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Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry is a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian, captured in Afghanistan with the Taliban, transferred to the prison at US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al Shedry was 15 years old when captured. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ... ... Map of Cuba with location of Guantánamo Bay indicated. ...
In January 2005, his family received a letter from al Shedry, wherein he apologized for his errors in traveling to Afghanistan and asked them to find him a wife. Al Shedry's attorney, Kateb al Shammary, argues that the fact that his client is seeking a finacee demonstrates his innocence.
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Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Marriage, Arab News, May 5, 2005
The Kids of Guantanamo, cageprisoners, June 6, 2005
AbdulSalamMureefGhaithanAlShehri, a Saudi citizen who was fifteen when he was captured, celebrated his eighteenth birthday in Guantanamo Bay, in late April 2005.
In an interview broadcast on the BBC on September 9, 2005, Clive Stafford Smith, a prominent British human rights lawyer who represents thirty seven Guantanamo detainees, reported that the continued incarceration of children at Guantanamo Bay was one of the triggers for the hunger strikes that had taken place during the summer of 2005.
Other detainees who have been determined not to be illegal combatants, including Sami Al Laithi, continued to be detained back in Camp Delta.
AbdulSalam Gaithan MureefAlShehry is a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian, captured in Afghanistan with the Taliban, transferred to the prison at US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In January 2005, his family received a letter from al Shedry, wherein he apologized for his errors in traveling to Afghanistan and asked them to find him a wife.
Al Shedry's attorney, Kateb al Shammary, argues that the fact that his client is seeking a finacee demonstrates his innocence.
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