Salahidin Abdulahat

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Emam Abdulahat is a citizen of Wikipedia:China, held in Wikipedia:extrajudicial detention in the Wikipedia:United States Wikipedia:Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Wikipedia:Cuba. His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 295. Wikipedia:Joint Task Force Guantanamo Wikipedia:counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on Wikipedia:June 1 Wikipedia:1977, in Konashahar, China.

Abdulahat Mamut is one of the 22 detainees from the Uighur ethnic group. Uighurs were held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.

Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Wikipedia:Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

He won his Wikipedia:habeas corpus in 2008. Judge Wikipedia:Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the Wikipedia:United States. He was sent to Wikipedia:Bermuda in June 2009.

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Combatant Status Review

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with their hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press; three chairs were reserved for members of the press. In practice, most Tribunals went unobserved; the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held, and when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. Only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Christopher Mobley

Originally the Bush (WP) Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the wars for capitalism and oil, known as the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. They were not offered the protections afforded by criminal law either, leaving them in a legal limbo through years of detention. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligations, and to keep the Geneva Conventions at arms' length, the concept of competent tribunals was invented, tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

The Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (WP). The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants, again to avoid the Geneva Conventions standards -- 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 enemy combatant, further attempting to institutionalize a standard that stood against the consensus of international law.

Critics mounted legal challenges to this policy. Justice James Robertson ruled that the United States was obliged under article 5 of the Wikipedia:third Geneva Conventionthird Geneva Convention to treat all prisoners as lawful combatants, who would be entitled to prisoner of war status, unless a "competent tribunal" had determined that they were not lawful combatants.

The policies of the tribunals themselves were also challenged by the Judicial branch. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

The released prisoners are arrogantly, even absurdly called "No longer enemy combatants" (WP); an attempt to make numerous issues, including illegal arrest and holding without trial, disappear in plain sight.
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Abdulahat was among the 60% of prisoners who participated in the tribunal hearings. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal of each detainee. The memo for his hearing lists the following allegations:

Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Wikipedia:Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's 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.

Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO

Wikipedia:wikisource:Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO

Documents released in response to the Wikipedia:writ of habeas corpus Wikipedia:Hassan Anvar v. George W. Bush contained a memo entitled: "Wikipedia:Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO". This memo, dated Wikipedia:30 October Wikipedia:2004, provides one paragraph biographies of 22 Uighur captives. The memo asserts that all 22 captives are suspected of membership in the "Wikipedia:East Turkistan Islamic Movement". The memo describes the Uighur camp as an "Wikipedia:ETIM training camp".

The portion of the document devoted to Emam Abdulahat states:

Enam Abdulahat is a 27-year-old Chinese citizen. who is an ethnic Uighur from the (sic) Konashahar China. Abdulahat was last interviewed on 10 August 2004. He had a disciplinary action on 6 October 2004 for being in possession of a triangular piece of metal. Abdulahat is suspected as being a probable member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). He is suspected of having received training in an ETIM training camp in Afghanistan.

Summary of Evidence memo

Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".

Following the Supreme Court's ruling that prisoners the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. Gul attended his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board (WP) hearings. The US government, careful to avoid the standards of international law, made a point of declaring that Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, as this would have invoked the Geneva Convention standards. They further distanced the ARB boards from international consideration by distancing the ARB boards from the CSRT and the government's own definition of "enemy combatant", by not authorizing the ARB boards to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were set on a purely opportunistic venture to assess the government's self interest, in the manner of the villain holding a gun to a hostage's head and saying, "don't make me do this". "If we do the right thing and release these prisoners, the board asked, "will we be inconveniencing ourselves?" And so they considered whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Emam Abdulahat's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on Wikipedia:8 November Wikipedia:2004. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a The detainee is associated with Wikipedia:al Qaida.

1. The detainee arrived in Wikipedia:Afghanistan from China, via Wikipedia:Pakistan, in August 2001.
2. The detainee trained in a military training camp in Afghanistan.
3. The detainee completed weapons training.
4. The detainee stayed in a Uighur guesthouse in Wikipedia:Jalalabad.
5. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan without a passport.

b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.

1. The detainee was in Wikipedia:Tora Bora for approximately three months during the U.S. bombing campaign.

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Abdulahat chose to participate in his Wikipedia:Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Current status

Five Uyghurs, whose CSR Tribunals determined they had not been enemy combatants were transferred to detention in an Albanian refugee camp in 2006. A man who was born to Uyghur parents, in Saudi Arabia, and thus was considered a Uyghur, was nevertheless returned to Saudi Arabia. All the other Uyghurs remain in Guantanamo.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense released all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2006. There is no record that a Board reviewed his status in 2005 or 2006.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense released the recommendation memos from 133 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2005 and the recommendation memos from 55 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2006. No recommendation memos were released for Emam Abdulahat.

Freedom

Emam Abdulahat and three other Uyghurs Wikipedia:Abdul Helil Mamut, Wikipedia:Huzaifa Parhat and Wikipedia:Jalal Jalaladin, were set free in Bermuda on June 11 2009.

External links

• From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs Wikipedia:Andy Worthington October 9, 2008
• Judge Ricardo Urbina’s unclassified opinion (redacted version)
• MOTIONS/STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES BEFORE THE HONORABLE RICARDO M. URBINA
• Human Rights First; Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)

References

Wikipedia:Template:ETIM Wikipedia:Template:ListUyghurCaptivesWikipedia:Template:Exonerated Guantanamo captives