A US government committee has decided to reject a request to release a Palestinian from the Guantanamo prison, the first prisoner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The statement on the decision of the US government's Board of Periodic Review stated "past involvement in terrorist activity".
Prisoner Zain el Ibidin Muhammad Hussein previously appeared before the board in August.
He has been in the American base in Cuba since September 2006.
He was captured in 2002 and is the first CIA prisoner to be subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" that critics consider torture.
His lawyers say he is not a threat to the US and should be released or at least charged.
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