{{Short description|Prisoner at centro de detencion de la bahia de Guantanamo}} {{for | the detainee held in Bagram by the CIA | Lufti Al-Arabi Al-Gharisi }} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox War on Terror detainee | name = Lotfi Bin Ali | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1965 | birth_place = Tunis, Tunisia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|03|09|1965|df=yes}} | death_place = | detained_at = Guantanamo | id_number = 894 | group = | alias = Abdullah Bin Ali al-Lutfi | charge = no charge, extrajudicial detention | penalty = | status = Transferred to Kazakhstan, where subject died of natural causes }}
'''Lotfi Bin Ali''' ({{Langx|ar|لطفي بن علي}}; 1965 – 9 March 2021), also known as '''Abdullah Bin Ali al-Lutfi''', was a Tunisian whom the United States held in extrajudicial detention for over thirteen years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.<ref name=DoDList2> {{cite web|url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through 15 May 2006| publisher=United States Department of Defense| author=OARDEC | accessdate=2006-05-15}}</ref><ref name=NYTimesGuantanamoDocketIsn894/> He was one of five men transferred to Kazakhstan in 2014. He was extensively quoted following the death, purportedly from lack of medical care, of one of the other captives transferred to Kazakhstan. In a September 2016 profile in ''The Guardian,'' he described exile in Kazakhstan as being very isolating, and, in some ways, almost as bad as Guantanamo.<ref name=TheGuardian2016-09-30/>
==Health== A 2004 medical summary stated he had chronic heart disease that had required the placement of a mechanical heart valve; that he had kidney stones; latent tuberculosis, depression and high blood pressure. It stated he needed to have his blood tested, twice a month, to ensure he was receiving the right dose of anti-coagulants.<ref name=TheTelegraphDabIsn894/><ref name=Guardian2015-05-22/><ref name=AndyWorthington2012-10-25/>
''Vice magazine'', who visited him in October 2015, ten and a half months after his transfer to Semey, Kazakhstan, said his local doctors didn't speak Arabic, and no translators were available.<ref name=Vice2015-10-15/> According to his Guantanamo weight records he was {{convert|76.5|inch|cm}} tall, and weighed {{convert|225|lb|kg}} upon his arrival.<ref name=GuantanamoWeightRecords839-1011/> His weight showed a sudden drop in late fall of 2005 and he weighed {{convert|218|lb|kg}} on November 27, 2005. On 10 December 2005, his weight had dropped to {{convert|192.5|lb|kg}}. On both 12 & 13 December, his weight was recorded as exactly {{convert|173.4|lb|kg}}. On 16 December, his weight was recorded as exactly {{convert|163.9|lb|kg}}. By 29 December, his records showed he had gained {{convert|29|lb|kg}}. By 27 January 2006, his weight had risen to {{convert|201.4|lb|kg}}, and his weight oscillated around that weight for the rest of 2006. Lotfi Bin Ali died on 9 March 2021<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hilal |first=Maha |date=April 3, 2021 |title=The death of a former Guantanamo prisoner exposes how the US controls the life and death of its captives |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/former-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-us-terrorism-release-lufti-bin-ali-2021-3 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> from heart disease complications and inability to afford required surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riUg6LQCeEY|title = Meet Mansoor Adayfi: I Was Kidnapped as a Teen, Sold to the CIA & Jailed at Guantánamo for 14 Years|website = YouTube}}</ref>
==Official status reviews== Originally, the George W. Bush administration asserted that captives apprehended in the ''"war on terror"'' were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.<ref name=UsaToday20071011> {{cite news |url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm |title = U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use |publisher = USA Today |date = 2007-10-11 |archivedate = 2007-10-23 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071023220558/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm |url-status = live |quote = Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.}}</ref> In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.
===Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants=== [[File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpg|thumb|Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.<ref name=Nytimes041109>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/national/08gitmo.html?ex=1257570000&en=4af06725bdf5c086&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt|title=Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court|work=New York Times|date=November 11, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184542/http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=3838 |archive-date=2007-09-30|last=Lewis|first=Neil}}</ref><ref name=FinancialTimes041211>[http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/ft-12-11-04a.htm Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals"], ''Financial Times'', 11 December 2004.</ref>]]
Following the Supreme Court's ruling, the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.<ref name=UsaToday20071011/><ref name=Bbc2002-01-21>{{cite news |url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm |title = Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? |publisher = BBC News |date = 2002-01-21 |access-date = 2008-11-24 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm |archive-date = 23 November 2008 |url-status = live}} </ref>
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16> {{cite news |url = http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf |title = The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study |publisher = The Brookings Institution |date = 2008-12-16 |author = Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne |accessdate = 2010-02-16 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130601150504/http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/12/16%20detainees%20wittes/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf |url-status = dead |archivedate = 2013-06-01}}</ref>
* Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of the captives whom the Wittes team were unable to identify as presently cleared for release or transfer.<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/> * Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/> * Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/> * Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/> * Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the "al Qaeda leadership cadre".<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/> * Lotfi Bin Ali was listed as one of "two alleged Al Qaeda leaders who have been cleared for release or transfer."<ref name=Brookings2008-12-16/>
===Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment=== On 25 April 2011, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.<ref name=TelegraphWikiLeaksRevealed2011-04-25> {{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html |title=WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose |publisher=The Telegraph (UK) |date=2011-04-27 |accessdate=2012-07-13 |author1=Christopher Hope |author2=Robert Winnett |author3=Holly Watt |author4=Heidi Blake |archivedate=2012-07-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715015806/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html |url-status=live |quote=The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website. }}</ref><ref name=TheTelegraphDabDatabase>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html | title = WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database | publisher = The Telegraph (UK) | date = 2011-04-27 | accessdate = 2012-07-10 | archivedate = 2015-06-26 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150626204100/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html | url-status = dead}}</ref> His two-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on June 27, 2004.<ref name=TheTelegraphDabIsn894/> It was signed by camp commandant Jay W. Hood. He recommended release due to Lotfi's serious health problems, but noted the Criminal Investigative Task Force regarded him as a high risk.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
===Cleared for release by the Guantanamo Joint Task Force=== President Barack Obama enacted three Executive Orders pertaining to Guantanamo on the day he took office.<ref name=AndyWorthington2012-10-25/> Executive Order 13492 established a new review process for the remaining captive, one where those reviewing their status were senior officials representing several cabinet departments, including the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Lotfi was cleared, yet again, by his review.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
== Transfer to Kazakhstan == On 30 December 2014, Lotfi Bin Ali and four other men were transferred to Kazakhstan, where they were kept under onerous security conditions.<ref name=Wapo2014-12-31/><ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/><ref name=AndyWorthington2015-01-04/> ''Fox News'' said that Lotfi and the four other men were the first to be transferred to Kazakhstan.<ref name=Fox2014-12-31/> Carol Rosenberg, of the ''Miami Herald'', noted that Lotfi Bin Ali arrived in Guantanamo with serious heart disease, and his transfer had first been recommended in 2004, because his heart disease made him a low risk.<ref name=MiamiHerald2014-12-30/> Three Yemenis (Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna and Sabri Mohammad al Qurashi) and a fellow Tunisian (Adel Al-Hakeemy), were also transferred. ''Reuters'' said that the 2009 reviews by the Joint Review Task Force had reclassified all five men as ''"low risk"''.<ref name=Reuters2014-12-31/>
National Public Radio reported that all the agencies with representatives on the Joint Review Task Force had unanimously agreed to release the five men.<ref name=Npr2014-12-31/> Lotfi Bin Ali and fellow Tunisian Al Hakeemy were relocated to Semey, while the Yemenis were relocated to Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan.<ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/>
''Vice News'' described the men transferred to Kazakhstan as only nominally being free.<ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/> ''Vice News'' interviewed Lotfi Bin Ali shortly after 7 May 2015, death of his friend Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, who was transferred to Kazakhstan at the same time he was. Lotfi Bin Ali had been in regular contact with him via Skype, and had last spoken to him just three days before his death. He told ''Vice News'' that Kazakhstan security officials regularly inspected the former captives' living quarters, initially doing so almost every day:<blockquote>The police used to come almost every day to the apartment. They would open the door and enter and check the place for a minute or two, then they would leave... It's as if it's Guantanamo 2, to be honest.<ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/></blockquote>
Lotfi Bin Ali contradicted Guantanamo spokesmen, who claimed al Khalaqi would not have been transferred if his health was compromised—saying that al-Khalaqi regularly fell into comas at Guantanamo, needing prompt medical care.<ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/> Al-Lofti said al Khalaqi had been hospitalized multiple times, in Kazakhstan, prior to his death. ''Vice News'' reported that "In cooperation with the Kazakh government, the local chapter of the ICRC is charged with the care of the former detainees, and provides healthcare, food stipends, language classes, and transport." Kazakhstan security officials routinely enter the men's homes without a warrant.<ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21/>
''Vice magazine'' profiled Lotfi Bin Ali in October 2015.<ref name=Vice2015-10-15/><ref name=thediplomat2015-10-16/> It reported Kazakh authorities still hadn't issued him with identity documents, meaning he had to rely the Red Crescent Society to manage his affairs.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
''Vice'' was able to accompany Lotfi Bin Ali to a meeting with Alfiya Meshina, head of the Semey office of the Red Crescent Society. She interrupted Lofti when he was talking about his health, reportedly saying:<blockquote>I don't want to listen to this bullshit about his health problems. Since he arrived here on the 31st of December last year and until today, all we have been doing is taking care of his health... We have so many poor and elderly people, so many large families that live much worse than he does. What is he, a national hero of Kazakhstan? Why should he enjoy special treatment and privileges?<ref name=Vice2015-10-15/></blockquote>
UNESCO reported in 2019 that Lotfi Bin Ali said he would prefer to live in actual detention in Guantanamo rather than in Kazakhstan.<ref name=Unesco2019-05/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Unesco2019-05> {{cite news | url = https://issuu.com/usclevaninstitute/docs/2017-18_usc-unesco_journal_for_glob | title = Out of Sight Out of Mind: The Detrimental Effects of Guantanamo Bay's Philosophy | work = USC-UNESCO Journal for Global Humanities, Science & Ethical Inquiry | author = Lucine Beylerian | date = May 2019 | pages = 105, 106, 107, 108, 109 | accessdate = 2019-09-28}}</ref><ref name=Vice2015-10-15> {{cite news | url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/after-being-imprisoned-at-guantanamo-two-men-find-themselves-trapped-in-kazakhstan/ | title = After Being Imprisoned at Guantanamo, Two Men Find Themselves Trapped in Kazakhstan | work = Vice magazine | author = Simon Ostrovsky | date = 2015-10-15 | access-date = 2019-09-28 | quote = Bin Ali entered US custody with a pre-existing heart condition for which he'd been fitted with an artificial heart valve in the late 1990s. His poor health is part of the reason he was deemed by the Defense Department to be "low risk," and recommended for release or transfer to another country in 2004. He then languished in Guantanamo for 10 more years while the Defense Department debated what to do with him.}}</ref><ref name=Npr2014-12-31> {{cite news | url = http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/31/374153668/u-s-transfers-five-guantanamo-detainees-to-kazakhstan | title = U.S. Transfers 5 Guantanamo Detainees To Kazakhstan | publisher = National Public Radio | author = Eyder Peralta | date = 2014-12-31 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150522095142/http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/31/374153668/u-s-transfers-five-guantanamo-detainees-to-kazakhstan | archivedate = 2015-05-22 | accessdate = 2015-05-21 | url-status = live | quote = In a statement, the Pentagon said the interagency task force charged with reviewing detainee releases had approved the transfer of these five men "unanimously."}}</ref><ref name=Reuters2014-12-31> {{cite news | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guantanamo-kazakhstan-idUSKBN0K905W20141231 | title = U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement | publisher = Reuters | author = Matt Spetalnick | date = 2014-12-31 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150325001013/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/31/us-usa-guantanamo-kazakhstan-idUSKBN0K905W20141231 | archivedate = 2015-03-25 | accessdate = 2015-05-21 | url-status = live | quote = One of the Yemenis, Khalaqi, 46, had been implicated by John Walker Lindh, an American captured in late 2001 working with the Taliban, as having fought with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, according to the documents. But Khalaqi denied any involvement.}}</ref><ref name=MiamiHerald2014-12-30> {{cite news | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article5216124.html | title = U.S. sends 5 detainees to Kazakhstan — a day late after aborted journey | publisher = Miami Herald | author = Carol Rosenberg | date = 2014-12-30 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150414001601/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article5216124.html | archivedate = 2015-04-14 | accessdate = 2015-05-22 | url-status = live | quote = One of them, Tunisian Abdullah Bin Ali al Lufti, 48, got to Guantánamo in February 2003 with heart problems and other health issues. By June 2004, according to leaked U.S. military documents, the prison deemed him “low risk, due to his medical condition” and recommended his release or transfer to detention in another country.}}</ref><ref name=Fox2014-12-31> {{cite news | url = https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-releases-5-more-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-sends-them-to-kazakhstan/ | title = US releases 5 more Guantanamo Bay prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan | publisher = Fox News | date = 2014-12-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150401062313/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/31/us-releases-5-more-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-sends-them-to-kazakhstan/ | archive-date = 2015-04-01 | access-date = 2015-05-21 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=AndyWorthington2012-10-25>{{cite news | url = http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/10/25/who-are-the-55-cleared-guantanamo-prisoners-on-the-list-released-by-the-obama-administration/ | title = Who Are the 55 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners on the List Released by the Obama Administration? | publisher = | author = Andy Worthington | date = 2012-10-25 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06 | quote = Noticeably, one of these men, Mohammed Abdul Rahman (also known as Lotfi bin Ali), who was first cleared in 2004, is also ill, as I explained in the report on the 40 cleared prisoners in June...}}</ref><ref name=GuantanamoWeightRecords839-1011> {{cite news | url = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/The_DoD_published_captives%27_weights_in_2007_--_ISN_839-ISN_1011.pdf#page=20 | title = The DoD published captives' weights in 2007 -- ISN 839-ISN 1011 | publisher = JTF-GTMO | date = | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06}}</ref><ref name=TheTelegraphDabIsn894> {{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477433/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Abdullah-Bin-Ali-Al-Lutfi-US9TS-000894DP.html | title = Abdullah Bin Ali Al Lutfi: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Abdullah Bin Ali Al Lutfi, US9TS-000894DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks | publisher = The Telegraph (UK) | date = 2011-04-27 | page = | accessdate = 2016-07-09 }}</ref><ref name=TheGuardian2016-09-30> {{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/worse-than-guantanamo-ex-prisoner-struggles-with-new-life-in-kazakhstan | title = 'Here I have nobody': life in a strange country may be worse than Guantánamo | work = The Guardian | author = Shaun Walker | date = 2016-09-30 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06 | quote = Lonely and isolated in the Kazakh steppe, the 51-year-old Tunisian has found life since his release from Guantánamo no easier than life inside.}}</ref><ref name=Guardian2015-05-22> {{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/22/guantanamo-detainee-asim-thabit-abdullah-al-khalaqi-dies-kazakhstan | title = Former Guantánamo detainee dies in Kazakhstan six months after release | work = The Guardian |author1=Diana Cariboni |author2=Raya Jalabi |author3=Jonathan Watts | date = 2015-05-22 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06 | quote = The most seriously ill of the group sent to Kazakhstan is Tunisian Abdullah Bin Ali al-Lutfi, who has a mechanical heart valve and suffers from chronic heart rhythm, kidney stones and high blood pressure. He is 49 years old.}}</ref><ref name=NYTimesGuantanamoDocketIsn894>{{cite news | url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/894-lotfi-bin-ali | title=Guantanamo Docket: Lotfi Bin Ali | work=New York Times | author=Margot Williams | date=2008-11-03 | accessdate = 2016-07-09}}</ref><ref name=AndyWorthington2015-01-04> {{cite news | url = http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2015/01/04/who-are-the-five-guantanamo-prisoners-given-new-homes-in-kazakhstan/ | title = Who Are the Five Guantánamo Prisoners Given New Homes in Kazakhstan? | publisher = | author = Andy Worthington | date = 2015-01-04 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06 | quote = I discussed the case of al-Lufti (aka Abdul Rahman) in my article, "Guantánamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoners Still Held But Cleared for Release At Least Five Years Ago," published in June 2012, in which I described his illnesses, and also explained that, disturbingly, he was first cleared for release nearly ten years ago...}}</ref><ref name=Wapo2014-12-31> {{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-moving-to-close-guantanamo-sends-five-prisoners-to-kazakhstan/2014/12/31/294c80e8-902d-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html | title = Pentagon, moving to close Guantanamo, sends five prisoners to Kazakhstan | newspaper = Washington Post | author = Missy Ryan, Adam Goldman | date = 2014-12-31 | page = | location = | accessdate = 2016-10-06 | quote = A U.S. defense official said the prisoners will be "resettled" in Kazakhstan, a term the Pentagon uses when detainees are set free in a new country but remain subject to some level of monitoring by the host government. Typically, the released detainees are prohibited from leaving the host country for one or two years.}}</ref><ref name=ViceNews2015-05-21> {{cite news | url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/former-guantanamo-detainee-dies-in-kazakhstan/ | title = Former Guantanamo Detainee Dies in Kazakhstan | publisher = Vice News | author = Claire Ward | date = 2015-05-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150522061044/https://news.vice.com/article/former-guantanamo-detainee-dies-in-kazakhstan | archive-date = 2015-05-22 | url-status = live | quote = Al-Khalaqi, 47, was found unconscious in his apartment in Kyzylorda on May 7 and was brought to the hospital with suspected food poisoning. The autopsy later revealed that he died of kidney failure and showed he had a severe lung infection.}}</ref><ref name=thediplomat2015-10-16> {{cite news | url = https://thediplomat.com/2015/10/former-guantanamo-detainees-exiled-to-kazakhstan/ | title = Former Guantanamo Detainees Exiled to Kazakhstan | work = The Diplomat | author = Catherine Putz | date = 2015-10-16 | accessdate = 2019-09-28 | quote = But more serious than his cultural and social isolation is the simple fact that al-Lutfi, who has a serious heart condition likely worsened by 12 years in prison, cannot communicate with his doctors–none of them speak Arabic–and must rely on the local Red Crescent to obtain medicine. The local Red Crescent head told Vice, {{'}}I don’t want to listen to this bullshit about his health problems.{{'}}}}</ref>}}
==External links== * [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/13/who-are-the-remaining-prisoners-in-guantanamo-part-seven-captured-in-pakistan-3-of-3/ Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Seven: Captured in Pakistan (3 of 3)], AndyWorthington.co.uk. 13 October 2010.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bin Ali, Lotfi}} Category:Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp Category:Tunisian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Category:People from Tunis Category:1965 births Category:2021 deaths Category:Date of birth unknown