Shaker Aamer

Shaker Aamer

Age: 42
Nationality: Saudi (Legal British resident)
Arrested: Afghanistan, 2001
Currently held: Guantánamo Bay
Status: Cleared for release

Case history


  1. Foreign Secretary defends Government stance on Battersea Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer

    by Paul Cahalan, Wandsworth Guardian, 29/04/10

    April 29, 2010

  2. US is asked to free last British prisoner at Guantanamo Bay

    by Kiran Randhawa, The Evening Standard, 03/03/10

    March 4, 2010

  3. Police investigate claim that MI5 was complicit in Shaker Aamer's torture

    by Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian, 19/02/10

    Feb. 19, 2010

  4. Heartbreaking' moment Shaker Aamer saw first photo of son

    by Paul Cahalan, Your Local Guardian, 11/02/10

    Feb. 15, 2010

  5. Government to release secret files that 'prove MI5 colluded in torture of terror suspect'

    by Dan Newling, The Daily Mail, 13/01/10

    Jan. 14, 2010

  6. Free my dad from Guantanamo, 12-year-old asks Brown

    by Robert Verkaik, The Independent, 11/01/10

    Jan. 11, 2010

  7. Miliband snubbed by US over prisoner's release

    by Rober Vekaik, The Independent, 12/11/09

    Dec. 12, 2009

  8. Britain mixed up in more 'wrongdoing' - this time against Shaker Aamer, the last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay

    Another day, another crime. That’s how it seems to be going for the British government at the moment.

    Dec. 9, 2009

  9. High Court hears the case of Shaker Aamer, the last recognized British resident in Guantánamo Bay, as Government demands secrecy

    The British Government calls for closed hearings about Londoner Shaker Aamer - once again at the request of the Americans - in the High Court today.

    Dec. 8, 2009

  10. 'MI5 agent left me alone with gun', says Guantánamo terror detainee

    by Jamie Doward, The Observer, 06/09/09

    Sept. 7, 2009

  11. Abuse of Shaker Aamer continues...

    On Wednesday July 22nd 2009 Shaker Aamer was supposed to see his lawyer. Instead, that day Mr. Aamer was beaten by six soldiers clad in riot gear, stripped down with a pair of heavy duty shears, and left to wallow under a cold air conditioning vent.

    Sept. 4, 2009

  12. Lawyer denied access to Shaker Amer in Guantanamo

    by Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 04/09/09

    Sept. 4, 2009

  13. Shaker Amer - The Londoner left to rot in Guantánamo Bay

    by Jameela Oberman, The Palestine Telegraph, 05/07/09

    July 5, 2009

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