11 Facts About Sufyian Barhoumi

Sufyian ibn Muhammad Barhoumi is an Algerian man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Sufyian Barhoumi arrived at Guantanamo on June 18,2002, and was held at Guantanamo for nearly 20 years.

Sufyian Barhoumi's case was appealed before a panel of judges, who confirmed Collyer's decision on June 10,2010.

Sufyian Barhoumi promised to close the camp within a year of his inauguration.

Sufyian Barhoumi promised the use of torture would cease at the camp.

Sufiyan Sufyian Barhoumi was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release.

On July 6,2004, United States President Bush ordered that Sufyian Barhoumi be charged before a military commission.

Sufyian Barhoumi, Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, and Binyam Ahmed Muhammad all faced conspiracy charges.

Jess Bravin, writing in the Wall Street Journal, reported that, by 2013, Sufyian Barhoumi had decided he would plead guilty, to any charge, because he saw a plea bargain as a way to win himself a fixed release date to look forward to.

Bravin said that Sufyian Barhoumi had come close to agreeing to a plea bargain in 2009, that would have imposed a sentence of 20 years, except he wanted credit for the eight years he had already served.

The Washington Post reported that Sufyian Barhoumi was one of the five individuals who had been cleared for release, who remained in Guantanamo when Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017.