Djamel Ameziane

Djamel Ameziane

Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane is an Algerian citizen, and former resident of Canada, who is currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report that he was born on April 14, 1967, in Algiers.

With the assistance of a legal team led by Burlington, Vermont attorney Robert D. Rachlin, Ameziane launched a writ of habeas corpus, Civil Action No. 05-392. Rachlin has said: "There's nothing here that shows that he so much as held a firearm or did anything against the United States -- he's one of those guys who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. There's nothing more here than guilt by association."

As of August 18, 2011, Djamel Saiid Ali Amezian has been held at Guantanamo for 9.5 years.

Read more about Djamel Ameziane:  Life, Interrogated By Canadian Security Officials in Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Petition, Press Reports, Calls For His Release