Dawut Abdurehim

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Dawut Abdurehim is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Abdurehim's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 289. American intelligence analysts estimate Abdurehim was born in 1974, in Ghulja, China.

Abdulrehim is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 Allegations
- 1.2 Testimony
2 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 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 them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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.

[edit] Allegations

A memorandum summarizing the evidence against Abdurehim prepared for his Combatan Status Reiew Tribunal, was among those released in March of 2005.^[2] The allegations Abdurehim faced during his Tribunal were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban.

The detainee is citizen of China who traveled to Afghanistan, via Kyrgyzstan [sic] and Pakistan, to receive military training at a military training camp in the Tora Bora mountains.
The detainee lived at the Uighur [sic] training camp from June to October 2001.
The training camp was provided to the Uighers [sic] by the Taliban.
The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM} operated facilities in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in which Uighur [sic] expatriates underwent small arms training. These camps were funded by bin Laden and the Taliban [sic]
ETIM is listed on the state departments terrorist exclusion list.
While at the camp, the detainee received training on the Kalashnikov rifle, handguns, and other weapons.
Following the destruction of the training camp by the United States bombing campaign, the detainee traveled to a village in Pakistan where he was captured.