi, Sabri (Yemen) Website Extras 9
571 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Azmi, Sa’ad (Kuwait) Chapter 12
572 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Zabe, Salah (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
573 RELEASED FEB 04 Akhmyarov, Rustam (Russia) Chapter 18
574 Al Wady, Hamoud (Yemen) Chapter 12
575 Al Azani, Saad (Yemen) Chapter 12
576 Bin Hamdoun, Zahir (Yemen) Website Extras 9
577 RELEASED DEC 09 Mar’i, Jamal (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
578 Al Suadi, Abdul Aziz (Yemen) Chapters 12, 19
579 Khairkhwa, Khairullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
580 RELEASED JUL 03 Ahmad, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
581 RELEASED MAR 05 Rahman, Saeed Abdur (Pakistan) Chapter 12 (footnote), also see Website Extras 9
582 RELEASED JUL 03 Noorani, Abdul Rahman (Afghanistan) Chapter 15
583 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241, 544 and 548, above, and 697-8, below)
584 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Noori, Adel (China) Website Extras 9, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
585 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Umar, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) No information
586 RELEASED AUG 05 Khamisan, Karama (Yemen) Chapters 12, 14, 15
587 RELEASED JUL 04 Benchekroun, Brahim (Morocco) Chapters 12, 14
588 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Utaybi, Mani (Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
589 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Asmar, Khalid (Jordan) Chapter 12
590 RELEASED APR 07 Errachidi, Ahmed (Morocco-UK) Chapters 12, 19, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Two Americas, both unjust, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov 01-May 02)
591 RELEASED OCT 06 Esmhatulla, Qari (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (footnote), also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
592-622 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
623 RELEASED MAR 04 Bameri, Bakhtiar (Iran) Chapter 14
624 RELEASED NOV 03 Mehmood, Majid (Pakistan) Website Extras 11
625 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
626 RELEASED JUL 03 Ullah, Noor Habib (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
627 RELEASED DEC 09 Batarfi, Ayman (Yemen) Chapter 14, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today
628 RELEASED MAY 03 Alizai, Nematuallah Sahib Khan (Afghanistan) No information
629 RELEASED MAY 03 Alikhan, Mahngur (Afghanistan) No information
630 RELEASED JUL 03 Rahmad, Nisar (Afghanistan) No information
631 RELEASED APR 05 Wazir, Padsha (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
632 RELEASED MAY 03 Shah, Rostum (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
633 RELEASED JUL 03 Farooq, Muhammed Naim (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
634 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Ali (Pakistan) No information
635 RELEASED JUL 03 Akhber, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
636 RELEASED JUL 03 Gul, Nathi (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
637 RELEASED NOV 03 Insanullah (Afghanistan) No information
638 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Badshah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
639 RELEASED MAR 04 Bismillah (Afghanistan) No information
640 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Niaz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
641 RELEASED JUL 04 Ergashev, Abdul-Karim (Abdulrahmon Rajabov) (Tajikistan) Chapter 19, also see Tajikistan: ex-Guantánamo prisoner plans to sue George Bush
642 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamidullah (Afghanistan) No information
643 RELEASED MAY 03 Tahir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
644 RELEASED MAR 03 Muhammed, Mirza (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
645 RELEASED MAR 03 Kabel, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
646 RELEASED JUL 03 Asekzai, Azizullah (Afghanistan) No information
647 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Shamaree, Zaban (Al Shammari) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
648 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Tamimi, Haydar Jabbar Hafez (Iraq) No information
649 RELEASED MAR 05 Patel, Mushtaq Ali (France) Chapter 14
650 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Qahtani, Jabir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
651 RELEASED NOV 07 Abu Kabir, Usama (Osama) (Jordan) Website Extras 11
652 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Qahtani, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 14
653 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Karim, Arkan (Iraq) Chapter 14, also see Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low
654 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama) Al Ghizzawi, Abdul Hamid (Libya) Chapters 14, 19, also see The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Horror at Guantánamo, Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer, More Dark Truths from Guantánamo, as Five Innocent Men Released
655 RELEASED FEB 06 Khudaidad (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
656 RELEASED NOV 03 Baqi, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
657 RELEASED OCT 02 Mohammed, Haji Faiz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (he was 70 years old)
658 RELEASED MAR 03 Bismillah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
659 RELEASED DEC 07 Sameur, Abdulnour (Abdennour) (UK-Algeria) Chapters 7, 8, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result
660 RELEASED JUN 07 Lagha, Lotfi Bin Swei (Lofti Lagha) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, “I’m innocent,” says Guantánamo detainee Lotfi Lagha, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in Tunisia
661 RELEASED JAN 05 Habib, Mamdouh (Australia) Chapters 16, 19, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
662 RELEASED NOV 07 Sulayman, Ahmed (Jordan) Chapter 12
663 RELEASED JUL 03 El-Weleli, Reda Fadel (Egypt) Arbitrarily imprisoned for several years on his return to Egypt
664 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Uwaydah, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
665 RELEASED MAR 04 Eideov, Sadee (Tajikistan) No information
666 RELEASED NOV 03 Hezbullah (Afghanistan) No information
667 RELEASED JUL 03 Sarwar, Kari Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
668 RELEASED MAR 04 Andarr, Abdul Al Hameed (Afghanistan) No information
669 RELEASED JUN 09 Zuhair, Ahmed Zaid Salim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see Guantánamo’s Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home
670 RELEASED NOV 07 Hekmat, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
671 RELEASED MAR 03 Abassin, Said (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
672 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Asam, Zakirjan (Russia) Chapter 14
673 RELEASED MAR 03 Khan, Alif (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
674 RELEASED FEB 04 Ishmuradov, Timur (Russia) Chapters 14, 18
675 CLEARED (under Bush) Kasimbekov, Kamalludin (Uzbekistan) Website Extras 11
676 RELEASED AUG 05 Anwarkurd, Mohammed (Iran) Website Extras 11
677 RELEASED NOV 03 Wazir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
678 RELEASED JUN 07 Mahdi, Fawaz (Yemen) Chapter 14
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Mar-Jul 02)
679 RELEASED DEC 09 Tahir, Mohammed (Tahar, Taher) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
680 Hassan, Emad (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
681 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010), CLEARED (under Bush and Obama) Hassen, Mohammed (Mohammed Hassan Odaini) (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo, Obama’s Moral Bankruptcy Regarding Torture
682 Al Sharbi, Ghassan (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 13, 19, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), also see Doing The Right Thing, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
683 RELEASED DEC 09 Ahmed, Fayad Yahya (Al Rami) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
684 Tahamuttan, Mohammed (Palestine) Website Extras 10
685 Ali, Abdelrazak (Abdullah Azak) (Algeria) Website Extras 10
686 Hakim, Abdel (Yemen) Chapter 13
687 RELEASED JUN 09 Al Noofayaee, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
688 Ahmed, Fahmi (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
689 Salam, Mohamed (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
690 Qader, Ahmed Abdul (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
691 Al Zarnuki, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 13
692 RELEASED SEP 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (May 09) Ahmed, Alla Ali Bin Ali (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Judge Condemns “Mosaic” Of Guantánamo Intelligence, And Unreliable Witnesses, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?
693 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Salami, Ali Abdullah Ahmed (Salah Ahmed al-Salami) (Yemen) Chapters 13, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
694 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Barhoumi, Sufyian (Algeria) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
695 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Abu Bakr, Omar (Omar Mohammed Khalifh) (Libya) Chapter 12, Judge Denies Habeas Petition of an Ill and Abused Libyan in Guantánamo
696 Al Qahtani, Jabran (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
697-698 NO ISN (probably Omar Ghramesh and an unnamed teenager, captured with Abu Zubaydah and rendered to Syria; also see 180, 212, 241, 544, 548 and 583, above)
699 RELEASED SEP 04 Farhad, Din Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
700 RELEASED MAR 04 Babikir, Mohammed Al Ghazali (Sudan) Chapter 13
701 RELEASED FEB 06 Kiyemba, Jamal (UK-Uganda) Chapters 13, 14
702 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010) Mingazov, Ravil (Russia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Bringing Guantánamo To New York, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
703 RELEASED NOV 08 Ahmed, Labed (Algeria) Chapter 13, also see Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
704 RELEASED NOV 08 Abdallah, Mohammed Hussein (Somalia) Chapter 13
705 RELEASED JUL 08 Hamlili, Mustafa (Algeria) Chapter 13
706 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Amin, Mohammed (Mauritania) Chapters 13, 14
707 Muhammed, Noor Uthman (Sudan) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
708 Al Bakush, Ismael (Libya) Website Extras 10
709 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qassim, Abdul Rauf (Libya) Website Extras 10, Return to torture: cleared Guantánamo detainee Abdul Rauf al-Qassim fears return to Libya
710 RELEASED DEC 07 Adem, Salim Muhood (Amir, bin Amir) (Sudan) Chapter 13, also see Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture”
711 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamid, Hassan (Jordan) Chapter 13
712 RELEASED JUL 05 Gadallah, Hammad (Sudan) Chapter 13
713 Al Zahrani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 10
714 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmad, Rashid (Sudan) Chapter 13
715 RELEASED MAR 04 Mustafa, Hussain (Jordan) Chapters 13, 14
716 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Salim, Ala (Egypt) Chapters 13, 19
717 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 09), CLEARED (under Bush) Bin Hadiddi, Abdulhadi (Hedi Hammamy) (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, Farce at Guantánamo, as cleared prisoner’s habeas petition is denied, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame
718 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Boucetta, Fethi (Algeria) Chapter 13
719 RELEASED OCT 08 Al Hassan, Mustafa (Sudan) Website Extras 10
720 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Amir, Amir Yacoub (Yacoub Mahmoud) (Sudan) Website Extras 10
721 RELEASED JUN 07 Omar, Abdullah Bin (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, Out of Guantánamo and into the fire
722 Diyab, Jihad (Syria) Website Extras 10
723-725 NO ISN
726 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Henali, Menhal (Syria) Chapter 13
727 RELEASED DEC 07 Deghayes, Omar (UK-Libya) Chapters 13, 14, 15, also see The testimony of Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request, Spanish drop “inhuman” extradition request for Guantánamo Britons, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, The Guardian interviews Omar Deghayes: “The spirit is what makes us who we are”, White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: Report on screenings in Bradford and Norwich, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: 500 turn up for Kent screening, plus report on SOAS and UCL events, Video: Omar Deghayes Discusses British Complicity in Torture in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantánamo, A warm Scottish welcome for “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, An interview with Omar Deghayes, following Kent screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A session at Glasgow screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” with Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Aamer Anwar, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part One): Omar’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Two): Terry’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
728 Nassir, Jamil (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
729 RELEASED MAR 04 Umarov, Muhibullo (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
730 RELEASED MAR 05 Fauzee, Ibrahim (Maldives) Chapter 13 (footnote)
731 RELEASED MAR 04 Mazharuddin (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
732 RELEASED MAR 04 Shirinov, Abdughaffor (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
Various (some extraordinary renditions)
(Note: from here, ISN numbers become erratic, as prisoners were released in greater numbers from Bagram without being transferred to Guantánamo)
743 RELEASED AUG 08 Madni, Mohammed Saad Iqbal (Pakistan) Chapters 16, 19, also see Revealed: Identity Of Guantánamo Torture Victim Rendered Through Diego Garcia, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
744 CLEARED (under Bush) Naji, Aziz Abdul (Algeria) Chapter 13
753 Zahir, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
757 Abdul Aziz, Ahmed Ould (Mauritania) Website Extras 10
758 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Naely, Abbas (Iraq) Chapters 13, 20
760 WON HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2010) Slahi, Mohamedou Ould (Salahi) (Mauritania) Chapters 16, 20, mentioned in Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, also see Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
761 RELEASED NOV 07 Zeidan, Ibrahim (Libya) Chapters 14, 20
762 Obaidullah (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
766 Khadr, Omar (Canada) Chapters 14, 15, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, The Trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo’s “child soldier”, Guantánamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?, Guantánamo’s Shambolic Trials, Torture allegations dog Guantánamo trials, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, “Screwed up and abused”: Omar Khadr’s Canadian interrogations at Guantánamo, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Omar Khadr: The Guantánamo Files, The Collapse of Omar Khadr’s Guantánamo Trial, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, A Broken Circus: Guantánamo Trials Convene For One Day Of Chaos, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President!, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Failed “War on Terror”, Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo Legacy, The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners
768 Al Darbi, Ahmed Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, The US military’s shameless propaganda over Guantánamo’s 9/11 trials, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Torture in Bagram and Guantánamo: The Declaration of Ahmed al-Darbi, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Jun 02-Aug 03)
782 Gul, Awal (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
783 RELEASED OCT 06 Ullah, Shams (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
798 RELEASED MAY 08 Roohullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
801 RELEASED SEP 07 Melma, Sabar Lal (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
812 RELEASED APR 05 Shah, Qalandar (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
817 RELEASED JAN 05 Belmar, Richard (UK) Chapters 12, 14, also see UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim
818 RELEASED MAR 04 Khan, Haji Osman (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
820 RELEASED NOV 03 Yousef, Mohammed Haji (Afghanistan) No information
822 RELEASED MAR 04 Aslam, Noor (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
826 RELEASED FEB 06 Salaam, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
830 RELEASED NOV 03 Khan, Tila Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
831 RELEASED OCT 06 Khandan, Qadir (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
832 Omari, Mohammed Nabi (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
834 RELEASED APR 05 Shabeen, Naquibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
835 RELEASED APR 05 Rasoul, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
836 Saleh, Ayoub Murshid Ali (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
837 Al Marwalah, Bashir (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
838 Balzuhair, Shawki Awad (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
839 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Dec 09) Al Mudwani, Musab (Musa’ab al-Madhwani)(Yemen) Chapter 16, also see “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
840 Al Maythali, Hail Aziz Ahmed (Yemen) Chapter 16, also see “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
841 Nashir, Said Salih Said (Yemen) Website Extras 11, “Model Prisoner” at Guantánamo, Tortured in the “Dark Prison,” Loses Habeas Corpus Petition
842 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmad, Sultan (Pakistan) The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, no other information
843 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmed, Saghir (Pakistan) No information
845 RELEASED AUG 06 Akitar, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
848 RELEASED AUG 07 Ullah, Amin (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
849 RELEASED OCT 06 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
850 RELEASED DEC 09 Hashim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials
856 RELEASED MAR 04 Barak (Afghanistan) No information
874 RELEASED NOV 07 Nasir, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
886 RELEASED MAY 08 Nasrullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
888 RELEASED MAY 08 Ismatullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
890 RELEASED MAY 08 Sangaryar, Rahmatullah (Afghanistan) Chapters 14, 18
892 RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Hami, Rafiq (Alhami) (Tunisia) Chapter 16, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?
893 Al Bihani, Tawfiq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
894 CLEARED (under Bush) Abdul Rahman, Mohammed (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, Judge prevents innocent Tunisian’s return to torture from Guantánamo
895 NO ISN (almost certainly Dilawar, the innocent Afghan taxi driver who was murdered in Bagram; see Chapter 14 and When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan)
896 RELEASED MAR 04 Parkhudin (Afghanistan) Chapter 14, also see When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan
897 RELEASED MAR 04 Rahim, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 14, also see When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan
898 RELEASED MAR 04 Shah, Zakkim (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
899 Khan, Shawali (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
900 RELEASED AUG 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 09) Jawad, Mohamed (Mohammed) (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 11, Torture allegations dog Guantánamo trials, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials, New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantánamo Trials, Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Condemns “Chaotic” Trials in Case of Teenage Torture Victim, Torture Taints the Case of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamed Jawad, A Child At Guantánamo: The Unending Torment of Mohamed Jawad, Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions, How Judge Huvelle Humiliated The Government In Guantánamo Case, As Judge Orders Release Of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner, Government Refuses To Concede Defeat, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Secure Mohammed Jawad’s Release From Guantánamo, Freed From Guantánamo, Mohammed Jawad Celebrates Eid With His Family, Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Guantánamo, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo, More “Congressional Depravity” on Guantánamo, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
902 RELEASED OCT 06 Mohammed, Taj (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
905 RELEASED DEC 07 El Banna, Jamil (UK-Jordan) Chapter 16, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request, Spanish drop “inhuman” extradition request for Guantánamo Britons, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
906 RELEASED MAR 07 Al Rawi, Bisher (UK-Iraq) Chapter 16, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Hiding Torture And Freeing Binyam Mohamed From Guantánamo, Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
907 RELEASED OCT 06 Rahman, Habib (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
908 RELEASED MAR 04 Muhammed, Peta (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
909 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Mohabet (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, probably a juvenile
910 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Seized with 907-9, 911-14, no other information
911 RELEASED SEP 04 Samad, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, probably a juvenile
912 RELEASED JAN 04 Rahman, Asadullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
913 RELEASED JAN 04 Ullah, Naqib (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
914 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Shardar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
919 RELEASED OCT 06 Ullah, Faiz (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
923 RELEASED DEC 07 Razzaq, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
928 Gul, Khi Ali (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
929 RELEASED APR 05 Qudus, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
930 RELEASED JAN 04 Agha, Mohammed Ismael (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
931 RELEASED SEP 04 Kuchi, Haji Naim (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see Expelled UN official criticizes Afghan policy re: Taliban – and defends ex-Guantánamo detainee
933 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Swar (Afghanistan) Chapter 18, Website Extras 12
934 Ghani, Abdul (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), Website Extras 12
939 RELEASED OCT 08 Ameur, Mammar (Algeria) Chapter 13
940 RELEASED DEC 07 Hamad, Adel Hassan (Sudan) Chapter 13, also see Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture”, Lawrence Wilkerson Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s Lies About Guantánamo
941 RELEASED SEP 07 Din, Juma (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
942 DIED IN GUANTANAMO DEC 07 Hekmati, Abdul Razzaq (Afghanistan) Chapter 18, also see Afghan hero who died in Guantánamo: the background to the story, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
943 RELEASED AUG 07 Ghani, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
944 RELEASED DEC 09 Sharifullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
945 RELEASED SEP 07 Jan, Said Amir (Amir Jan Ghorzang) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?
948 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Anwar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
949 RELEASED DEC 06 Zahor, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
950 RELEASED FEB 06 Khan, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
951 RELEASED SEP 07 Nasir, Allah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
952 RELEASED APR 05 Shahzada, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
953 RELEASED APR 05 Hammidullah (Janat Gul) (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
954 RELEASED DEC 07 Ghafour, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
955 RELEASED NOV 07 Quasam, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
956 RELEASED SEP 07 Ahmad, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
958 RELEASED APR 05 Nasim, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
960 RELEASED SEP 04 Bismaullah (Afghanistan) No information
961 RELEASED AUG 08 Wahab, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
963 RELEASED FEB 06 Bagi, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
964 RELEASED DEC 06 Rahmatullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
965 RELEASED DEC 06 Shah, Hafizullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
966 RELEASED DEC 06 Baridad (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
967 RELEASED NOV 07 Naserullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
968 RELEASED JAN 09 Bismullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
969 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Akhtar (Afghanistan) No information
970 RELEASED SEP 04 Amanullah (Afghanistan) No information
971 RELEASED FEB 06 Yar, Kushky (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
972 RELEASED DEC 06 Mohammed, Alif (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, mentioned in Two Afghans released from Guantánamo: a farmer and a teenager
974 RELEASED SEP 07 Mohibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
975 Karim, Bostan (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, discussed in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part Two)
976 RELEASED DEC 07 Wazir, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
977 RELEASED NOV 07 Yar, Izatullah Nasrat (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
986 RELEASED APR 05 Kandahari, Kako (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
987 RELEASED FEB 07 Ghalib, Haji (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
990 RELEASED NOV 03 Khadr, Abdurahman (Canada) Chapter 14
996 RELEASED MAR 04 Wazir, Haji Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
998 RELEASED MAR 04 Hasan, Mirwais (Afghanistan) No information
1001 RELEASED DEC 07 Khail, Dr Hafizullah Shabaz (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see The Story of Abdullah Mujahid, an Afghan police chief betrayed by the US administration and wrongly sent to Guantánamo
1002 RELEASED DEC 07 Matin, Abdul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1003 RELEASED NOV 07 Ahmed, Shabir (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
1004 RELEASED AUG 07 Yacoub, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 7
1005 RELEASED SEP 04 Ahmad, Bashir (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
1006 RELEASED SEP 04 Irfan, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 7
1007 RELEASED OCT 06 Sadiqi, Abdul Halim (Pakistan) Chapter 15
1008 Sohail, Mohammed Mustafa (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1009 RELEASED AUG 06 Khan, Haji Nasrat (Afghanistan) Chapter 17 (he was 78 years old)
1010 RELEASED NOV 07 Shah, Zahir (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1011 RELEASED SEP 04 Akbar, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
1012 RELEASED DEC 07 Tukhi, Aminullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1013 RELEASED APR 05 Ahmed, Feda (Afghanistan) Chapter 16 (footnote)
1014 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Qadasi, Walid (Yemen) Chapter 16, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1015 WON HABEAS PETITION (July 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Almerfedi, Hussein (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1016 RELEASED NOV 08 Al Hawari, Soufian (Algeria) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1017 Al Rammah, Omar (Zakaria al-Baidany) (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1018 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmed, Wisam (Wassam Al Ourdoni) (Jordan) Chapter 16, also see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1019 RELEASED APR 05 Darwaish, Naibullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1021 RELEASED DEC 07 Chaman, (Commander) Gul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1030 RELEASED DEC 09 Hafiz, Abdul (Abdul Qari) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1032 RELEASED DEC 07 Ghafaar, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1035 RELEASED OCT 06 Jan, Sada (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1036 RELEASED DEC 06 Akhtiar, Haji Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1037 RELEASED FEB 07 Chaman, Nazar Gul (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1041 RELEASED APR 05 Noor, Habib (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1043 RELEASED AUG 07 Mohammed, Abdul Razaq Iktiar (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1045 Kamin, Mohammed (Afghanistan) MILITARY COMMISSION, Website Extras 12, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, mentioned in Afghan Nobody Faces Trial by Military Commission
1050 RELEASED APR 07 Azimullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12, The Anonymous Victims of Guantánamo
1051 RELEASED FEB 06 Sharbat Khan (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1052 RELEASED AUG 08 Rahman, Mahbub (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1056 RELEASED AUG 06 Mohammed, Said (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1074 RELEASED OCT 06 Aman, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1075 RELEASED OCT 06 Khan, Kakai (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1094 Paracha, Saifullah (Pakistan) Chapter 16, also see Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1095 RELEASED NOV 08 Merozhev, Zainulabidin (Jumma Jan) (Tajikistan) Website Extras 12
1100 RELEASED DEC 07 Haq, Abdullah Mujahid (Afghanistan) Chapters 17, 18, also see The Story of Abdullah Mujahid, an Afghan police chief betrayed by the US administration and wrongly sent to Guantánamo
1103 Zahir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 17, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession
1104 RELEASED DEC 09 Rahim, Mohamed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1117 RELEASED MAR 05 Jalil, Mullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1119 Hamidullah, Haji (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1154 RELEASED OCT 06 Ali Shah, Dr. Said Mohammed (Mousavi) (Afghanistan) Chapter 17
1157 RELEASED APR 05 Khan, Hukumra (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
1165 RELEASED JUL 08 Mussa, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 12
Extraordinary renditions
1452 RELEASED JAN 2010 Al Jazeeri, Adil (Algeria) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1453 Al Kazimi, Sanad (Yemen) Website Extras 11, An unreported story from Guantánamo: the tale of Sanad al-Kazimi, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1456 Bin Attash, Hassan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 16, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
1457 Sharqawi, Abdu Ali (Sharqwi Abdu Ali al-Hajj) (Yemen) Chapter 12, mentioned in Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
1458 RELEASED FEB 09 Mohamed, Binyam (UK-Ethiopia) Chapter 16, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), also see Guantánamo: Torture victim Binyam Mohamed sues British government for evidence, Binyam Mohamed’s judicial review: judges grill British agent and question fairness of Guantánamo trials, High Court rules against UK and US in case of Guantánamo torture victim Binyam Mohamed, US Justice Department drops “dirty bomb plot” allegation against Binyam Mohamed, Guilt By Torture: Binyam Mohamed’s Transatlantic Quest for Justice, A History of Music Torture in the “War on Terror”, Is Robert Gates Guilty of Perjury in Guantánamo Torture Case?, British torture victim Binyam Mohamed to be released from Guantánamo, Don’t Forget Guantánamo, The Betrayal of British Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed, Hiding Torture And Freeing Binyam Mohamed From Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed’s Coming Home From Guantánamo, As Torture Allegations Mount, Who Is Binyam Mohamed?, Seven Years of Torture: Binyam Mohamed Tells His Story, Binyam Mohamed’s Plea Bargain: Trading Torture For Freedom, Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, Obama’s First 100 Days: Mixed Messages On Torture, UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, Daily Mail Pulls Story About Binyam Mohamed And British Spy, Government Bans Testimony On Binyam Mohamed And The British Spy, More twists in the tale of Binyam Mohamed (in the Guardian), Did Hillary Clinton Threaten UK Over Binyam Mohamed Torture Disclosure?, Binyam Mohamed: Was Muhammad Salih’s Death In Guantánamo Suicide?, US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed Speaks (Video), UK Judges Order Release Of Details About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed By US Agents, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Musicians (Finally) Say No To Music Torture, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Binyam Mohamed: Evidence of Torture by US Agents Revealed in UK, Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Failed “War on Terror”, As Police Launch New Torture Inquiry, It’s Time for Shaker Aamer to Come Home from Guantánamo, Judges Restore Damning Passage on MI5 to the Binyam Mohamed Torture Ruling, How Binyam Mohammed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US Court, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, William Hague Orders a Judicial Inquiry into British Complicity in Torture, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe (Part One): The UK
1460 Rabbani, Abdul Rahim Ghulam (Pakistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1461 Rabbani, Mohammed Ghulam (Pakistan) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
1463 Al Hela, Abdulsalam (Yemen) Chapter 16, Anger in Yemen Over Halt to Release of Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq
10001 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08), WON APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Bensayah, Belkacem (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16, also see After 7 Years, Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo Kidnap Victims, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, First Guantánamo Prisoner To Lose Habeas Hearing Appeals Ruling
10002 RELEASED DEC 09 (in France), WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Lahmar, Sabir (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapters 16, 19 (also see 10001)
10003 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Nechle, Mohammed (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10004 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Ait Idr, Mustafa (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10005 RELEASED MAY 09 (in France), WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Boumediene, Lakhdar (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16, also see Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: who are Fawzi al-Odah and Lakhdar Boumediene?, An interview with Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham (Part Two), Life After Guantánamo: Lakhdar Boumediene Speaks, Lakhdar Boumediene Talks About Torture At Guantánamo (video) (and also see 10001)
10006 RELEASED DEC 08, WON HABEAS PETITION (Nov 08) Al Hajj, Boudella (Bosnia-Algeria) Chapter 16 (also see 10001)
10007 RELEASED JAN 05 Mubanga, Martin (UK) Chapter 16, also see UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim
10008-10010 NO ISN
14 “high value detainees” (arrived Sep 06)
10011 Al Hawsawi, Mustafa (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, In a legal otherworld, 9/11 defendants cry torture at Guantánamo, Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?, Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Coup?, Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, Obama Proposes Swift Execution of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, 9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10012 Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan (Tanzania) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Face Trial In September 2010, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter-Productive Call for Military Commissions, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10013 Bin Al Shibh, Ramzi (Yemen) Chapters 16, 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record (and also see 10011)
10014 Bin Attash, Waleed (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (and also see 10011)
10015 Al Nashiri, Abdul Rahim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials, Who’s Running Guantánamo?, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention, David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10016 Zubaydah, Abu (Palestine-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 13, 16, 20, also see The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubyadah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, Guantánamo trials: critical judge sacked, British torture victim charged, Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two), Abu Zubaydah: The Futility Of Torture and A Trail of Broken Lives, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?, CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan 8 Months Before DoJ Approval, Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low, The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions, UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary, Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons, Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell, The Torture of Abu Zubaydah: The Complaint Filed Against James Mitchell for Ethical Violations
10017 Al Libi, Abu Faraj (Libya) Chapter 20, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10018 Al Baluchi, Ammar (Ali Abdul Aziz Ali) (Pakistan-Kuwait) Chapter 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (and also see 10011)
10019 Isamuddin, Riduan (Hamlili) (Indonesia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10020 Khan, Majid (Pakistan) Chapter 20, also see Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10021 Bin Amin, Modh Farik (Zubair) (Malaysia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10022 Bin Lep, Mohammed (Lillie) (Malaysia) Chapter 20, also see Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10023 Dourad, Gouled Hassan (Somalia) Chapter 20, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
10024 Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (Pakistan-Kuwait) Chapters 16, 20, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man, Jane Mayer on the CIA’s “black sites”, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, In a legal otherworld, 9/11 defendants cry torture at Guantánamo, Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed, Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?, Is The 9/11 Trial Confession An Al-Qaeda Coup?, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One), Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials, Ten Terrible Truths About The CIA Torture Memos (Part One), Obama Proposes Swift Execution of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators, First photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Guantánamo, 9/11 Trial At Guantánamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?, Torture And Futility: Is This The End Of The Military Commissions At Guantánamo?, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Forthcoming 9/11 Trials and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (Video), FEDERAL COURT TRIAL (under Obama), UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship, When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter-Productive Call for Military Commissions, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
Other new arrivals (Mar 07-Mar 08)
10025 Malik, Mohammed Abdul (Kenya) Chapter 20, also see Myopic Pentagon Keeps Filling Guantánamo
10026 Al Iraqi, Abdul Hadi (Iraq) UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (also see 10025)
10027 RELEASED DEC 09 Arale, Abdullahi Sudi (Ismail Mahmoud Muhammad) (Somalia) (also see 10025)
10028 Al Afghani, Haroon (Afghanistan) (see 10025)
10029 Inayatullah (Afghanistan) (see 10025)
10030 Rahim, Muhammad (Afghanistan) UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons (also see 10025)
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