Tragically, many of the prisoners had put themselves in harms way to fulfill a sacred religious duty. Islam ordains charitable work. Many of these men are teachers. They are pious men bound by a great tradition to make sacrifices on behalf of other human beings

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The PRISONERS
F.P.S.S would like to acknowledge Project Kuwaiti Freedom as the source of this information.

	Full name: David Hicks Nationality: Australian Age: 29 Family status: Single with two children aged 10 and 11 Occupation: Horse trainer/Jackaroo "I have been beaten before, after and during investigations. I have been menaced and threatened, directly and indirectly, with firearms and other weapons before and during investigations." David Hicks. Click Here to read more on this case
	Canadian national: Omar Khadr Full name: Omar Khadr Nationality: Canadian Age: 19 "Young enemy combatants are treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status." Letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Butler to Amnesty International, July 2003. Click Here to read more on this case
	Full name: Omar Deghayes Nationality: Libyan citizen/UK resident Age: 35 Family status: Married with a three year-old son Occupation: Lawyer "If torture and abuse had a smell, none of the American soldiers would be able to sit next to anyone else." Omar Deghayes. Click Here to read more on this case
	Jumah Mohammed Abdul-Latif al-Dossari Nationality: Bahraini national Age: 32 Family status: Divorced with a young daughter "He pushed his face and he smashed it into the concrete floor…There was blood everywhere. When they took him out they hosed the cell down and the water ran red with blood. We all saw it." Released Guantánamo detainees speaking about the torture of Jumah al-Dossari. Click Here to read more on this case Testimony of Jumah al-Dossari
	Yemeni national: Abdulsalam al-Hela Full name: Abdulsalam al-Hela Nationality: Yemeni Occupation: Businessman Age: 34 Family status: Married with two children "Contact with him suddenly stopped…when we called him, his mobile phone rang but there was no answer". Abdulsalam al-Hela's brother, talking of his brother's "disappearance" Click Here to read more on this case
	Sudanese national: Sami al Hajj Full name: Sami al Hajj Nationality: Sudanese Occupation: Cameraman/journalist Age: 35 Family status: Married with one child Click Here to read more on this case
	Chadian national: Mohammed el Gharani They did not ask me my age until I had been in Cuba for a year." "Before I came to Camp V, I had hope. After this I lost all hope." Mohammed el Gharani. Click Here to read more on this case
	Muhammad Abdullah Salah al-Assad Full name: Nationality: Yemeni Age: 45 Family status: Married, five children Amnesty International has received consistent reports that the US authorities have a network of secret detention centres around the globe, holding an unknown number of "war on terror" detainees in unknown conditions In September 2005, Amnesty International spoke with Muhammad al-Assad, a man who had been caught up in this sinister system. He was effectively disappeared" by the US for over 16 months. Click Here to read more on this case
	Full name: Murat Kurnaz Nationality: Turkish Family status: Married, no children Occupation: Apprentice ship builder "I am here having lost a few years of my life because of Usama Bin Laden. His beliefs show Islam in the wrong way. I am not angry with Americans. Many Americans died on 11 September in the terrorist attack. I realize the Americans are trying to stop terrorism… I went to study in Pakistan at the wrong time…" Murat Kurnaz. Click Here to read more on this case
	Full name: Mustafa Ait Idir Nationality: Bosnian Age: 35 Family status: Married with three young sons Occupation: Reportedly worked for the humanitarian organization Igasa "Muhamed was four when Mustafa was taken away. But he still remembers every moment he spent with him. And every day, I keep telling him that his father is on business trip, and he will come soon. Lately I noticed that he is not that happy and excited anymore. I think that he doesn't believe me anymore." Wife of Mustafa Ait Idir. Click Here to read more on this case
	Full name: Abdel Malik Abdel Wahab Nationality: Yemeni Age: 22 Family status: Married with a four-year-old daughter Occupation: Teacher/student "We have nothing here, no rights, no trials, nothing." Abdel Malik Abdel Wahab, speaking about detention in Guantánamo Bay Click Here to read more on this case
	Fawzi Khaled Abdullah Fahad Al Odah -- is a 25 year-old teacher who once spent his summers traveling in poor nations to educate less fortunate students. Fawzi and his family have built libraries and wells in Africa. They’ve sponsored orphans in countries like Albania. After September 11th, Fawzi decided to remain in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region to help the flood of refugees. His family soon lost contact and did not learn that he had been taken prisoner until January 2002, when they heard he was being held by the U.S. Fawzi has no weapons training or experience. On May 7, 2002, Fawzi sent his parents a letter saying, “Now I am detained by the American forces and investigations are still going on…I will be established as innocent soon, and then I will return back to you…” Fawzi’s father, Khalid Al-Odah, is the head of the Kuwaiti Family Committee, an organization formed by relatives of the detainees to advocate for their just treatment under the U.S. judicial system. The elder Al-Odah is a former member of the Kuwaiti Air Force, who trained with American servicemen in the United States and flew missions with them as an ally in the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
	Omar Rajab Mohammad Rajab Amin -- is an agricultural supervisor for the Care Houses department of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. In 1993 he began working for Kuwait’s Combined Relief Committee, assisting refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He married a Bosnian woman in 1994, returning to Kuwait in 1998 where he lived happily with his wife and four children. When the refugee situation arose in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, Omar collected money and took a short leave of absence from work to assist the refugees. He intended to return to Kuwait quickly as his five-year old son was scheduled for a heart operation. He had never been to Afghanistan or Pakistan before, and most likely tried to flee with the other refugee workers when the violence erupted. Meanwhile, his son was operated on successfully and his wife was pregnant with their fifth child. In a Red Cross letter he wrote from Guantanamo, he says, “My dear wife, I pray that you are well and in good health and I hope that you will receive this message after you have safely given birth to the newly born baby…Please be advised that my imprisonment will not be for long. I have always done good for those who are in distress.”
	Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah -- is an Aviation Engineer for Kuwaiti Airlines and a father of four children. He is an international graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and was granted honorary citizenship by the Chamber of the Daytona Beach-Halifax area. He worked on a rescue campaign in Kosovo in 1988 as a Red Crescent humanitarian aid worker and in 2000 he delivered a consignment of medicine to Bangladesh for patients suffering from kidney disease. In 2001, he delivered more than 30 trucks of aid from Meshad, Iran to refugees on the Afghani-Iranian border and to hospitals in Kandahar. In a Red Cross letter he wrote, “As you know, I traveled to deliver rescue materials…the situation in this country turned upside down overnight, and now every Arab citizen has become a suspect.” The 44 year-old Fouad suffers from several serious health conditions.
	Nasser Nijer Naser al Mutairi -- is a 25 year-old teacher and minister who worked for the Ministry of Education in Kuwait. He left his home in October of 2000 in order to minister in the small mosques and schools of Afghanistan 's poorer regions. He is a member of the Tableeghi sect, an order of apolitical and peaceful missionaries. In October of 2002, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Nasser's family that he had taken ill and was in a hospital in Kandahar. It is not known why or how he was deported from the hospital to Guantanamo Bay. In fact, very little is known of his condition, other than that he has asked his parents to contact the Red Cross on his behalf.
	Khalid Abdullah Mishal al Mutairi -- was working at a primary school as a messenger and planned to return to school in 2001. His family has funded agricultural projects in Pakistan, bought farms for the poor in India, and supported an orphan girl in Bosnia. In 2001, Khalid traveled to Pakistan to help repair a mosque his family had funded. The last time his family spoke to him, he said he wanted to assist the Afghani refugees and that he would be home by December, 2001. It is not known why or how he ended up in detention in Guantanamo Bay.
	Abdullah Kamal Abdullah Kamal Al Kandari -- is a mechanical technician and father of four. In 2001, he traveled to the Afghani-Pakistani border to help in the refugee relief. The last time he spoke to his family in October of 2001, he told them that “all Arab citizens are wanted, whether they are warriors or members of relief agencies.” In a Red Cross letter, he wrote, “I would like news of my family, especially of my pregnant wife. Did she give birth yet? …I will be back soon, [it] is only a matter of time until they find me innocent and learn that I did not fight, but I came to help the poor and needy and that I was trapped in Afghanistan against my will…Please be advised that I do not know where I am, but the authorities say the state I am in is Cuba.”
	Abdulaziz Saver Owain al Shammari -- is a 30 year-old teacher and a father of two. He departed Kuwait for Pakistan in October, 2001 to start up an operation with local aid groups to help the refugees. He contacted his family, saying that the situation was unstable and that he would return home as soon as he had finished his mission. The next they heard from him was a Red Cross letter from Guantanamo. “Dear father,” he wrote, “I have informed them about everything relating to me and that I only went to Afghanistan to teach, and that I have nothing to do with the war. They said that they are going to verify these facts and, if they are true, they will release me. Every time, they say they are going to release me soon… “I have gone on a hunger strike for 27 days and I will continue the strike indefinitely. Further, I am not drinking water or speaking for four days until they set me free or take me to court for trial in order to obtain all my rights. Or I will die, as I can not stand life in this place.” Abdulaziz is believed to still be alive in the Camp Delta detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.
	Mohammed Fenaitel Mohamad Al Daihani -- was an auditor in the Kuwaiti Audit Bureau and a father of six children. In 1993, his family funded the building of a well in the Philippines and, the following year, he purchased a farm in Indonesia for a local orphan village to use for food. In 1995, he funded the construction of a mosque in the republic of Benin. On September 9, 2001, Mohammad left Kuwait to use the two remaining weeks of his annual leave to provide aid to the Afghan refugees settling on the border after fleeing the harsh conditions of life under the Taliban. After September 11th, he contacted his family to say that the borders had been closed and only women, children, and the elderly were being allowed to leave. He contacted them later, saying “I am currently detained by the American army. They know that I was in Afghanistan to dig water wells and that the borders were closed, so I could not get out of the country. Yet they are still investigating.” His family has no means of income while he is detained, and he worries about their suffering.
	Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari -- is a 27 year-old student who went to render aid in Afghanistan during his 2001 summer vacation. It was his belief that helping others might honor his grandmother, who had just died, and bring better health to his mother, who is suffering from cancer. After being captured by U.S. forces, he wrote in a message to his family that an American investigator had questioned him and found nothing against him, and he believed he would soon be freed. He wrote in a Red Cross letter, “If the construction of a mosque…or the digging of a well is the sin that makes me a detainee, then I willingly accept my detention.”
	Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin Al Zamil -- worked in the Kuwaiti Public Authority for Housing Care, and is the father of 8 children. Since their father has been detained, they have had no means of income. Adil’s father is too ill to care for his grandchildren. It is believed that Adil was arrested in Pakistan at the end of February, 2002 by a group of Pakistani and U.S. personnel, though the reason for his arrest is not known.
	Saad Madai Saad Al-Azmi -- 24 traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan in July 2001 to supervise charitable projects, including the construction of mosques. After the bombing of Afghanistan began following September 11th, Saad left for Pakistan where he stayed for about a month. He then traveled to Lahore, Pakistan for several weeks, then on to Karachi in January in order to arrange transportation back home to Kuwait. For unknown reasons, he was detained in Pakistan and eventually was taken by the U.S. to Guantanamo.
	Abdullah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi -- is a 25 year-old lance corporal in the Kuwaiti army. He is a member of the apolitical Tableeghi sect. His family says that he decided to take a leave of absence from the army in order to “rescue the needy and the poor” in Pakistan. A month after he left Kuwait, he contacted his family to tell them that he was successfully carrying out aid work. The next his parents heard from him was a Red Cross postcard from Guantanamo.

British Citizens held in Guantanamo Bay
Bisher al-Rawi	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Jamil El Banna	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Omar Deghayes	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
	Zohra Zawawi, mother of Omar Deghayes Plea
Binyam Mohammed al-Habashi	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Ahmed Errachiddi	one of nine British residents held in Guantanamo	More Info
Ahmed Ben Bacha	Algerian who lived in Bournemouth.	More Info
Abdulnour Sameur	an Algerian refugee who lived in South Harrow, London.	More Info

Statements & Testimony by inmates of Guantanamo Bay

Sakim Ahmed Hamdan V Donald.H.Rumsfeld Former Guantanamo Britons: Statement on the Deaths in Guantánamo Bay Tarek Dergoul: Another Guantanamo Whitewash Statement from Former Guantanamo Detainee, Abdullah Alnoaimi on Guantanamo Deaths Testimony of Jumah al-Dossari

WRITE TO A PRISONER IN GUANTANAMO BAY
Address all mail to: GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Prisoner name Camp Delta P.O. Box 160 Washington DC 20053 USA NOTE: Individuals should note that whilst the US government do allow mail from non-family members, all mail is subject to extreme delays as well as censors. Letters can be held for up to a year or longer, or that the detainees may never receive your letter. The US is believed to be clamping down on mail particularly, of late. However, letter-writing can be considered a protest action, as it sends a strong message to the US administration that the world has not forgotten the prisoners in Guantanamo, but rather is immensely concerned about what is occuring in Cuba.
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