Released 2016-07-11Serbia ISN 441 | Citizenship Yemen | |
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Alternate name Abd Al Rahman Al ZahriAbdul Rahman AhmedAbd al-Rahman Ahmad Said AbdihiAbd al-Rahman Ahmad Saad al-MansurAbd alRahman Yasir al-MansurAbd al-Rahman Ahmad Abdullah AbdihiAbd al-Rahman Ahmad al-TaifiAbd al-Rahman Ahmad Saad al-Ziahri,Abu Abdallah Hamza Ahmad Abdallah al-KhatabAbu BakrHamza Ahmad Abdallah al-KhatabThu al-Qarnin al-SananiBin SaleenAlexander Charge(s) no charge, extrajudicial detention Detained at | ||
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.