Released 2016-07-11
Serbia ISN 441 | Citizenship Yemen Status given asylum in Serbia | |
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Alternate name Abd Al Rahman Al Zahri
Abdul Rahman Ahmed
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Said Abdihi
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Saad al-Mansur
Abd alRahman Yasir al-Mansur
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Abdullah Abdihi
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Taifi
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad Saad al-Ziahri,
Abu Abdallah Hamza Ahmad Abdallah al-Khatab
Abu Bakr
Hamza Ahmad Abdallah al-Khatab
Thu al-Qarnin al-Sanani
Bin Saleen
Alexander Charge(s) no charge, extrajudicial detention Detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp | ||
Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi is a citizen of Yemen who was held, without charge, in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, from February 9, 2002, to July 11, 2016. On July 11, 2016 he and a Tajikistani captive were transferred to Serbia.
Contents
- Official status reviews
- Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
- Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
- Transfer to Serbia
- PBS Frontline profile
- References
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 441. JTF-GTMO analysts estimate he was born in 1979, in Sana'a, Yemen.
According to the Washington Post the allegations against Al Zahri are internally inconsistent.
Official status reviews
Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. His thirteen-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on June 9, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr., who recommended continued detention.
Transfer to Serbia
Al Dayfi was transferred to Serbia, together with an individual from Tajikistan, named "Muhammadi Davlatov".
PBS Frontline profile
On February 21, 2017, Al-Dayfi was profiled in an episode of the PBS network's Frontline series. His habeas attorney, Beth Jacobs, described how al-Dayfi was offered either Serbia or continued detention.
Jacobs said that neither Serbia, or the US, had provided him with any language training, or other support to help him adapt to civilian life, or adjust to living in a foreign culture, or help him find employment, and that he had started a hunger strike in consequence.
Al-Dayfi learned English in Guantanamo.
When Frontline visited al-Dayfi his weight had dropped 18 pounds in 21 days. In Guantanamo he had been continuously force-fed for over two years.
Frontline producers were intercepted by security officials.
During the course of their research al-Dayfi disappeared. Serbian security officials interfered with their access to him.