"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
Back to the film Thanksgiving, 2014 To begin, please forgive me for not saying the right things or making the right points. There are different cultures between us and many different experiences. It...
Updated: January 14, 2016
Tariq Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by his loving...
Updated: October 28, 2016
Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
UPDATE: On February 2, 2023, Majid Khan was transferred to Belize. Read our press release about the transfer, and his statement . Majid Khan was born in Saudi Arabia in February 1980. A citizen of...
Updated: February 2, 2023
Ghaleb Nasser Al-Bihani is a Yemeni citizen who was born in 1979 in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. In early 2002, Ghaleb was transferred to Guantánamo, where he was detained without charge for fifteen years...
Updated: February 17, 2017
David Hicks David Hicks is an Australian citizen and one of the first men detained at Guantánamo Bay after 9/11. During the five and a half years he spent at Guantánamo, he was subjected to some of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Updated: September 8, 2021
Talal Al-Zahrani and his son Yasser Al-Zahrani. Yasser was 21 when died at Guantanamo in 2006.
Updated: September 8, 2021
Fahd Ghazy Fahd Ghazy is a Yemeni-national who was detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for 14 years. Fahd arrived at Guantánamo in February 2002. He was only 17 when his nightmare began. Fahd was...
Updated: January 14, 2016
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