Guantanamo detainee #940
Adel Hamad, husband and father, aid worker and teacher, continues to be detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite efforts to clear his name and return him to his family in Sudan.
Guantanamo Unclassified
More information at Project Hamad.
See also this article at Slate, The YouTube Defense: Human rights go viral.
UPDATE: Eric Alterman shares a report from a human rights activist who followed up on several Guantanamo detainees who were sent home.
Here is part of her report:
Former Guantanamo detainees who were sent home to Russia in 2004 experienced torture and other abuse despite Moscow’s pledge to the U.S. government that they would be treated humanely, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The Russian prisoners’ experience illustrates why the United States should stop relying “diplomatic assurances” of fair treatment to justify sending prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to countries where they are at risk of torture.
The seven Russians were all detained soon after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and eventually spent about two years in Guantanamo. Although they complained of mistreatment by the Americans, all of the detainees repeatedly asked authorities at Guantanamo not to be returned to Russia because they expected to be treated worse there. And indeed, three of them experienced serious torture and ill-treatment after being arrested in Russia. Two of them were convicted at unfair trials; and all of them have been harassed and hounded by Russian law enforcement….
So much for the rule of law. The Alterman post contains a link to her entire report (43 pg. PDF file).