Adil Hadi Al Jazairi Bin Hamlili
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Adil Hadi bin Hamlili (born 26 June 1976 in Oran, Algeria) is an Algerian citizen who was detained by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba without formal charges (Internment Serial Number 1452). U.S. authorities alleged he was an al-Qaeda facilitator, financier, assassin, and informant for Western intelligence agencies, including the British MI6 and Canada’s CSIS. Cleared as "no threat" by the Obama administration’s Guantanamo Review Task Force, he was repatriated to Algeria on 20 January 2010 and subsequently acquitted of terrorism charges by an Algerian court on 21 February 2010.


Identity

Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili's name was spelled inconsistently on various documents released by the
United States Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and superv ...
: ''Adil Hadial Al Jazairi Bin Hamlili'' on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 16 November 2004. ''Adil Hadi Al-Jaza'iri Bin Hamlili'' on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first and second annual Administrative Review Board, on 25 August 2005 and on 7 September 2006.


Combatant Status Review Tribunal

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Adil Hadial Al Jazairi Bin Hamlili's
Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as " enemy combatants". The CSRTs were establi ...
, on 16 November 2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him: There is no record that Bin Hamlili participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.


Administrative Review Board hearing


First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Adil Hadi Al-Jaza'iri Bin Hamlili's first annual
Administrative Review Board The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the detainees held by the United States in Camp Delta at the United States Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The purpose o ...
, on 25 August 2005. The memo was published in September 2007. It listed 44 "primary factors favoring continued detention", and 2 "primary factors favoring release or transfer".


Transcript

Bin Hamlili participated in his first annual Administrative Review Board.


Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Adil Hadi Al-Jaza'iri Bin Hamlili's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 7 September 2006. The memo was published in September 2007. It listed 44 "primary factors favoring continued detention", and 9 "primary factors favoring release or transfer".


Guantanamo Medical records

On 16 March 2007 the
Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...
published medical records for the captives. According to those records Adil Hadi bin Hamlili was 68 inches tall. According to those records his weight was recorded 29 times between September 2004 and December 2006. According to those records his weight ranged from 151 to 203 pounds. Those records indicated he gained 29 pounds between 20 September 2005 and 22 September. Those records indicated he lost 45 pounds between 11 and 17 July 2006.


Habeas corpus petition

Bin Hamlily had a
habeas corpus ''Habeas corpus'' (; from Medieval Latin, ) is a legal procedure invoking the jurisdiction of a court to review the unlawful detention or imprisonment of an individual, and request the individual's custodian (usually a prison official) to ...
petition filed on his behalf in 2005.mirror
/ref> The Department of Defense published documents from the CSR Tribunals of 179 captives; they did not publish any of his habeas documents.


Military Commissions Act

The
Military Commissions Act of 2006 The Military Commissions Act of 2006, also known as HR-6166, was an Act of Congress signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. The Act's stated purpose was "to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of ...
mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.


Boumediene v. Bush

On 12 June 2008, the
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ruled, in ''
Boumediene v. Bush ''Boumediene v. Bush'', 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of ''habeas corpus'' petition made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by t ...
,'' that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for
Guantanamo captives The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...
to access the US Federal Court system. All previous Guantanamo captives' ''habeas'' petitions were eligible to be re-instated.


Habeas corpus re-initiated

Bin Hamlily's attorney's filed requests to re-initiate his habeas petition. According to a status report filed on 18 July 2008, bin Hamlily was captured in June 2003; Bin Hamliy was held for ten months in US custody in Kabul; Bin Hamliy was held for three to four months in the
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; Bin Hamlily was transferred to Guantanamo in 2004; Fellow Guantanamo captive
Shaker Aamer Shaker Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Aamer (; born 21 December 1966)Petition for Immediate Release (DTA) under the
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Hamlily v. Gates
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. On 1 July 2008, his attorneys filed an ''"Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus"''. The Government has not filed a "factual return" in his habeas petition. However, they have filed some response to his DTA petition.transferred to Guantanamo in 2004.


Return to Algeria

Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili and Hasan Zemiri were repatriated to Algeria on 20 January 2010.
Carol Rosenberg Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist at ''The New York Times.'' Long a military-affairs reporter at the ''Miami Herald'', from January 2002 into 2019 she reported on the operation of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, at its nav ...
, writing in the ''
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'', reported that it was not clear whether the two men had been sent home as free men, or whether they were transferred to Algerian custody. She noted that two other Algerians had been granted asylum, in France, as they had reason to fear a return home. His lawyer
Clive Stafford Smith Clive Adrian Stafford Smith (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against capital punishment in the United States. He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts, and helped foun ...
reported that in 2009, Hamlili was cleared by the Obama administration's review procedure, reflecting a finding that he was "no threat to the US or its coalition partners." With this finding, Hamlili was returned to Algeria on 20 January 2010, as a free man. Clive Stafford Smith said that Hamlili has suffered from a
psychotic disorder In psychopathology, psychosis is a condition in which a person is unable to distinguish, in their experience of life, between what is and is not real. Examples of psychotic symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized or incoher ...
, and other mental disabilities provoked by alleged abuse in US custody. In Algeria, Hamlili was tried on terrorism charges but acquitted on 21 February 2010.


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"Algeria court acquits former Gitmo inmate"
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, 21 February 2010
Two Algerian Torture Victims Are Freed from Guantánamo
Andy Worthington {{DEFAULTSORT:Bin Hamlili, Adil Hadi Algerian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Living people 1976 births Guantanamo detainees known to have been released People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States Algerian torture victims People from Oran Algerian expatriates in Pakistan People with psychotic disorder