[3] Smith comments focused on what he characterized as the camp authority's leaders plans to prevent future suicides by increasing their brutality.

His Personal Representative notes from the meeting where the Summary of Evidence memo was read to Rashidi stated: Detainee was extremely verbally belligerent towards both myself and translator.

[5] Documents from Rashidi's CSR Tribunal indicated he had been confirmed as an "enemy combatant", and was going to start having annual Administrative Review Board hearings.

But Chris Chang, an investigator for Reprieve, uncovered pay stubs showing that Errachidi had been a chef in two London restaurants, the Westbury and the Archduke, in July 2001.

Chang's office provided copies of the pay stubs to the Globe.On August 7, 2008 The Washington Post'' reported that the Guantanamo guards defied their orders to discontinue the illegal practice of arbitrarily moving captives multiples times a day to deprive them of sleep.

Lieutenant-Colonel David Cooper, of the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, wrote Rashidi's lawyers on February 22, 2007.

[9] A close friend back in the United Kingdom, Abderrazzak Sakim, and Clive Stafford Smith, told the Islington Gazette, his local paper, that they were concerned that if he were repatriated to Morocco, he would be promptly subjected to abusive detention in a Moroccan prison.

Ahmed must be released immediately and I have written to George Bush to tell him so.The Department of Defense reported, on April 26, 2007, that two further captives had been repatriated, one to Morocco, one to Afghanistan.

[20] Reuters reports that Rashidi had traveled to Pakistan, where he was captured in late 2001, to try to raise funds for a heart operation for his young son.

[22] According to Shephard, Rashidi said their fellow captives felt particularly sorry for Khadr, because he was so young, and because they could tell when it was his turn to be subjected to brutal interrogation techniques.

It was well known if some detainee is going through torture courses and I remember there was a time when everyone was talking about Omar having his turn.In early 2013 Errachidi published a memoir, "The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo".

[24] Paddy McGuffin, writing in The Morning Star Online, called the book a "damning indictment of the policy of extra-judicial detention as well as a fascinating account of an innocent man's fight to prevent himself being buried alive under the full weight of US officialdom."

[25] On January 29, 2021, the New York Review of Books published an open letter from Rachidi, and six other individuals who were formerly held in Guantanamo, to newly inaugurated President Biden, appealing to him to close the detention camp.