Emam Abdulahat
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Emam Abdulahat 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 295.
Abdulahat is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.
Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
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[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.
Abdulahat chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]
[edit] Allegations
The allegations against Abdulahat were:
- a The detainee is associated with al Qaida.
- The detainee arrived in Afghanistan from China, via Pakistan, in August 2001.
- The detainee trained in a military training camp in Afghanistan.
- The detainee completed weapons training.
- The detainee stayed in a Uighur guesthouse in Jalalabad.
- The detainee traveledto Afghanistan without a passport.
- b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.
- The detainee was in Tora Bora for approximately three months during the U.S. bombing campaign.
[edit] testimony
[edit] References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20, 2006
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Emam Abdulahat'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 99-111
Categories: Guantanamo Bay detainees | Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States | Uyghur people | Guantanamo detainees known to have participated in their CSRT | Guantanamo detainee alleged to have attended a suspect military training camp | Guantanamo detainee alleged to have stayed in a guest house | Guantanamo detainee held because they were alleged to have fled the US bombing campaign | Guantanamo detainee held because they were alleged to have fled through Tora Bora
