| Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun | |
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| Born | November 13, 1979 Ash Shihr, Yemen |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 576 |
| Status | Still held in Guantanamo Has been on a hunger strike for several years |
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's.[1] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 13, 1979, in Ash Shihr, Yemen.
As of August 14, 2011, Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun has been held at Guantanamo for nine years three months.[2]
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On February 11, 2009 US District Court judge Gladys Kessler declined to bar the use of restraint chairs for force-feeding Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon and Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir.[3] Kessler's noted that Bawazir and Hamdoon petition stated that the use of the restraint chair was "tantamount to torture". But she stated the opinion that because she lacked the medical expertise to evaluate the position of the camp's medical authorities she lacked jurisdiction to rule on the petition.
According to the Agence France Presse Bawazir and Hamdoon were not opposed to being force fed but they complained that they were strapped into a restraint chair with their arms, legs, chest and forehead fastened for about an hour. According to the Agence France Presse camp authorities are withholding medical treatment for their other ailments from the hunger strikers, in an attempt to pressure them to quit their strike.
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