Kateb al Shammary is a Saudi Arabian lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in

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in the

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naval base at Guantanamo Bay,

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. One of his clients is

Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were clas ...

, who was just 15 years old when captured. Al Shammary has called on the United States to allow the detainees to face a fair trial: :''“As the United States wants its prisoners in Iraq to be treated according to the Geneva Conventions, we also demand and expect that our prisoners (at Guantanamo Bay) would receive similar treatment,”''

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