Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby
| Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby | |
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His official Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing a white uniform, indicating he was classified as "compliant" captive.
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| Born |
March 1, 1961 Zletan, Saudi Arabia |
| Released | 2016-04-04 Senegal |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
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| ISN | 189 |
| Charge(s) | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
| Status | released to Senegal |
Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby (born March 1, 1961) is a citizen of Libya who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, from May 5, 2002 until April 4, 2016.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on March 1, 1961, in Zletan, Saudi Arabia.
According to historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, Gherebi had settled in Pakistan after fleeing Muammar Gaddafi's repressive regime in Libya. He was married a Pakistani woman, and had fathered several children, the youngest of whom is fifteen, and who he has never met. He had worked as a teacher, teaching science at a primary school.
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.
Salem was the first Guantanamo captive to challenge whether he should have access to US Civil Courts. Human rights lawyer Stephen Yagman filed the appeal on Salem's behalf after being contacted by Salem's brother
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