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Mammar Ameur is a citizen of Algeria who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 939. The Department of Defense reports that Ameur was born on December 1, 1958, in L'aghouat, Algeria.

Ameur Mammar v. George W. Bush

A writ of habeas corpus, Ameur Mammar v. George W. Bush, was submitted on Ameur Mammar's behalf. The Department of Defense published the unclassified documents related to the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of 179 captives who had writs of habeas corpus published on their behalf. But they didn't publish the documents from Mammar Ameur's Tribunal.

On April 17, 2007 The Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the habeas petitions of captives who had been repatriated, or who had died in custody. Mammar Ameur's petition was not on this list.

Ameur's refugee status

According to Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Kansas City Star, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees wrote the Pentagon, on December 20, 2006, seeking information on why Ameur, and another man were being detained in Guantanamo. The UNHCR had not known until December 2006 that the Americans were holding internationally recognized refugees in Guantanamo. Ameur was granted UN refugee status in Pakistan in 1996. Mohammed Sulaymon Barre was granted UN refugee status in Pakistan in 1994. A third captive, Fethi Boucetta, was one of the 38 captives who was determined not have been an "enemy combatant" after all. The Americans transferred him to Albania.

Repatriation

The Department of Defense reported on 8 October 2008 that an Algerian and a Sudanese had just been repatriated. Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, reported that Mammar Ameur was the Algerian captive.

References

1. OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
2. "Ameur Mammar v. George W. Bush -- 05-573 (RJL)". United States Department of Justice. May 2, 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
3. Carol Rosenberg (January 29, 2007). "U.N. refugee agency seeking information on 2 detainees". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
4. "Two Guantanamo detainees transferred: Pentagon". Agence France Presse. 2008-10-08. Retrieved 2008-10-08. mirror
5. "Pentagon: Two Guantanamo Detainees Transferred". Voice of America. 2008-10-08. Retrieved 2008-10-08. mirror
6. "The US hands over Algeria a fifth Guantanamo prisoner". El Khabar. 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-10. mirror
7. Andy Worthington (2008-10-08). "Two 50 Year Olds Are Released From Guantanamo". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2008-10-09. mirror

External links

• Seized In Pakistan, Two 50 Year Olds Are Released From Guantánamo Andy Worthington

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• 1958 births
• Living people
• Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
• Algerian people