Bahtiyar Mahnut

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Bahtiyar Mahnut is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 277. The Department of Defense reports that Mahnut was born on January 18, 1976, in Ghulja, China.

Mahnut is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.^[2]

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
2 Administrative Review Board hearing
3 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from 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 competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the 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 enemy combatant.

Mahnut chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[3]

[edit] allegations

The allegations against Mahnut were:

a Detainee is a member of Al Qaida.

detainee was in a Uighur training camp in Tora Bora from June 2001 to November 2001, and left the camp after the United States air campaign began.
Detainee was trained on the Kalashnikov rifle and tactics.
Detainee is a member of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement is an Islamic extremist movement linked to Al Qaeda.
Detainee was arrested with Arabs as a Pakistan mosque.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider 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.

Mahnut chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.^[4]