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Documents and research related to the roughly 780 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.

Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher

Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher

Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher was a citizen of Yemen. He was transferred to Yemen on Dec. 19, 2009. He died on March 2, 2017.

Note: These documents include some assertions that cannot be independently verified. Many allegations have been contested by detainees and their lawyers, and some have been undercut by other evidence.

Internment Serial Number: 679
Alternate name:
  • Yasir Ali Abdallah al Silmi
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Andrei Scheinkman, Alan McLean, Jeremy Ashkenas, Archie Tse and Jacob Harris / The New York Times
Updates: Jeremy Bowers / The New York Times, Margot Williams / The Intercept