Who is Mohamedou Ould Slahi? Sued Canada for $35 Million, Aged 51, Wife, Family, Biography

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a suspect who was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay, believing he was a member of Al-Qaida following 9/11.

Even though he was absolutely innocent, he was jailed without prosecution from 2022 until his release in 2016, wasting 14 years of his precious life.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Ex-Prisoner Sues Canada for $35 million

After discoveries revealed the extent to which the Canadian government was implicated in his torture, Slahi filed a claim in federal court demanding accountability.

After mistakenly believing Mr. Slahi was implicated in a terror plan in the early 2000s, CSIS Canada and the RCMP began to aggressively surveil and harass him.

Canadian intelligence was shared with other governments, particularly the United States.

Slahi was kidnapped and delivered to Jordan in the aftermath of 9/11, where he was tortured for months before being taken to Guantanamo Bay. From August 2002 to October 2016, Slahi was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay without charge.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Age, Family, and Early Life

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, on December 21, 1970. As of April 2022, he is 51 years old. He was the eighth child of a Mauritanian camel herder and his wife. However, we learned that her mother had died, and we presume that her father did as well because no information about them has been heard or discovered, so we don’t know anything about them.

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However, one of his associates, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, was a spiritual counselor to Osama bin Laden. At the time of his detention in 2002, officials suspected Slahi of having ties to terrorism.

Which school and college did he go to?

He earned a scholarship to study engineering in Germany.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Net Worth, How much does he earn?

It is not known how much money he is worth. He has never spoken to a media outlet about his net worth when he was alive as a result nothing about his net worth was revealed anything on the web.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi Wife, What about his relationship?

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is married to Matthias Lehnert, who is an American lawyer and they together have a son.

Is he available on any social media platforms?

 He is available on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook with 37.3K+, 15.8K+, and 4.8K+ followers respectively

Physical Appearance of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Height, Weight

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Hair ColourBrown
Eye ColourHazel
Body typeFit
Sexual OrientationStraight

Interesting facts about Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s you should be known

NationalityMauritanian
EthnicityWhite
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Net WorthN / A
Single/ In a relationshipMarried
Current SpouseMatthias Lehnert,
Children1

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