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    Mohamedou Ould Slahi

    Mauritanian author and former Guantánamo detainee

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  1. Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Arabic: محمدو ولد الصلاحي; born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian engineer who was detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016.

  2. Mar 10, 2021 · Why was Mohamedou Ould Slahi sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp? The Mauritanian true story confirms that Slahi was arrested two months after 9/11 in his homeland of Mauritania and taken to three different countries before being sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp (Gitmo) as a result of his past connections to al-Qaeda.

  3. Aug 12, 2018 · Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. Wood, then a member of the...

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  5. Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project. October 17, 2016. After unlawfully imprisoning our client Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Guantánamo for 14 years without charge or trial, the U.S. government has finally released him. He is now home in his native Mauritania. We are overjoyed for Mohamedou and his loving family, who have been ...

    • Hina Shamsi
    • Director, ACLU National Security Project
  6. Oct 17, 2016 · New York, NY 10004. United States. NEW YORK — The U.S. government has transferred Mohamedou Ould Slahi to his native Mauritania, where he is to be reunited with his family. The release comes 14 years after he was first brought by the United States to the prison at Guantánamo Bay.

  7. Dec 10, 2021 · But Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent almost 14 years at Guantánamo and says he was brutally beaten and threatened with execution without ever being charged with a crime, has some advice for...

  8. Guantánamo Diary. One man’s account of rendition, torture and detention without charge at the hands of the US. Watch video. After fourteen years of being held in Guantánamo without charge or trial, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been released and reunited with his family in Mauritiania . Read more.

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