Talk:Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah Mahdi

If this isn't Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi, some clarification needs to be made. -- Kendrick7 20:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * All the information profile (mental illness and so on) is consistent between the two sources of information (US military and Amnesty), except for the citizenship, and IMHO it's quite possible for either the US or Amnesty to have made a mistake on this. Yemen and Saudi Arabia share a border and presumably still have lots of nomadic groups or people who don't particularly want to identify totally with one State or the other, so it's possible IMHO that either he has double citizenship or that citizenship is an administrative fiction for him that he had to do to get on a plane to Afghanistan but doesn't mean much in practice. In the latter case, both the army and Amnesty chose whatever they thought was best for their interests.


 * i think i've merged most of the info from Abdullah into Abdallah. i suggest leaving it a bit to stabilise and i'd like to see someone double check it before changing the Abdullah entry into a redirect.


 * i have no idea which spelling of his name is correct - someone could read through Arabic name and try to guess what it should be in principle, though probably it's only his lawyer who could give a formal answer. In any case, the article Abdallah was longer so i merged into that one. i myself have no objections if someone swaps the other way, but please make sure there's a good reason for doing so.


 * Thanks for picking this up. Boud 21:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

archive of this page at the time of converting it to a redirect
i haven't seen much movement on this for quite some time so i assume the merge is uncontroversial.

In any case, here's an archive of the content before the redirect. Boud 00:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Mahdi, Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah is a Saudi Arabian national, detained in Guantanamo Bay from his initial detention in Afghanistan in 2001. As of early December 2005, he remains in detention.

Fawaz Mahdi has been held in custody for four years, without having any charges laid against him, in contrary to the 700 year old legal tradition of habeas corpus. He is believed to be mentally ill and is in need of medical treatment, but has not been allowed access to an independent doctor.

He was determined by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) to be an enemy combatant despite the fact that the CSRT itself (and also Fawaz' lawyer and he himself) observed that he suffers a form of mental illness, and that the only evidence for determining his status was his own statement.

On December 10, 2005, the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a letter-writing appeal to explain Mahdi's case to US authorities and request that he be either liberated or else charged with a criminal offense was launched by Amnesty International.