User:Geo Swan/Amir Mohamed Meshal

Amir Mohamed Meshal is an American citizen who claims he was held in extrajudicial detention in Kenya, in a camp partially run by American security officials, in 2007.

African trip
Meshal says he travelled to Somalia, in 2006, to study the Koran. In early 2007 a military force largely consisting of soldiers from neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, invaded Somalia, with US backing. Meshal says that, like thousands of foreigners and other refugees he fled the warzone for Kenya, where he was promptly imprisoned.

Capture and extrajudicial detention
After fleeing Somalia, for Kenya, Meshal was visited by US officials. He was then flown to Ethiopia with dozens of other captives, who had never been charged with a crime, in Kenya.

Pursuit of accountability
When he took his case to an appeals court, in 2015, it confirmed that American security officials could not be held to account for the illegal detention of US citizens, overseas, when they claimed a national security justification.