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Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari (Arabic: جمعه محمد عبد اللطيف الدوسري) is a Bahraini citizen who was held for five years at Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. He spent 3+1⁄2 years in solitary confinement. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 with no charges against him. During the 1990s, he fought in Bosnia and Chechnya.
In late July 2005, Al-Dossari spoke with his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan about the summer's first hunger strike. The prisoners ended this strike on July 28, 2005, when guard commander Michael Bumgarner promised concessions.
Speaking in Bahrain in September 2005, following the meeting with his client, Colangelo-Bryan revealed that Al-Dossari had informed him that:
Colangelo-Bryan believed that Al-Dossari joined in the summer's second hunger strike, which started approximately August 8, 2005.
Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life, featured Al-Dossari in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.
On September 5, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter Al-Dossari had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post-marked June 10, 2005, and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
On September 17, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter received from the father of Al-Dossari, saying that he had throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.
British detainees Tarek Dergoul and Shafiq Rasul were released in 2004. They reported that their cells were near that of Al-Dossari. According to Human Rights Watch:
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Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari (Arabic: جمعه محمد عبد اللطيف الدوسري) is a Bahraini citizen who was held for five years at Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. He spent 3+1⁄2 years in solitary confinement. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 with no charges against him. During the 1990s, he fought in Bosnia and Chechnya.
In late July 2005, Al-Dossari spoke with his lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan about the summer's first hunger strike. The prisoners ended this strike on July 28, 2005, when guard commander Michael Bumgarner promised concessions.
Speaking in Bahrain in September 2005, following the meeting with his client, Colangelo-Bryan revealed that Al-Dossari had informed him that:
Colangelo-Bryan believed that Al-Dossari joined in the summer's second hunger strike, which started approximately August 8, 2005.
Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life, featured Al-Dossari in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.
On September 5, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter Al-Dossari had written, protesting his innocence. The letter was post-marked June 10, 2005, and described various abuses he had suffered, including:
On September 17, 2005, the Gulf Daily News summarized a letter received from the father of Al-Dossari, saying that he had throat cancer, expects to die soon and pleads to see his son.
British detainees Tarek Dergoul and Shafiq Rasul were released in 2004. They reported that their cells were near that of Al-Dossari. According to Human Rights Watch: