Al-Qurashi v. Obama

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, District Judge.

Petitioner Sabry Mohammad Ebrahim al-Qurashi, a citizen of Yemen, was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan by Pakistani authorities on February 7, 2002. Several weeks later, he was taken into U.S. custody, assigned internment serial number (“ISN”) 570, and transferred first to Kandahar, Afghanistan and then to the naval base detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantanamo”), where he has been held since May 2002. Al-Qurashi has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that he is unlawfully detained. Respondents,…