On March 3, 2006, the Department of Defense released 5,000 pages of documents about the detainees, in partial compliance with a court order from US District Court JudgeJed Rakoff. Those documents revealed that Alhabiri suffered life-changing brain damage while in Guantanamo. Camp authorities attribute the brain damage to a suicide attempt on January 16, 2003: Fellow captives, on the other hand, attribute the brain damage to a brutal beating by the camp's controversial Immediate Reaction Force. They say the IRF was entering all the cells on Alhabiri's cell block when detainees were loudly objecting to an account of Qur'an abuse. His Personal Representative filed the following statement on his behalf.
Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal classified them as "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabiri's Administrative Review Board, on December 9, 2004. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention. The following primary factors favor continued detention The following primary factors favor release or transfer
Board recommendations
In September 2007, the Department of Defense released an index to 133 captives' Boards memos containing the recommendations as to whether the detainees should remain in custody. The DoD also released the memos for those 133 men. Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabri was not on that list. His Board's recommendation memo was not released.
Repatriation
cites a Human Rights Watch report that said Alhabri, and two other Saudis, were repatriated to Saudi custody on July 20, 2005. As of May 26, 2006, the three remain held, without charge, in Riyadh's al-Ha'ir prison. As of July 26, 2007, Mishal al Harbi, who had received treatment at a hospital in Medina, had married a Saudi women and hoped to find a job that could make him self-reliant. Before he was allowed to marry, the Saudi Interior Ministry required that he complete a number of rehabilitation programs, required for all Guantanamo returnees.
On March 1, 2007, the Washington Post published an article about Alhabri, and his family. The article quotes Alhabri, his older brother, and released fellow captives who had been held in cells neighboring Alhabri's, who offered an alternative account of his injury — that he was injured while the camp's Immediate Reaction Force were entering the cells of captives who were yelling in outrage after witnessing the Qur'an being abused. According to the article Alhabri has seizures, slurred speech, tremors and twitches, and memory lapses. He uses a wheelchair. The article's final paragraph quotes his older brother, and caregiver:
All the men who were released from Guantanamo, they are now leading a normal life, But Mishal can't walk, get himself a glass of water or go tothe bathroom by himself. I just want him to go back the way he was before Guantanamo.
