Mansur al-Dayfi
| Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi | |
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| Released | 2016-07-11 Serbia |
| Citizenship | Yemen |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
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| ISN | 441 |
| Charge(s) | no charge, extrajudicial detention |
| Status | given asylum in Serbia |
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.
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.
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.
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:
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