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Tariq al-Sawah

Tariq al-Sawah

1957–2026

Nationality
Egypt

Incarceration history

Facilities

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

Biography

Tariq Mahmud Ahmad Muhammad al-Sawah (2 November 1957 – 31 March 2026), also spelled Tarek El Sawah, was a citizen of Egypt who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, from May 2002 to January 2016. Al-Sawah was charged with war crimes, but those charges were dismissed on 1 March 2012. According to the Egypt Independent, formerly secret documents, drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and published by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks in 2011, contradicted the charges al-Sawah had faced.

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