Zalita V. Bush - Re-initiation

Re-initiation

On 8 December 2008 Shayana D. Kadidal and other lawyers associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights and Paul E. Ohern and other Department of Justice officials submitted a Joint Status Report on behalf of Zalita and several other captives. According to the Joint Status Report he was transferred to Guantanamo in August 2002, and his habeas petition was first filed in June 2005. He fears repatriation to Libya, and has requested asylum in Switzerland. According to the Joint Status Report:

"The Government has cleared him for transfer from Guantánamo, and has twice attempted to repatriate him to Libya, the country from which he fled to Afghanistan more than a decade ago in order to avoid religious persecution. Petitioner has a credible fear that he will be subject to imprisonment, torture and possible summary execution if he is forcibly returned to Libya, and he has resisted all attempts to repatriate him to that country. He remains detained in Camp 6, an isolation facility, more than six years after his detention and nearly two years after the Government’s first notice of intent to transfer him out of Guantánamo."