Crime - Life after Guantanamo

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Never charged with the crime, Mohammed Odani spent almost nine years in prison. He is the last detainee from Guantanamo Bay Prison to have returned home to live in Yemen. In this episode, Fault Lines travelled to Yemen to ask what the consequences of Americas policy of indefinite detention have been and to find out what life is like there, after Guantanamo. Mohammed was studying in Pakistan when the aftershocks of September 11th began reverberating around the world. One night in the spring of 2002, he was visiting a student house when Pakistani authorities raided it. He was arrested, along with more than a dozen others. Two months later, the Pakistanis turned Mohammed over to American forces. Farouque Ali Akmed had also travelled abroad to teach Koran. Farouque spent eight years at Guantanamo. Like Mohammed, he denies having been involved in attacks on US targets or terrorism of any kind. Though they labeled him in enemy combatant and said he was associated with Al-Qaeda, the United States never charged him with anything either. As bad as the physical torture was, they say it was nothing compared to torment of being wrongly imprisoned.