When Faiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari appeared before the federal government’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) last week, it was the Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee’s second hearing after being rejected for release last June.

The multiple appearances in front of the PRB, which President Barack Obama created by executive order in March 2011, puts the 40-year-old al-Kandari in rare company. Only one other detainee out of the 54 eligible for the PRB has had more than one shot at parole since the panel began hearing cases in November 2013.

The purpose of the board, which is comprised of senior officials from the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, as well as the Joint Staff and the Office of the Director of National Security, is not to decide whether a detainee is guilty or innocent of terrorist acts. Instead, it decides whether a detainee poses a “continuing significant threat” to the U.S.

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