Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri
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Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri is a citizen of Morocco currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's[1] Shokuri reports his date of birth as April 5, 1968. The Department of Defense reports that he was born in Asafi, Morocco.
As of August, 2011, Shokuri has been held at Guantanamo for nine years three months.[2]
Press reports
On July 12, 2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of the Guantanamo detainees.[3] Shokuri was one of the detainees profiled. According to the article his transcript contained the following comment:
- [T]he only way I know the United States is through movies from Hollywood or through cartoons. I’m a big fan of a lot of their singers…. [T]he first time I saw an American soldier was at Kandahar Air Base…. When I first saw myself in Kandahar, it was like I was in a cinema or a movie. I saw a 1996 movie called The Siege. The movie was about terrorists carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States…. [In the movie] the CIA and FBI were not successful in finding that terrorist group and the United States Army interfered and gathered all the people of Arabic descent and put them in a land cage or camp just like it happened in Kandahar. I was shocked, thinking, “Am I in that movie or on a stage in Hollywood?”… Sometimes I laugh at myself and say, “When does that movie end?”
Habeas corpus petition
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Shokuri had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf.
On 15 July 2008 Jan K. Kitchel filed a "PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR 30-DAY NOTICE OF REMOVAL OR TRASFER" on Shokuri's behalf in Civil Action No. CV 05-0329 (HHK). [4] The petition would prevent the Department of Defense from transferring him out of US jurisdiction without giving his attorney's thirty days notice. The Department of Defense had transferred some captives to countries where they were subsequently subjected to abusive treatment—even though they had active habeas corpus petitions.
References
- ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
- ↑ "Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/197-yunis-abdurrahman-shokuri.
- ↑ "Why Am I in Cuba?", Mother Jones (magazine), July 12, 2006
- ↑ Jan K. Kitchel (2008-07-15). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 64 -- PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR 30-DAY NOTICE OF REMOVAL OR TRASFER". United States Department of Justice. http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/64/0.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-12. mirror
External links
- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2) Andy Worthington, September 22, 2010
- Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri - biography
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