Said Bezan Ashek Shayban

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Said Bezan Ashek Shayban is a citizen of Wikipedia:Saudi Arabia held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Wikipedia:Cuba. Shayban's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 346. American intelligence analysts estimate that Shayban was born in 1981, in Ta'iz, Saudi Arabia.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Wikipedia:Geneva Conventions to captives from Wikipedia:the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a Wikipedia:competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of Wikipedia:prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Wikipedia:Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an Wikipedia:enemy combatant.

Allegations

During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Wikipedia:Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying Shayban's detainee ID. The allegations Shayban would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Wikipedia:Taliban.

1. At the end of April 2001, the detainee traveled to Wikipedia:Afghanistan via Wikipedia:Qatar, Wikipedia:Bahrain, Wikipedia:Karachi, Wikipedia:Quetta, and Wikipedia:Chaman, Wikipedia:Pakistan.
2. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and to fight against the Northern Alliance.
3. The detainee was a member of a Taliban rifle squad equipped with Wikipedia:AK-47s.
4. A member of the same Taliban rifle squad has been identified as Abdul ((Khaliq)) Template:sic.
5. ################# is a Taliban leader and a commander of Wikipedia:Afghani Military Forces Template:sic (AMF).
6. The detainee and eleven Afghanis spent six months protecting troop bunkers and holding a defensive line near Wikipedia:Kabul, Afghanistan.
7. The detainee stayed at a Taliban mosque in Wikipedia:Chaman, Pakistan, for two months.
8. The detainee left his defensive position near Kabul, Afghanistan, and fled to Pakistan.

Testimony

Shayban chose not to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Repatriation

On November 26th, 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of captives' departure dates. According to that list Shayban was repatriated on May 18th 2006.

Medical records

thumb|Said Bezan Ashek Shayban weight fluctuations at Guantanamo.

On March 16 2007 the Wikipedia:Department of Defense published records of the captives' height and weights. The report states Shayban was 68 inches tall. According to the record his weight was recorded eighty-eight times. His weight was recorded five times in 2002, six times in 2003, seven times in 2004. In late 2005 his weight dropped precipitously, and his weight started being recorded several times a week. His weight continued to be recorded daily for the first fourteen days of January 2006 -- when his weight was dangerously low. His weight crossed back in to the healthy range in January. His weight was recorded three more times in 2006, on February 28th, April 24th and 31st December. The February and April weights are in the middle of the healthy range. The December weigh-in is recorded six months after Shayban left Guantanamo, and, at 113.5 pounds, is, again, too low for health.

His records showed other precipitous weight losses and gains.

He lost seven pounds between his first weigh-in, on February 14th, 2002 and a weigh-in the next day on February 15th.

There are two weights recorded for May 2004 -- 144 and 132 pounds.

He went from 120 pounds to 140 pounds between September 3rd and September 12th. A second weight was recorded on September 12th -- 125 pounds. By September 15th his weight had dropped to 118 pounds -- where it remained for the next four weigh-ins in September 2005.

Three weights were recorded on January 2nd, 2006 -- 117, 132 and 114 pounds.