Fifth Detainee Reported Dead of Suicide June 1, 2009
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi a 31 year old prisoner from Yemen died in the camps on June 1, 2009.
On June 2, 2009 the Department of Defense reported that he committed suicide Camp officials did not allow journalists who were at the camp for Omar Khadr's Guantanamo military commission to report news of his death until they left Guantanamo.
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