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Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi

Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi

1979

Nationality
Yemen

Incarceration history

Biography

Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi is a Yemeni prisoner who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States from December 2001 to June 22, 2016. He was one of the first twenty captives transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, on January 11, 2002, and was held there until he was transferred to Montenegro, which granted him political asylum. One of the allegations US intelligence analysts used to justify his detention was that he was captured with a group of thirty Osama bin Laden bodyguards. Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, has criticized this allegation as it required taking at face value the denunciations of captives who lacked credibility. Al Rahabi was a married man when he was captured. His wife had just given birth to a daughter. Al Rahabi was one of the camp's most determined hunger strikers.

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