[JURIST] A Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee has been pronounced dead by military officials who believe that he committed suicide, according to Wednesday reports. Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih, also known as al Hanashi, was accused [BBC report] of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The military maintained that measures were taken to revive al Hanashi after he was found unresponsive in his cell. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Wednesday called for [press release] a "full and transparent investigation" into the apparent suicide. Suggesting an immediate and independent investigation into the death and Guantanamo conditions, ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner said that:

Tragic deaths like this one have become all too common in a system that locks up detainees indefinitely without charge or trial.

There is no room for a system of indefinite detention without charge or trial under our Constitution. Detainees against whom there is legitimate evidence should be tried in our federal courts – not in the reconstituted military commissions now being proposed. Those against whom there is no legitimate evidence must not be given a de-facto life sentence by being locked up forever.