A film adaption of the memoir titled The Mauritanian directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Shailene Woodley was released on February 12, 2021. Release from Guantánamo Bay Salahi had his first Periodic Review Board review on June 2, 2016. A month later, the board recommended that Slahi be released. On October 17, 2016, Slahi was freed and returned to Mauritania, after being detained without charge for over 14 years. CBS interview CBS News journalist Holly Williams traveled to Mauritania to interview Slahi. CBS News flagship news show, 60 Minutes, broadcast the story on March 12, 2017. CBS News described it as Slahi's first television interview since his repatriation. In this interview Mohamedou said he "wholeheartedly [forgives] everyone who wronged [him] during [his] detention." Slahi filed in April 2022 a legal claim against the Canadian government on the grounds that "faulty intelligence provided by Canadian authorities contributed to his detention" in 2002, seeking $35 million in compensation. Reunion with Guantanamo guard In May 2018, Slahi's former guard at Guantanamo, Steve Wood, visited him in Mauritania during Ramadan. It was covered in the 2020 documentary short film My Brother's Keeper. Travel restriction Slahi's passport has not been returned to him as was promised during his release. He is not able to leave Mauritania to treat his health condition or see his newborn son in Germany. After his academic graduation in Germany in 1999 Salahi had registered himself as unemployed while also being involved in commercial activities which he failed to declare to the authorities, resulting in a suspended sentence for social fraud and an unlimited entry ban. Open letter to President Biden On January 29, 2021 the New York Review of Books published an open letter from Slahi, and six other individuals who were formerly held in Guantanamo, to newly inaugurated President Biden, appealing to him to close the detention camp. References External links Includes interviews with Morris Davis, Nancy Hollander (Salahi's lead lawyer), and Larry Siems. Includes transcript, audio, and video. Covers 2000 to 2010. FBI concerns about military interrogations at GTMO, pages 122-128 (PDF pages 166-172). Allegations of mistreatment by FBI personnel, pages 295-299 (PDF pages 339-343) HTML version Further reading 1970 births Living people Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Interrogations People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees Mauritanian torture victims Prisoners and detainees