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Mansoor Adayfi
Adayfi grew up in Yemen in a poor family and spent his childhood chasing goats and sheep in the mountains.
He says he was sent to Afghanistan to do research for a sheikh at a Yemeni Islamic institute and that he was captured by a warlord and handed over to the Americans.
At the age of 18 he was sent to Guantánamo Bay detention camp and spent 14 years there, after which he was released to Serbia, the only place that would take him.
Read the whole story here.
Client: The Intercept
Author: Cora Currier
Photo editor: Elise Swain
Year: 2021-
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