Boumediene, Lakhdar, 1966-

LC control no.	no2016153261
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Boumediene, Lakhdar, 1966- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Algeria Bosnia and Herzegovina France
Birth date	1966-04-27
Affiliation	Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
Found in	Boumediene, Lakhdar. Witnesses of the unseen, 2017: ECIP title page (Lakhdar Boumediene) data view (Lakhdar Boumediene, one of the "Algerian Six," was held in military custody at Guantanamo Bay for seven years (2002 - 2009). Boumediene is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, born and raised in Algeria. He was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush, and was then acquitted and released from Guantanamo. Prior to his captivity, he was an aid worker for the Red Crescent Society. He now lives in France with this family.) Wikipedia, Nov. 14, 2016 (Lakhdar Boumediene, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was held in military custody in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba beginning in January 2002. Boumediene was the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), a U.S. Supreme Court decision that Guantanamo detainees and other foreign nationals have the right to file writs of habeas corpus in U.S. federal courts. He and four other of the Algerian Six plaintiffs were released from Guantánamo on May 15, 2009 after a US Federal judge found that "the Bush administration relied on insufficient evidence to imprison them indefinitely as 'enemy combatants.'" He now lives in Provence, France, with his wife and children. b. April 27, 1966 in Aïn Soltane, Saïda, Algeria)