Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris | |
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Born | 1961[1] Port Sudan, Sudan |
Died | (aged 60) Port Sudan, Sudan |
Citizenship | Sudan |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
Other name(s) | Mahmud Idris |
ISN | 36 |
Charge(s) | No charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
Occupation | Medical doctor |
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris (1961 – February 10, 2021) was a citizen of Sudan, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[2] His detainee ID number was 036.
In July 2013, a motion was filed seeking his release because his physical and emotional health had deteriorated to the point where he could not pose a threat.[3] On October 3, 2013, Ben Fox, of the Associated Press, reported that the United States Department of Justice had dropped its opposition to Idris's repatriation.[4]
His entry in the official list of Guantanamo captives asserts he was born in Hathramaut, Yemen, but his formerly secret Guantanamo assessment asserts he was born in Port Sudan, Sudan.[2]
According to a formerly secret Guantanamo assessment, he was a medical doctor and suspected of serving as a camp doctor for al-Qaeda on its front lines.[citation needed] A later review of Guantanamo assessments showed that they are unreliable, for example, contained allegations that were not supported by the underlying source document upon which they relied. (p. 9)[5]
Now his New York lawyers are arguing a novel twist in a war-on-terror habeas corpus petition at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Rather than ask Chief Judge Royce Lamberth to judge what Idris did or did not do before he got to Guantánamo, they argue he's too fat, too crazy and too physically sick to be a danger in the future. So Lamberth should send him home.