Abdul Al - Rahim Ghulam Rabbani Abdul Al - Rahim Ghulam Rabbani is a citizen of Pakistan currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp s , in Cuba . American Intelligence analysts estimated that Rabbani was born in 1969 . Abdul Rabbani Abd al Rahim Abu Rahman arrived at Guantanamo on September 20 , 2004 , and has been held at Guantanamo for . Detention in " the salt pit " . According to Laid Saidi , Rabbani , and his brother , Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani , were being held in the CIA black site known as " the salt pit " at the same time as him . Official status reviews . Originally , the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the " " war on terror " " were not protected by the Geneva Conventions , and could be held indefinitely , without explanation . However , in 2004 , the United States Supreme Court ruled , in Rasul v . Bush , that the captives were entitled to hear the allegations that justified their detention , and to try to refute those allegations . Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants . In 2004 , in response to the Supreme Court ' s ruling in Rasul v . Bush , the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants . Documents from those reviews were published in response to Freedom of Information Act requests . Scholars at the Brookings Institute , lead by Benjamin Wittes , listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008 , according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations : Habeas petition . A habeas submission was submitted on his behalf to US District Court Judge Ricardo M . Urbina . In response , on December 13 , 2005 the Department of Defense published a fourteen page dossier of unclassified documents arising from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal . His Summary of Evidence memo was drafted on November 10 , 2004 . The documents indicate a USAF Major , his Personal Representative , recorded on the detainee election form that they met for half an hour on 17 November 2004 to discuss his upcoming Tribunal . His Personal Representative ' s notes state he chose not to attend his Tribunal . Tribunal panel 21 convened 23 November 2004 and confirmed his " enemy combatant status " . The decision memo drafted by the Tribunal states it reached this conclusion based on classified evidence . Unusually this Tribunal was not convened in Guantanamo , and the Personal Representative who met with him was not present . The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation as to why this Tribunal was not convened in Guantanamo . His name is spelled both as " Abdul Al - Rahim Ghulam Rabbani " and " Abu Rahim Moulana Gulam Rabbani " in the document . Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment . On April 25 , 2011 , whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts . His assessment was twelve pages long , and recommended his continued detention . It was signed by camp commandant David M . Thomas Jr . and was dated June 8 , 2008 . Hunger strike . Rabbani and his brother participated in the hunger strike that started on August 8 , 2005 . References . < div class = " references - small " >