Mohammed Nechle is a Bosnian citizen who was wrongly held for almost seven years as an "enemy combatant" in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Nechle was born in Algeria and immigrated to Bosnia in the 1990s.
Nechle became a Bosnian citizen, and married a Bosnian woman.
Nechle was working for the Red Crescent at the time of al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001.
He won his habeas corpus and US District Court Judge Richard J.
Leon wrote that there was no evidence that Nechle intended to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against US forces.
Judge Leon declared Nechle's detention as unlawful and ordered his release in November 2008.
He was released from Guantanamo and returned to his family in Bosnia on December 16, 2008.