Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Alkinani ( born October 28 , 1956 ) is a citizen of Egypt who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp s , in Cuba . His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 287 . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter - terrorism analysts report he was born on October 28 , 1956 in Shubrakass Egypt . Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy was transferred to Egypt on September 30 , 2005 . Background . Prior to the Invasion of Afghanistan Al Laithi was teaching English and Arabic at Kabul University . During his stay at Camp Delta Al Laithi was rendered a paraplegic . Al Laithi says shortly after his arrival in Cuba , during a beating administered in the prison hospital , a guard threw him on the floor , and stomped on his back . He says he has been in constant pain ever since . Al Laithi says the beating crushed two of his vertebrae , confining him to a wheelchair . He says he believes that the prison authorities denied him medical care that would have prevented him being crippled . Al Laithi is one of the small percentage of Guantanamo detainees who , during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal , was determined not to have been an " enemy combatant " after all . Al Laithi has a long record of criticism of the Egyptian government . He does not wish the Americans to return him to Egypt , now that they have determined that he has no ties to terrorism . As of September 2005 he remained confined to Camp Delta . Al Laithi ' s lawyer , Clive Stafford Smith , has asked for Al Laithi to get medical care for his injuries , for the release of his prison medical records , and for him to be released from solitary confinement . Al Lathi remained in solitary confinement , after he had been determined to have been an innocent bystander , unlike the detainees who had been determined to have been Chinese dissidents , who were housed in the more amenable Camp Iguana . Combatant Status Review . On March 3 , 2006 , in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a seven page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal . Allegations as read aloud during his Tribunal . The allegations , as read aloud during his Tribunal , differed markedly from those recorded on his Summary of Evidence memo : Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant . The Washington Post reports that Al Laithy was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal . The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants . habeas corpus petitions . At least three separate writs of habeas corpus were filed on his behalf . US District Court Judges Reggie Walton , Kennedy and Leon considered his detention as part of three separate habeas cases : Mohammon v . Bush , Sliti v . Bush and Aziz v . Bush . He was identified as " Alla Al Mossary " , " Abdul Aziz Al Mossary " and " Abu Abdul Aziz " . on those three separate habeas petitions . In September 2007 the United States Department of Defense published 179 dossiers in response to captives ' habeas petitions . But they did not publish his . Repatriation to Egypt . In early October American authorities announced that they had repatriated an Egyptian national back to his home country . Press reports quoted American authorities as saying that the Egyptian had been determined to no longer pose a security threat through an " Administrative Review " — the follow - on to the Combatant Status Review Tribunal . But on October 5 , 2005 , a Washington Post article positively identified the Egyptian being repatriated as Al Laithi . The Post quoted Commander Flex Plexico , who said : According to the article Pentagon spokesmen claimed : Al Laithi was interviewed by a reporter for Al Ahram on October 26 , 2005 . In his interview he said that before he was repatriated to Egypt he was sent , briefly , to an American hospital , for an assessment . He reports that the medical records he was given , upon his repatriation , say the loss of the use of his legs was progressive , not sudden . They say it was the result of a traffic accident , before his detention . Al Laithi continues to claim the loss was due to brutal treatment while in custody . He claims the records are a forgery . Guantanamo medical records . On March 16 , 2007 the Department of Defense published records of the captives ' height and weights .