January 16th, 2008
TO
PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA
Dear President Elect,
Re Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri
I write to ask what you are going to do about my brother, and when? He is Ali Al-Marri, the only man being held on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant, at Charleston Naval Brig, South Carolina.
I was myself kidnapped and unlawfully detained in Guantanamo Bay without any justification ever being given, for more than 6 years. I was finally released last summer.
Throughout that time I was subjected to appalling treatment in repeated attempts to coerce me into providing untrue evidence against my brother. He meanwhile, a law abiding student, has been held as an “enemy combatant” within the United States itself without trial and in a naval brig. He is the only person being so held. His treatment has been as bad as or worse than mine, throughout precisely the same period of time.
I read of your commitment to close Guantanamo Bay and disperse those detained there. I ask you for a straightforward equivalent commitment, to send my brother home to his family now.
Sincerely,
Jarallah S. K. Al-Marri
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