Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai

Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush
date=January 31 2007
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Reggie B. Walton
accessdate=May 19
accessyear=2007]

Habeas corpus submissions

Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31 2007.cite web
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/order_RBW_20070131.pdf
title=Gherebi, et al. v. Bush
date=January 31 2007
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Reggie B. Walton
accessdate=2007-05-09] Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai is represented by David W. DeBruin in Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai v. George Walker Bush -- Civil Action No. 05-1667 (RBW).cite news
url=http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/law-lib/law-lib.log0701/att-0174/01-GITMO_AttyList.pdf
title=Lead Petitioners' Counsel in Guantanamo Habeas Cases
publisher=Center for Constitutional Rights
date=Monday, January 8, 2007
accessdate=2008-06-11
quote=]

On April 17 2007 the Department of Justice listed his habeas petition as one which should be deemed moot, because he had been transferred from US custody.cite news
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf#60
title=Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody
pages=pages 60-63
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=
date=April 17 2007
accessdate=2008-05-05
quote=]

Official list

The Department of Defense initially planned to keep the identities of the Guantanamo captives secret. But the DoD was forced, by court order to release a list of the captive's names on May 15 2006.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
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] Abdalhadi M. Al-Sopai is notable because even though he is clearly in detention in Guantanamo his name is missing from the official lists, at least by that spelling.

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