Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair

Who is Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair?

Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair is a citizen of Saudi Arabia formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

On August 13, 2008 it was reported that Ahmed Zaid Zuhair had been on a hunger strike since June 2005. Two other long-term hunger strikers died under mysterious circumstances in June 2006.

On March 18, 2009, camp authorities declined to agree to moving Zuhair to Camp 4 from Camp 6 in return for his ending his hunger strike.

In December 2008, an Administrative Review Board cleared Zuhair for release from Guantanamo. On May 22, 2009 Zuhair was cleared for transfer once again by the Inter-Agency Review process established by President Obama. He was repatriated to Saudi Arabia on June 12, 2009.