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BBC News
January 14, 2016
The prisoners' rights campaign group Reprieve says that among those released on Thursday is Samir Naji Moqbel who was held for 14 years without charge in Guantanamo. He was taken to the outdoor pens of Camp X-Ray and subjected to severe physical abuse, Reprieve says, before being cleared forÃÂ ...
The Sun Herald
January 13, 2016
... Samir al Hassan Moqbel, 38; and Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, 50. The first three are from Yemen; the last is Tunisian. But as long as al-Bahlul's life sentence stands and Congress continues to insist that no Guantanamo captive set foot on U.S. soil, Guantanamo is the Pentagon's version of Spandau Prison.
Tampabay.com
January 11, 2015
WASHINGTON — Thirteen years ago, a U.S. Air Force C-131 Starlifter cargo plane set down at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dislodged 20 men in orange jumpsuits brought from Afghanistan and started the Pentagon's experiment in offshore detention. Within days the U.S. military wouldÃÂ ...
CNN
December 11, 2014
Samir Naji is a Yemeni accused of serving in Osama bin Laden's security detail and has been imprisoned for nearly 13 years without charge in Guantanamo Bay. He was cleared for release in 2009, but remains in detention. The following first-person testimony, recorded during his most recent meeting withÃÂ ...
Creative Time Reports
September 2, 2013
As a months-long hunger strike persists in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Molly Crabapple's drawings of seven detainees—one of whom was released last week—challenge us to remember their history and humanity.
BU Today
May 27, 2013
Of the 166 detainees still held at Guantanamo, 102 are on hunger strikes, with some having refused food for more than 100 days. Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, described the experience through an Arabic interpreter to his lawyers, calling the insertion ofÃÂ ...
NPR (blog)
April 17, 2013
The news of the expanded hunger strike follows an op-ed piece published in The New York Times on Sunday by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a Yemeni detainee at the camp who has been on hunger strike since Feb. 10. In the piece headlined "Gitmo Is Killing Me," Moqbel says: "The situation is desperateÃÂ ...
Shadowproof (blog)
January 9, 2017
In March 2013, the Joint Medical Group at Guantanamo Bay ... Guantanamo prisoner Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel described how he feltÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 14, 2016
The population of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has ... In 2013, Mr Moqbel wrote about a mass hunger strike at the camp in theÃÂ ...
CNN
December 11, 2014
Samir Naji is a Yemeni accused of serving in Osama bin Laden's security detail and has been imprisoned for nearly 13 years without charge inÃÂ ...
Creative Time Reports
September 2, 2013
As a months-long hunger strike persists in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Molly Crabapple's drawings of seven detainees—one of whom wasÃÂ ...
BU Today
May 27, 2013
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, described the experience through an Arabic interpreter to hisÃÂ ...
NPR (blog)
April 17, 2013
In the piece headlined "Gitmo Is Killing Me," Moqbel says: "The situation is desperate now. All of the detainees here are suffering deeply.
Grays Harbor Daily World
January 23, 2016
More than a third of those remaining are approved for transfer - like Day One detainees Mahmud Mujahid, 35; Abdel Malik Wahab al-Rahabi, 36; Samir al Hassan Moqbel, 38; and Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, 50. The first three are from Yemen; the last isÃÂ ...
