Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab

Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab
Jihad Dhiab's official Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing the orange uniform issued to noncompliant individuals
Born (1971-07-10) July 10, 1971 (age 53)[1]
Jedeta, Lebanon
ArrestedNovember 2001
Pakistan
CitizenshipSyrian
Detained at Guantanamo
ISN722
Charge(s)No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
Statusgranted asylum in Uruguay, current location: Unknown.

Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab also known as Abu Wa'el Dhiab[2] was born in Lebanon on July 10, 1971. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba until he was released to Uruguay.[3] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 722. Dhiab was one of the Guantanamo hunger strikers.[4]

He, along with five other Guantanamo prisoners, was granted asylum by Uruguay in exchange for a trade agreement to allow Uruguay to sell oranges to the US.[5] On December 7, 2014, he was released to Uruguay.

  1. ^ JTF- GTMO Detainee Assessment Department of Defense
  2. ^ "South Africa turns away former hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee". Miami Herald. December 16, 2016.
  3. ^ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved May 15, 2006.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference MiamiHerald2016-06-18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Observador, El (May 6, 2016). "Mujica: "Para venderle unos kilos de naranja a EE.UU me tuve que bancar a cinco locos de Guantánamo"". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved November 30, 2019.