{"id":331095,"date":"2017-06-24T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331095"},"modified":"2017-06-24T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T08:35:56","slug":"ex-gitmo-detainee-bin-atef-down-with-malaria-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/ex-gitmo-detainee-bin-atef-down-with-malaria-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"ex Gitmo detainee Bin Atef down with malaria \u2013 Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the strain of the uncertainty of his continued stay in Ghana and dealing with separation from his wife, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef, one of the ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted by Ghana, is currently dealing with malaria.<\/p>\n<p>A legal representative of Bin Atef, George Clark, revealed to <strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Umaru Sanda that his client was down with the ailment, as he processes the judgment from the Supreme Court <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=FdvOd3NJY8:331040:2934:13:::sidebar:594d7b2e25db62-07009659\">declaring<\/a><\/strong><\/span> his stay in Ghana illegal.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;AzLoMtoDbRqHDKoad6dCP84I9paPEF7M&#8221;]&#8221;He is ill as well so it is a double problem,&#8221; George Clark said, as he also conveyed\u00a0Bin Atef&#8217;s worry over the decision.<\/p>\n<p>This notwithstanding, George Clark\u00a0said he did not expect\u00a0Bin Atef to be sent back to Yemen, which has been battered by civil strife since with the 2011\u201312 revolution against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,600 people are reported to have been killed and 42,000 injured since March 2015 alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure that he is worried about that. Repatriating him to Yemen would be contrary to international law because of the armed conflict in Yemen, so I don\u2019t think that is going to happen,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>The government continues to have <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/22\/gitmo-2-have-comported-themselves-well-govt\/\">a tight leash<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Bin Atef, a situation\u00a0George Clark also said was not the best for his client, who he said wants to be &#8220;able to work and be\u00a0productive and things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni has however been able to get married during his short stay in Ghana. <strong>Citi News<\/strong> has confirmed that his\u00a0wife is named Haia, is also a Yemen national. They tied the knot about two and a half months ago, reportedly with close family in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This worry could be traced back to the decision of two Ghanaian citizens to sue\u00a0the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, together with the Minister of Interior, accusing then-President John Mahama of illegally bringing in the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees, without recourse to the laws of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Bin Atef, along with one other, Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, was under detention in US custody for 14 years after being linked with terrorist group Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>They <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=bTMasy4W96:179720:2934:13:::sidebar:594d827150d129-02912303\">were brought<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to Ghana in January\u00a02016 to live here for a period as part of Obama administration&#8217;s plan to close down\u00a0Guantanamo Bay prison.<\/p>\n<p>Their stay in Ghana has been extremely low profile, in sharp contrast to the protests that met their arrival, with many saying their presence in Ghana opened the country up to terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Both the US and Ghana governments did their best <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/07\/us-grateful-ghana-received-yemeni-guantanamo-ex-convicts\/\">to calm fears<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of terror attacks upon their arrival, and in their only noted media appearance till date,\u00a0one of the ex-detainees, indicated exitement at moving to Ghana\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/11\/we-love-asamoah-gyan-ex-gitmo-detainees\/\">their love<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for Black Stars captain Asamoah\u00a0Gyan.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that other inmates in Guantanamo supported Ghana during the\u00a02010\u00a0World Cup, where Gyan famously scored the winner in a knock-out tie against the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians are very good people. We are very excited to come to Ghana because we know some of the things about Ghana. First of all there is Asamoah Gyan, we know him, we like him very much, not just us, most of our people like him,\u201d they\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the strain of the uncertainty of his continued stay in Ghana and dealing with separation from his wife, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef, one of the ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted by Ghana, is currently dealing with malaria. 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