Mamdouh Habib

Mamdouh Habib is an Egyptian-born Australian Muslim best known for his extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, on suspicion of his having been involved in terrorism. He was born in 1955 in Egypt, moved to Australia in 1982, met and married Maha, a young Lebanese–Australian woman, had four children, became an Australian citizen, and owned a café and ran a cleaning business. After being released from Guantanamo without charge, he ran as an independent political candidate in the New South Wales state election of 2007.

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