page_title: Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
section_title: Idris's health
hierarchical_section_title: Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris / Idris's health
caption_attribution_description: English: Camp one Guantanamo has a lounge for captives to phone home.
context_page_description: Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris is a citizen of Sudan, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
  His detainee ID number is 036.
  In July 2013, a motion was filed seeking his release because his physical and emotional health had deteriorated to the point where he could not pose a threat.
  On October 3, 2013, Ben Fox, of the Associated Press, reported that the United States Department of Justice had dropped its opposition to Idris's repatriation.
  His entry in the official list of Guantanamo captives asserts he was born in Hathramaut, Yemen, but his formerly secret Guantanamo assessment asserts he was born in Port Sudan, Sudan.
  According to a formerly secret Guantanamo assessment, he is a medical doctor and suspected of serving as a camp doctor for al-Qaeda on its front lines. A later review of Guantanamo assessments showed that they are unreliable, for example,
  contained allegations that were not supported by the underlying source document upon which they relied.
context_section_description: A July 2013 habeas corpus filing argued that he should be repatriated because he had health problems so severe that he could never pose a threat to the USA—even if he wanted to.
  Summarizing the report, Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald noted that he had been diagnosed with mental health problems shortly after his arrival in Guantanamo in 2002.  He had since been diagnosed as having "schizophrenia, disorganized type."  Rosenberg described how, when he was last scheduled to have a phone call to his habeas attorney, and was brought to the phone room, he was too confused to realize he should raise the phone's handset to his face.
  Idris is reported to have occasional "lucid periods," but at other times he has fits of laughter, for no reason, sings at random, and wears his underwear on his head, and that his bizarre behavior disturbed his fellow prisoners.
  The habeas filing said that Idris was now morbidly obese, had diabetes, and circulatory problems.
  According to Rosenberg, if the habeas motion succeeded, and he was repatriated, Sudan's culture and health infrastructure was insufficient for there to be any hope he would recover.
  Idris was transferred to Sudan on December 19, 2013.
caption: Idris's "disorganized schizophrenia" is so profound that when he was brought to a phone room, like this one, he was too confused to understand he was expected to pick up the phone's handset.[2]
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