15 March 2019
By Sheren Khalel
The man wheeled (click here) into the courtroom looks like he could be much older than 58.
His long beard, almost entirely white, extends to the middle of his chest. Hunched over in a wheelchair with a pillow across his lap, he moves slowly. With the help of a walker, he carefully lifts himself up and, surrounded by uniformed soldiers, settles into an orthopaedic chair at the far left of the defence table.
While he is not shackled during the court proceedings, a metal chain runs out of the floor beneath him.
Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, the nom de guerre of Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi, was captured in Turkey by US forces in 2006, held by the CIA for more than five months, and then brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2007.
Although he has been imprisoned for 13 years, Hadi has yet to be convicted of a crime....
