Adel Noori

Who is Adel Noori?

Adel Noori is an Uyghur refugee best known for the more than seven years he was wrongly imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 584. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report that he was born on November 12, 1979 in Xing Xiang, China.

Adel Noori is one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it became clear early on that they were innocent.

He won his habeas corpus in 2008. Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the United States. But the Obama administration refused to grant Noori asylum and sent him to Palau in October 2009.