Jumah al-Dossari

Jumah al-Dossari’s poem is read here by Riz Ahmed, the actor who appeared in the film “Road to Guantánamo”. Jumah al-Dossari, who was released in 2007, was held in Guantánamo for more than five years and had been in solitary confinement since the end of 2003. He tried to kill himself more than a dozen times.

This poem was written as part of a suicide letter Jumah al-Dossari left for his lawyer when he had given up hope of ever seeing his family again. He is now in Saudi Arabia completing what the Saudi Arabian authorities refer to as a reform and rehabilitation programme for returned Guantánamo detainees.

I’m so glad that Jumah al-Dossari is home.  Interesting that Saudi Arabia has been able to obtain the return of 77 Saudi nationals.  And Canada cannot obtain the return of one.