Abd al-Salam al-Hilah is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense lists his place of birth as Sanaa, Yemen and his date of birth as January 30, 1968. As of today, Abd al-Salam al-Hilah has been confined at the Guantanamo camps for . He arrived there on September 20, 2004. CIA detention Al-Hilah was captured, in Cairo, on September 19, 2002, while on a business trip. John Sifton, of Human Rights Watch, says that Al-Hilah disappeared, for eighteen months, before surfacing in American detention in the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to medical records published on March 16, 2007, his "in process date" at Guantanamo was September 20, 2004. Since his arrival in Guantanamo Bay, he is one of the approximately 200 detainees who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. In recently declassified discussions with his lawyer, al-Hilah says that after his capture he was sent to Baku Azerbaijan for two months, and then spent 16 months in secret bases in Afghanistan, including "the dark prison". Official status reviews Originally the Bush Presidency 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. 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 Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. 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: Abd al-Salam al-Hilah was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are members of Al Qaeda." Abd al-Salam al-Hilah was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative". Habeas corpus petition Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman Al Hela v. George W. Bush had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. Joint Review Task Force On January 21, 2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President