Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi is a Sudanese militant and paymaster for al-Qaeda. Qosi was held from January 2002 in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 54.
Seth Paul Waxman is an American lawyer who served as the 41st Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 to 2001. He then returned to private legal practice,and serves as the co-chairman of the appellate and Supreme Court litigation practice group at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. As of 2022,he has appeared before the Supreme Court more than 80 times.
Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Odah is a Kuwaiti citizen formerly held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. He had been detained without charge in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He was a plaintiff in the ongoing case,Al Odah v. United States,which challenged his detention,along with that of fellow detainees. The case was widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant to be heard by the Supreme Court in the current term. The US Department of Defense reports that he was born in 1977,in Kuwait City,Kuwait.
Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari is a citizen of Kuwait,who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba.
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is an environmental advocacy organization based in New England,United States. Since 1966,CLF's mission has been to advocate for New England's environment and its communities. CLF's advocacy work takes place across five integrated program areas:Clean Energy &Climate Change,Clean Air &Water,Healthy Oceans,People &Justice,and Healthy Communities. CLF's mission statement is to "use the law,science,and the market to create solutions that preserve natural resources,build healthy communities,and sustain a vibrant economy." CLF focuses on promoting renewable energy and fight air and water pollution;building sustainable fishing communities and protect marine habitat;promoting public transit and defend public health;achieving environmental justice;and sustaining a vibrant,equitable economy.
The Algerian Six were six Algerian men,who gained citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War,five of whom will continue to hold a dual Algerian and Bosnian citizenship,and who were imprisoned without charges at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba from January 2002.
Abdul Zahir is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba. He was the tenth captive,and the first Afghan,to face charges before the first Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military commissions. After the Supreme Court ruled that the President lacked the constitutional authority to set up military commissions,the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006. He was not charged under that system.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an international law firm with offices in the United States,Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and Boston. It was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based,firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering,and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Abdel Hamid Ibn Abdussalem Ibn Mifta Al Ghazzawi is a citizen of Libya who was held from June 2002 until March 2010 in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba because the United States classified him as an enemy combatant. His internment number was 654.
The Center for Constitutional Rights has coordinated efforts by American lawyers to handle the habeas corpus,and other legal appeals,of several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees.
Boumediene v. Bush,553 U.S. 723 (2008),was a writ of habeas corpus petition made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene,a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina,held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. Guantánamo Bay is not formally part of the United States,and under the terms of the 1903 lease between the United States and Cuba,Cuba retained ultimate sovereignty over the territory,while the United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control. The case was consolidated with habeas petition Al Odah v. United States. It challenged the legality of Boumediene's detention at the United States Naval Station military base in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba as well as the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Oral arguments on the combined cases were heard by the Supreme Court on December 5,2007.
Stephen Abraham is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Army Reserve. In June 2007,he became the first officer who had served on a Combatant Status Review Tribunal to publicly criticize its operations. He said the evidence provided did not meet legal standard,and the members of the panels were strongly pressured by superiors to find that detainees should be classified as enemy combatants. Abraham served in the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants.
Al Odah v. United States is a court case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsels challenging the legality of the continued detention as enemy combatants of Guantanamo detainees. It was consolidated with Boumediene v. Bush (2008),which is the lead name of the decision.
Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer. Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo detainees. Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying "Enemy Combatants":Congress,What Have You Done?"
Lakhdar Boumediene is an Algerian-born citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina who was held in military custody in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba beginning in January 2002. Boumediene was the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush (2008),a U.S. Supreme Court decision that Guantanamo detainees and other foreign nationals have the right to file writs of habeas corpus in U.S. federal courts.
There have been mixed reports of the limits on Guantanamo detainees' mail privileges.
Andrea J. Prasow is an American attorney and global human rights advocate. She leads The Freedom Initiative,a U.S.-based organization whose mission is "to bring international attention to the plight of political prisoners in the Middle East and advocate for their release." Prasow was appointed as The Freedom Initiative's executive director in November 2021.
Maura Tracy Healey is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023 and was elected governor in 2022,defeating the Republican nominee,former state representative Geoff Diehl.
Kate R. Cook is an American lawyer and government official serving as the chief of staff for the Massachusetts governor's office since January 2023.
