{"id":34578,"date":"2013-10-07T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=34578"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:58:59","slug":"judge-orders-release-of-schizophrenic-guantanamo-detainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/10\/judge-orders-release-of-schizophrenic-guantanamo-detainee\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Orders Release of Schizophrenic Guantanamo Detainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34579\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/guantanamo.si_.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34579\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34579\" alt=\"AFP Photo \/ Chantal Valery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/guantanamo.si_-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/guantanamo.si_-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/guantanamo.si_.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP Photo \/ Chantal Valery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A federal judge has ordered the US to release a Guantanamo Bay prisoner suffering from mental illness who has spent much of his 11 years at the prison in a psychiatric ward.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a release order Friday [4 Oct 2013] for Ibrahim Idris of Sudan, who was never formally charged for a crime despite being held at the US naval base as an enemy combatant.<\/p>\n<p>Lamberth issued the order after US Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers earlier this week stating that the government would not oppose his release as it had previously.<\/p>\n<p>Idris\u2019 legal counsel has long argued that his illness was too great for him to pose a security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Idris was captured with Al-Qaeda fighters by Pakistani forces in 2001 while attempting to cross into Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He was diagnosed with schizophrenia by a US Army psychiatrist not long after his arrival at Guantanamo in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/guantanamo-detainee-released-illness-755\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge issued a release order Friday [4 Oct 2013] for Ibrahim Idris of Sudan, who has spent much of his 11 years at the prison in a psychiatric ward and was never formally charged despite being held at the US naval base as an enemy combatant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}