Wasim

Wasim, Waseem, Wassim, Vaseem, or Vasim (Arabic: وسیم ‎) (Telugu: వసీం ) is a masculine Arabic given name and surname meaning handsome. Its feminine form is Waseema.

People

Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay

A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were classified by the US government as enemy combatants.

In addition, a United States citizen, Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana but moved as a child with his parents to Saudi Arabia, where he also had citizenship, was initially held there. As an American citizen, he was transferred to a military prison brig on the mainland of the United States. His challenge to his detention, without being informed of charges or brought to trial, was a case that reached the United States Supreme Court. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), the Supreme Court ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority. After this decision, the government made a deal with Hamdi. After he agreed to renounce his US citizenship and observe travel restrictions, in October 2004 Hamdi was deported to Saudi Arabia. He has returned to his family.

Wasim (actor)

Mesbah Uddin Ahmed (known by his stage name Wasim) is a former Bangladeshi film actor.

Filmography

Personal life

Wasim had a daughter, Bushra Ahmed.

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