Adel Noori

Adel Noori is a Uyghur refugee who was wrongly imprisoned for more than 7 years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.

His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 584.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report that he was born on November 12, 1979, in Xinjiang, China.

Adel Noori is one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.

on July 1, 2005.

The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

The following primary factors favor continued detention

The following primary factors favor release or transfer

England authorized his transfer on October 22, 2005.

On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff, the Department of Defense published a single page Summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Adel Noori was one of the petitioners in Mohammon v. Bush, Civil Action No. 05-2386.

In September 2007, the Department of Justice published dossiers of unclassified documents arising from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives.

The Department of Defense withheld Adel Noori's documents when they published the documents from the other 179 habeas petitioner's CSR Tribunals.

In early September 2007, the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon R. England, the Designated Civilian Official.

The Board's recommendation was unanimous

The Board's recommendation was redacted.

He won his habeas corpus in 2008.

Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered that he be set free in the United States.

Noori was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee.

Noori's memo accused him of the following:

Noori chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

On July 18, 2008, George M. Clarke III informed the US District Court that:

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings.

These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for

Adel Noori's Administrative Review Board,

On June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court restored the Guantanamo captives' access to the USA's civilian justice system in its ruling on Boumediene v. Bush.

Specifically it re-initiated the captives' habeas corpus petitions.

In an unrelated development Huzaifa Parhat's DTA appeal concluded that his Combatant Status Review Tribunal had erred in confirming he was an "enemy combatant", due to insufficient evidence.

The Department of Justice had the option of appealing the ruling, claiming it had new evidence.

The Uyghurs' habeas petitions were the first to be scheduled for review.

In September 2008, days before the Department of Justice would have been expected to offer a justification in court for the Uyghurs' detention, and after six and half years of extrajudicial detention, the Department of Justice acknowledged the evidence to justify their detention did not exist.

In June 2009 the government of Palau announced that they would offer temporary asylum to some of the Uyghurs.

The government of Palau sent a delegation to Guantanamo, and interviewed some of the remaining Uyghurs.

Some of the Uyghurs declined to be interviewed by the Palauans.

In the end the government of Palau offered asylum to twelve of the remaining thirteen Uyghurs.

Palau declined to offer asylum to one of the Uyghurs who suffered from a mental disorder, brought on by detention, that was too profound to be treated in Palau.

On October 31, 2009, Adel Noori, Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, and Dawut Abdurehim were released and transferred to Palau.

Noori worked as a security guard at the Palau Community College.