Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy

Egyptian former Guantanamo Bay detainee (born 1956)

Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Alkinani (born October 28, 1956) is an Egyptian professor who was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 287. Analysts reported that he was born on October 28, 1956, in Shubrakass Egypt. He was repatriated to Egypt on September 30, 2005. He was later classified by the United States Department of Defense as a no longer enemy combatant.

Prior to the Invasion of Afghanistan, he was a professor teaching English and Arabic at Kabul University.

At least three separate writs of habeas corpus were filed on his behalf. US District Court Judges Reggie Walton, Kennedy and Leon considered his detention as part of three separate habeas cases: Mohammon v. Bush, Sliti v. Bush and Aziz v. Bush. He was identified as "Alla Al Mossary", "Abdul Aziz Al Mossary" and "Abu Abdul Aziz". on three separate habeas petitions. In September 2007, the United States Department of Defense published 179 dossiers in response to captives' habeas petitions however his was not published.

On March 16, 2007, the Department of Defense published records of the captives' height and weights. Most captives' weights were recorded regularly. Sami al Laithy's weight was recorded just seven times—once in February 2002, then in March, April, May, June, September, October 2004, and finally in May 2005. Shortly after his arrival to Guantanamo, during a beating administered in the prison hospital, a guard threw him on the floor, and stomped on his back. He cites constant pain ever since. The beating crushed two of his vertebrae, confining him to a wheelchair. He says he believes that the prison authorities denied him medical care that would have prevented him from eventually becoming paralyzed. His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, requested for Al Laithi to receive medical care for his injuries, to release of his prison medical records, and for him to be released from solitary confinement. Al Lathi remained in solitary confinement, after he had been determined to have been an innocent bystander, unlike the detainees who had been determined to have been Chinese dissidents, who were housed in the more amenable Camp Iguana.