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Status Transferred to the United Arab Emirates Detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp | ||
Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullab Sarem Jarabh is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention for over fourteen years in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born in 1976 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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He was transferred to United Arab Emirates, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016.
During the Bush presidency, OARDEC review boards classed him as an "enemy combatant". The Obama presidency replace OARDEC with the Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force, which recommended continued indefinite detention, a status commentators characterized as a "forever prisoner". A Periodic Review Board finally cleared him for release on March 18, 2015.
Scholars at the Brookings Institute, 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.:
Habeas corpus
A habeas corpus petition was submitted on his behalf. In 2005, following a Freedom of Information Act request, the Associated Press placed a dossier of documents from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, for his lawyers.
Periodic Review Board
A Periodic Review Board met to consider his status, on January 27, 2015. The PRB recommended he be transferred from Guantanamo on March 18, 2015. Carol Rosenberg, reporting in the Miami Herald, noted that by the time the PRB considered his status, analysts had quietly dropped the allegation that he had been one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, instead calling him a "low level fighter", who “lacked a leadership position in al-Qaida or the Taliban.”"" His PRB explained their decision, in part, due to a “lack of indications that the detainee harbors anti-American sentiments, extremist beliefs or intention to reengage”