Sufyian Barhoumi

Sufyian Ibn Muhammad Barhoumi is an Algerian man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Barhoumi had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf, Civil Action No. 05-cv-1506, by pro bono attorneys from Holland & Hart LLP.

The Department of Defense reports that he was born on July 28, 1973, in Algiers, Algeria.

Sufyian Barhoumi arrived at Guantanamo on June 18, 2002, and was held at Guantanamo for nearly 20 years.

Barhoumi is among the small number of captives who faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

Sufyian Barhoumi and Abdul Latif Nasir tried to file emergency requests to be transferred from Guantanamo in the final days of Barack Obama's Presidency.

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.

In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still

A five-page JTF-GTMO assessment was drafted on June 11, 2004.

It was signed by camp commandant Jay W. Hood, who recommended continued detention.

On July 6, 2004, United States President

Bush ordered that Sufyian Barhoumi be charged before a military commission.

The appointing authority approved the charges against Sufyian on 4 November 2005.

Barhoumi faced the charge of "Conspiracy".

His five-page charge sheet listed thirteen general allegations, that were essentially identical to those of Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, and Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi.

Sufyian Barhoumi, Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, and two other captives, Binyam Ahmed Muhammad, and Omar Khadr had their charges confirmed on the same day as Barhoumi.

Sufyian Barhoumi, Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, and Binyam Ahmed Muhammad all faced conspiracy charges.

Omar Khadr faced both murder and conspiracy to murder charges.

In July 2006, after considering Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the President lacked the Constitutional Authority to order Military Commissions.

The Supreme Court ruled that only the United States Congress had the authority to order Military Commissions.

So the charges against all ten men were dropped.

held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain

common allegations:

On May 29, 2008,

Barhoumi,

Jabran al-Qathani

On September 24, 2009, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer had ruled that the USA could continue to hold Sufiyan in Guantanamo.

While the ruling was announced, its text remained classified.

When he assumed office in January 2009, President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo.

He promised to close the camp within a year of his inauguration.

He promised the use of torture would cease at the camp.

He promised to institute a new review system.

That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense.

When it reported back, a year later, the Joint Review Task Force classified some individuals as too dangerous to be transferred from Guantanamo, even though there was no evidence to justify laying charges against them.

His case was appealed before a panel of judges, who confirmed Collyer's decision on June 10, 2010.

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.

On April 9, 2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request.

Sufiyan Barhoumi was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release.