Global InformationShawki Awad Balzuhair information
| Shawki Awad Balzuhair | |
|---|---|
 Shawqi Awad Ba Zahir's identity portrait, showing him wearing the white uniform issued to compliant individuals | |
| Born | July 24, 1981[1][2] Hadhramaut, Yemen |
| Arrested | 2002-9-11 Karachi, Pakistan Pakistani security officials |
| Released | 2016-12-04 Cape Verde |
| Citizenship | Yemen |
| Detained at | CIA black sites, Guantanamo |
| ISN | 838 |
| Charge(s) | extrajudicial detention |
| Status | A former "forever prisoner", transferred to Cape Verde on December 4, 2016 |
Shawki Awad Balzuhair (born July 24, 1981) is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[3] His detainee ID number is 838. The Department of Defense reports that Balzuhair was born on July 24, 1981, in Hadhramaut, Yemen.
Prior to his transfer to Guantanamo, Balzuhair spent a month in the CIA's archipelago of black sites, where torture was routinely practiced.[4]
Initially the United States claimed Balzuhair and five other men seized in Karachi formed an underground al-Qaeda cell they called the "Karachi Six".[5] Eventually analysts would acknowledge that this cell had never existed.[6][7][8]
- ^ https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82919-isn-838-shawki-awad-balzuhair-jtf-gtmo-detainee/293fae9c76160cd8/full.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://www.prs.mil/Portals/60/Documents/ISN838/20160128_U_ISN_838_GOVERNMENTS_UNCLASSIFIED_SUMMARY_PUBLIC.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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