Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair

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subject_name = Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1973
place_of_birth = Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 669
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charge = No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair is a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2006-05-15
quote=] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 669.

On August 13 2008 it was reported that Ahmed Zaid Zuhair had been on a hunger strike since June 2005, and that guards had recently threatened to kill him if he didn't end his strike.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/639171.html
title=Gitmo hunger striker claims guards threatened him
publisher=Miami Herald
author=
date=2008-08-13
accessdate=2008-08-12
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2FAP%2Fstory%2F639171.html&date=2008-08-12 mirror] ] Two other long-term hunger strikers died under mysterious circumstances in June 2006.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared forAhmad Zayid Salim Zuhayri'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal on 26 October 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#32
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Zuhayri, Ahmad Zayid Salim
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=2004-10-26
accessdate=2008-08-12
page=page 32
quote= ] The memo listed the following allegations:

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The following primary factors favor transfer or release:

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Hunger strike

In May 2008 the "Gulf News" reported that Zuhair and Abdul Rahman Shalabi are the two remaining captives who have been on the hunger strike that started in Auguat 2005. [cite news
url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/05/24/10215620.html
title=Saudi vows to stay on hunger strike at Guantanamo
publisher=Gulf News
author=
date=2008-05-23
accessdate=2008-10-02
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.gulfnews.com%2Farticles%2F08%2F05%2F24%2F10215620.html&date=2008-10-02 mirror] ]

Death threats

Zuhair wrote a letter to his attorneys on July 18 2008 stating that Guantanamo guards had searched his cell, confiscated some of his correspondence with his attorneys, and threatened to kill him if he did not drop his habeas petition.cite news
url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/guantanamo-detainee-accuses-us-guards-of-threatening-to-kill-and-maim-him_10098968.html
title=Guantanamo detainee accuses US guards of threatening to kill and maim himpublisher=Thaindian
author=
date=2008-09-23
accessdate=2008-09-26
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thaindian.com%2Fnewsportal%2Findia-news%2Fguantanamo-detainee-accuses-us-guards-of-threatening-to-kill-and-maim-him_10098968.html&date=2008-09-26 mirror] ]

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