Please join CCR in Washington DC on Thursday, October 15th at 10:00 am for a motion hearing in Ba Odah v. Obama, a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been detained at Guantánamo without charge since 2002.

The hearing will take place in Courtroom 25A before Judge Hogan in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. To enter the courthouse, all visitors must show a photo ID issued by a government agency, such as a driver's license, or a bar identification card.

In June 2015, CCR filed a motion seeking a court order granting Ba Odah’s habeas petition and compelling the government to facilitate his immediate release. Ba Odah has been on hunger strike since February 2007 to protest his continued indefinite detention and solitary conditions of confinement at Guantanamo. He weighs only 74 lbs. – 56 percent of his ideal body weight – a weight that experts say puts him “on the precipice of death.” Despite the fact that Mr. Ba Odah has been cleared for release since 2009—and is gravely ill—the U.S. government has opposed this motion.