Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurayshi

Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurayshi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 176.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on May 29, 1972, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Al Qurayshi was repatriated on February 20, 2007 after more than six years without ever been charged.
==Identity==
Al Qurayshi was repatriated to Saudi Arabia, although his nationality is listed Yemeni on the two official lists of the names and nationalities the Department of Defense has released. 
list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006 list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
There is notable variance between how Al Qurayshi's name is transliterated on various official documents;
* He is named Majed Eidah Mohammed Al-Qurashi on the press release from the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, announcing his repatriation, on February 21, 2007.
* He is named Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurayshi on the official lists of detainee names and nationalities, released on April 20, 2006, and May 15, 2006, assert that Al Qurayshi was a citizen of Yemen.
* He is named Majid Idha Muhammad Al Subai Al Qurashi on a memorandum prepared for his first Administrative Review Board hearing, listing the factors for and against his continued detention.
==Combatant Status Review Tribunal==
Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.
Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.
===Summary of Evidence memo===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for 
Majid Idha Muhammad al-Suba Al Qurashi's
Combatant Status Review Tribunal, 
on 10 August 2004.
The memo listed the following allegations against him:
===Transcript===
There is no record that
Majid Idha Muhammad al-Suba Al Qurashi participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
==Administrative Review Board hearings==
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant". 
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free. 
===First annual Administrative Review Board===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Majid Idha Muhammad Al Suba I Al Qurashi's first annual Administrative Review Board.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
===Second annual Administrative Review Board===
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for 
Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurasyshi's second annual
Administrative Review Board, 
on 9 July 2006.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
====Transcript====
Captive 176 did not attend this hearing.
OARDEC distributed a four page summarized transcript of the Board's unclassified session.
The transcript records the Designated Military Officer reading out eight factors favoring his continued detention, and four factors favoring release or transfer.
Captive 176's Assisting Military Officer responded:
The Presiding Officer of captive 176's Board ruled that the allegation about the Casio watch should be included, after all, to provide context.
The Assisting Military Officer told the Board they met on July 12, 2006. The Assisting 
Military Officer described captive 176 as "inattentive throughout the interview.
The Assisting Military Officer told the Board that captive 176 was wearing a tan uniform.
===Board recommendations===
In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.
The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his transfer on February 14, 2007.
==Repatriation==
Seven Saudis were repatriated to Saudi custody on February 21, 2007. The Saudi embassy in Washington identified one of the seven men as Majed Eidah Mohammed Al-Qurashi.
Saudi authorities are detaining the seven men, without charge, in Hayer Prison, until they determine whether there is evidence to charge them with crimes under Saudi law.
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:1972 births
Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Category:People from Mecca