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Mohammed Nechle

Mohammed Nechle

1968

Nationality
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mohammed Nechle (born 2 April 1968) is a Bosnian citizen who was wrongly held for almost seven years as an "enemy combatant" in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Nechle was born in Algeria and immigrated to Bosnia in the 1990s.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
    Dates unknown
  2. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Mohammed Nechle (born 2 April 1968) is a Bosnian citizen who was wrongly held for almost seven years as an "enemy combatant" in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Nechle was born in Algeria and immigrated to Bosnia in the 1990s. Nechle became a Bosnian citizen, and married a Bosnian woman. Nechle was working for the Red Crescent at the time of al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. He won his habeas corpus and US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon wrote that there was no evidence that Nechle intended to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against US forces. Judge Leon declared Nechle's detention as unlawful and ordered his release in November 2008. He was released from Guantanamo and returned to his family in Bosnia on 16 December 2008.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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