Djamel Ameziane

Who is Djamel Ameziane?

Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane is an Algerian citizen, and former resident of Canada, who is being held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

With the assistance of a legal team led by the Burlington, Vermont attorney Robert D. Rachlin, Ameziane launched a writ of habeas corpus, Civil Action No. 05-392 in 2005. Rachlin said in 2006 in relation to material released from the Administrative Review Board on Ameziane:

"There's nothing here that shows that he so much as held a firearm or did anything against the United States -- he's one of those guys who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. There's nothing more here than guilt by association."

As of today, Djamel Saiid Ali Amezian has been held at Guantanamo for 11 years.