Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari (Arabic: جمعه محمد عبد اللطيف الدوسري) is a Bahraini citizen who was held for five years at Camp Delta, at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Chicago Public Radio's program, This American Life, featured Al-Dossari in a Peabody Award-winning broadcast about Guantanamo in 2006.
[1] According to Human Rights Watch: Rasul also recounted the beating of Bahraini prisoner Jummah Al-Dousari, who was mentally ill and used to shout all the time, say silly things, impersonate the soldiers.
According to Colangelo-Byran: According to a report in the Washington Post on November 1, 2005, Al Dossary attempted to commit suicide on October 15, whilst taking a washroom break during a visit by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.
[4] Colangelo-Bryan described finding Al Dossary hanging unconscious from a noose in the washroom, with blood pouring from a large wound in his right arm.
Following his most recent suicide attempt Al Dossary's lawyers filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction on his behalf.
They described the Americans' refusal to provide news of Al Dossary's health, following his recent suicide attempt, as "gratuitous callousness".
According to Ahearn the FBI is interested in learning whether Al Dossary may have helped fund the Lackawanna men's travel expenses.
On November 9, 2005, the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain issued a statement to respond to the allegations that Dossary had been abused, and that his physical and mental health was at risk.
The Gulf Daily News quoted Sullivan as saying he had no knowledge of any judicial action by US authorities following allegations of abuse.
Sullivan connected the incident described in Eric Saar's book, Inside the Wire, where interrogator Sergeant Jeanette Arocho-Burkart smeared a red liquid she claimed was her menses on to a detainee's face with Al Dossary.
On June 12, 2006 Al Dossary wrote a letter to his lawyer Colangelo-Bryan, requesting an independent medical examination.
Al Dossary said that the camp authorities were not allowing him to receive mail from his family, and were withholding his personal belongings from him, and keeping him in solitary confinement.
Al Dossary also reported that the camp authorities had promised him a rare phone call to his family, following his father's death.
[12] The Gulf Daily News reports:[12] It is understood the former detainees will remain in captivity while the Saudi authorities investigate whether they have any links to any militant organisations.On August 23, 2007, the Gulf Daily News reported that Juma al Dossari had been released, and was going to receive official assistance from the Saudi government.
[13] The article quoted Bahraini Member of Parliament Mohammed Khalid, who said: Look at what the government of Saudi Arabia has given Juma – a car, monthly allowance, help to find a job and get married.An article in the December 21, 2007, issue of the Los Angeles Times profiled Al Dosari's rehabilitation.
[14] The article quoted al Dosari: We can't go immediately from getting off a plane from Cuba to living in society.
Now, I'm trying to get things back on track.The BBC World Service broadcast a half-hour interview with Al Dossari on June 28, 2008.
This knowledge helped me forget my miserable existence in Guantanamo and open my heart to life again, including to my recent re-marriage.On November 2, 2008, that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown toured the rehabilitation center for former Guantanamo captives, and, while there spoke with al Dossari, Ghanim al Harbi, and other former captives.