Majid Al Barayan is a citizen of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

 who was held in extrajudicial detention

Extrajudicial detention

Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...

s, in Cuba

Cuba

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.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 51.
The Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 reports that he was born on September 27, 1972, in Jeddah

Jeddah

Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...

, Saudi Arabia.

Majid al Barayan was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border in December 2001 and was transferred to Saudi Arabia on September 5, 2007.

Combatant Status Review

A Summary of Evidence memo

Summary of Evidence (CSRT)

Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of the 558 captives who remained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba in the fall of 2004.-The 2005 release:...

 was prepared for his tribunal. The memo accused him of the following:

Repatriation

Barayan was one of sixteen Saudi captives repatriated from Guantanamo on September 16, 2007.

External links

• The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (3) – “Osama’s Bodyguards” Andy Worthington