Cases: Jamal 'Tony' Kiyemba (Guantánamo Bay)
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Jamal Kiyemba is originally from Uganda. His parents separated and his mother moved to London where she raised his siblings. When his father died in an accident in Uganda, Jamal joined his mother, completed school and went to the University of Leicester, where he studied to become a pharmacist.
His family in Uganda was divided between strong Catholicism and a moderate strain of Islam. Jamal himself was brought up Catholic, but converted to Islam while at University.
Jamal was travelling in Pakistan when he was seized and turned over to the US authorities for a bounty of $5,000 (which was the amount the US military were offering for foreign Muslim ‘terrorists’). Jamal had never been to Afghanistan until the American military took him there and there’s no evidence that he ever committed a hostile act against the US or anyone else.
Jamal spent more than three years in Guantánamo Bay before the US authorities finally transferred him to Uganda in February 2006. Though his life was based in the UK, the British Government declined to intervene on Jamal’s behalf on the grounds that he is not a British national. Jamal’s right to enter the UK was revoked, and he has had to rebuild his life in Uganda, far away from his family and friends.
Jamal was represented by Reprieve's Legal Director, Clive Stafford Smith, and in Britain by Louise Christian.
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