Muktar Yahya Najee al-Warafi
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Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.
The Department of Defense estimate that Al Warafi was born in 1974, in Ta'iz, Yemen.
Muktar Yahya Najee al Warafi was held at Guantanamo from 2002 to January 13, 2016.
Official status reviews
Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.
In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are associated with the Taliban."
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."
Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ...
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