Mustafa al-Hassan

Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa Al Hassan is a citizen of Sudan, who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 719. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Al Hassan was born in 1957, in Al-Manakil, Sudan.

Combatant Status Review

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal:

a. The detainee supported the Taliban.

1. The detainee departed Sudan to Pakistan en route to fight the jihad in Afghanistan.
2. The detainee supports the Taliban.
3. The detainee is associated with the Dawa wa Irshad non-governmental organization.
4. Dawa wa Irshad is a terrorist organization.

On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a ten page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2][3][4]

Administrative Review Board

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 may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.^[5]

First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa Al Hassan's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 7 July 2005.^[6] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa Al Hassan's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 27 March 2006.^[7] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

Repatriation

The Department of Defense reported on 8 October 2008 that an Algerian and a Sudanese had just been repatriated.^[8][9] Later that day the Associated Press reported that the Sudanese captive was Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa Al Hassan.^[10][11][12] Mustafa reported that he personally witnessed Koran desecration while in US custody, which he described as part of "all kinds of torture". At a press conference Mustafa asserted:

"The torture would never stop until you say you have participated in the war against the Americans."[11] "When the investigators were interrogating me when I told them I went there to trade and I went there to study, they hit me, they tortured me. They were torturing us with electricity and they made us walk on sharp objects. They hit us a lot, and because of the pain we just said anything."[12]

Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Guantanamo spokesman, disputed Mustafa had been abused at Guantanamo.^[10][11]

"Al-Qaida operatives and their supporters typically try to garner public sympathy by publicizing allegations of abuse."

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