Al-Hela is a Yemeni tribal sheikh who was apprehended in Egypt in 2002 by American forces and who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for close to 17 years and still hasn’t seen all the factual evidence against him. His case raises the fundamental – and as of yet unanswered – question of whether Guantanamo detainees have due process rights under the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.

Opinion by DEBRA PERLIN