Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby
Encyclopedia
Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby (born March 1, 1961) (also known as Salim Gherebi) is a citizen of Libya
held in extrajudicial detention in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
s, in Cuba
.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
counter-terrorism
analysts reports that he was born on March 1, 1961, in
Zletan, Saudi Arabia
.
As of August 13, 2011, Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby has been held at Guantanamo for nine years three months.
Human rights lawyer Stephen Yagman
filed the appeal on Salem's behalf after being contacted by Salem's brother
Justice Matz ruled against Salim, but Matz's ruling was overturned on appeal, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals,
on December 18, 2003.
On February 20, 2007 two of the three judges on US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that when the Military Commissions Act
stripped the right to use habeas corpus from the Guantanamo captives retroactively, and that appeals, like Salem's, which were in process, were vacated.
professor Erwin Chemerinsky
.
He handled Salem's writ of habeas corpus.
In 2002 Chemerinsky said he received death threats for his efforts on Gherebi's behalf:
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
held in extrajudicial detention 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
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the island. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command...
counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
analysts reports that he was born on March 1, 1961, in
Zletan, 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...
.
As of August 13, 2011, Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby has been held at Guantanamo for nine years three months.
Access to US Civil Courts
Salem was the first Guantanamo captive to challenge whether he should have access to US Civil Courts.Human rights lawyer Stephen Yagman
Stephen Yagman
Stephen Yagman, is a federal civil rights lawyer.Over his legal career, Stephen Yagman developed a reputation for being a civil rights advocate, a crusader against police brutality, and a "pugnacious civil rights lawyer." In County of Los Angeles v. U.S. Dist. Ct. , 223 F.3d 990 Stephen Yagman,...
filed the appeal on Salem's behalf after being contacted by Salem's brother
Justice Matz ruled against Salim, but Matz's ruling was overturned on appeal, by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals,
on December 18, 2003.
On February 20, 2007 two of the three judges on US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that when the Military Commissions Act
Military Commissions Act of 2006
The United States Military Commissions Act of 2006, also known as HR-6166, was an Act of Congress signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. Drafted in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on Hamdan v...
stripped the right to use habeas corpus from the Guantanamo captives retroactively, and that appeals, like Salem's, which were in process, were vacated.
Salem's legal representation
Salem's lawyer is Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
professor Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky is an American lawyer and law professor. He is a prominent scholar in United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure...
.
He handled Salem's writ of habeas corpus.
In 2002 Chemerinsky said he received death threats for his efforts on Gherebi's behalf:
- “I’ve never done anything that’s gotten the quantity of hate mail this has gotten,”
- “I just feel it’s so important for the United States to follow the law."
External links
- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan Andy Worthington, September 22, 2010