Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa
Guantanamo detainee
Salman Ebrahim is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
The Department of Defense reports that Al Khalifa was born on July 24, 1979, in Rifah, Bahrain. He is a member of the Al Khalifa royal family of Bahrain, related to the king of Bahrain.
Al Khalifa is a second cousin of the King of Bahrain.
Al Khalifa, like the other Bahrainis held in Guantanamo, has Joshua Colangelo-Bryan as his lawyer.
Official status reviews
Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to any captives apprehended in the "war on terror", and that these individuals could be held indefinitely without any open review of their status.
However, in 2004, in Rasul v. Bush the United States Supreme Court ruled the captives had to be given an opportunity to hear the justifications for their detention, and an opportunity to try to refute those allegations.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Following the Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush, the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants, which conducted annual reviews, which were, in theory, open to members of the press.
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