Abdul Latif Nasir and Sufyian Barhoumi tried to file emergency requests to be transferred from Guantanamo in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency.

[14] The Bush presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the War on Terror were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.

[23] In 2013 she was able to learn that Abdul Latif Nasser was one of 48 captives for whom there was no evidence for being held, and who officials nevertheless regarded as too potentially dangerous to release -- "forever prisoners".

[24] The Washington Post reported that Abdul Latif Nasir was one of five individuals who had been cleared for release, but remained in Guantanamo when President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

Nasser's family members in Casablanca pledged to support him by finding him work in his brother's swimming pool cleaning business, according to his lawyer Thomas Anthony Durkin.