Deleted:Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby
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Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby (born March 1, 1961) (also known as Salim Gherebi) is a citizen of Libya held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1]
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on March 1, 1961, in Zletan, Saudi Arabia.
As of August 13, 2011, Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby has been held at Guantanamo for nine years three months.[2]
Access to US Civil Courts
Salem was the first Guantanamo captive to challenge whether he should have access to US Civil Courts.[3] Human rights lawyer Stephen Yagman filed the appeal on Salem's behalf after being contacted by Salem's brother
Justice Matz ruled against Salim, but Matz's ruling was overturned on appeal, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, on December 18, 2003.[4]
On February 20, 2007 two of the three judges on US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that when the Military Commissions Act stripped the right to use habeas corpus from the Guantanamo captives retroactively, and that appeals, like Salem's, which were in process, were vacated.[5]
Salem's legal representation
Salem's lawyer is Duke University professor Erwin Chemerinsky.[6] He handled Salem's writ of habeas corpus.
In 2002 Chemerinsky said he received death threats for his efforts on Gherebi's behalf:[3]
- “I’ve never done anything that’s gotten the quantity of hate mail this has gotten,”
- “I just feel it’s so important for the United States to follow the law."
References
- ↑ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ↑ "Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/189-salem-abdul-salem-ghereby.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charles Rappleye (February 6, 2002). "Frozen in Guantánamo: The L.A. case for al Qaeda". LA Weekly news. http://www.laweekly.com/news/new-world-disorder/frozen-in-guantnamo/10662/. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
- ↑ Erwin Chemerinsky, Stephen Yagman (July 1, 2005). "Protecting rights after Guantnamo". San Diego Union-Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050701/news_lz1e1yagman.html. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
- ↑ Jeannie Shawl (February 20, 2007). "Federal appeals court upholds MCA habeas-stripping provisions". The Jurist. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/02/federal-appeals-court-upholds-mca.php. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
- ↑ Josh White (February 21, 2007). "New detainee law upheld". Washington Post. http://www.newsobserver.com/719/story/545387.html.
External links
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- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan Andy Worthington, September 22, 2010
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