Guantanamofånge vill byta land – hungerstrejkar

Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab also known as Abu Wa'el Dhiab was born in Lebanon. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba until he was released to Uruguay. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 722. Dhiab was one of the longest Guantanamo hunger strikers. There were fears he would die in custody when his weight dropped to dangerously low levels. He was granted asylum by Uruguay and on December 7, 2014, he was released to Uruguay. On June 18, 2016, it was reported that his location was unknown and there was speculation that he had found a way to travel to Brazil, despite not having travel documents. On June 27, 2016 he went to the Uruguayan Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. He asked the Uruguayan government to help him go to Turkey to be with his family and stated he did not want to return to Uruguay. On July 1, 2016, a representative for the Colombia-based Avianca Airlines in Sao Paulo, Brazil confirmed that an alert had been issued to internal employees asking employees to be on the lookout and report any sightings of Dhiab. On September 9, 2016 it was reported that Dhiab was on a hunger strike, at his apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay and that his health was deteriorating. A Uruguayan official stated they were trying to find "another country to take Dhiab". On September 14, 2016 a doctor in Uruguay stated that Abu Wa'el Dhiab "was unconscious" and had slipped into a coma due to a prolonged hunger strike and that it was hard to tell if "it was reversible".He was given medical treatment, came out of the coma, then continued his hunger strike.