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Guant谩namo Bay, Cuba 鈥� After 14 years of detention, Mohamedou Ould Slahi today received a Periodic Review Board hearing that could result in his release.

The PRB process was established by President Obama in 2011 to assess whether Guant谩namo detainees pose a 鈥渟ignificant security threat鈥� or whether they can be transferred. Slahi鈥檚 military-assigned personal representative and his counsel submitted materials showing he poses no threat, including a deeply personal letter of support from a former U.S. military guard who was assigned to Slahi for 10 months.

鈥淏ased on my interactions with Slahi while in Guant谩namo, I would be pleased to welcome him into my home. I would like the opportunity to eventually see him again,鈥� said the former Guant谩namo guard in his letter to the PRB.

Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen and author of the best-selling memoir 鈥淕uant谩namo Diary,鈥� has also received an outpouring of support from around the world:

• The 老澳门开奖结果 and have collected over 88,000 signatures petitions to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter calling for Slahi鈥檚 release. The petitions have been championed by luminaries including Maggie Gyllenhaal, , and .
• Nearly 90 professors and teachers from a variety of disciplines, many of whom assigned Guant谩namo Diary to their students, signed a letter to Carter urging Slahi鈥檚 freedom.
• 15 members of the U.K. Parliament, led by MP Tom Brake, signed urging the British government to call on the U.S. government to release Slahi.

Hina Shamsi, one of Slahi鈥檚 attorneys and director of the 老澳门开奖结果 National Security Project, said, 鈥淢ore than anything, Mohamedou wants to show the board that he poses no threat to the United States and must be allowed to return home to his family where he belongs. The PRB has the ability to end an injustice that has lasted 14 long years.鈥�

A selection of materials submitted to the Periodic Review Board on Slahi鈥檚 behalf are here:

Letter of Support From Slahi鈥檚 Former Guard at Guant谩namo:

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Letter of Support From Col. Morris Davis, Former Guant谩namo Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor:

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Letter of Support From Larry Siems, Editor of 鈥淕uant谩namo Diary鈥�:

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Letter of Support From Nancy Hollander, Slahi鈥檚 Attorney:

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Opening Statement of Theresa Duncan, Slahi鈥檚 Attorney:

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Opening Statement of Slahi鈥檚 Military-Assigned Personal Representatives:

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ABOUT MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Mauritania in 1970 and won a scholarship to attend college in Germany. In the early 1990s, Slahi fought with al-Qaeda when it was part of the Afghan anti-communist resistance supported by the U.S. The A federal judge who reviewed all the evidence in his case noted that the group then was very different from the one that later came into existence. Slahi worked in Germany for several years as an engineer and returned to Mauritania in 2000. The following year, at the behest of the U.S., he was detained by Mauritanian authorities and rendered to a prison in Jordan. Later he was rendered again, first to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and finally, in August 2002, to the U.S. prison at Guant谩namo Bay, where he was subjected to severe torture.

Slahi was one of two so-called 鈥淪pecial Projects鈥� whose brutal treatment then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally approved. The abuse included beatings, extreme isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual molestation, frigid rooms, shackling in stress positions, and threats against both Slahi and his mother. In Slahi鈥檚 habeas challenge, a federal district court judge determined Slahi鈥檚 detention was unlawful and ordered him released in 2010. The U.S. government successfully appealed that decision and the habeas case is still pending.

Slahi鈥檚 book, 鈥淕uant谩namo Diary,鈥漷he first and only memoir by a still-imprisoned Guant谩namo detainee, was published from a 466-page handwritten manuscript. In January 2015, after a years-long battle with the government, the book was released in the United States. It spent several weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and has since been translated into multiple languages for publication in more than 25 countries.

Book excerpts and video and audio content can be found at: