Ali Sher Hamidullah
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Ali Sher Hamidullah was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
[edit] Identity
Guantanamo contained several individuals named Hamidullah.
- On the list of captives the DoD released on May 15, 2006, Ali Sher Hamidullah's Guantanamo detainee ID number was listed as 455.[1] American intelligence analysts report that captive 455 was born on November 19, 1974, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- On the list of captives the US Department of Defense released on April 20, 2006, Ali Sher Hamidullah's Guantanamo detainee ID number was listed as 456.[2] American intelligence analysts estimate that captive 456 was born in 1974, in Kushki Nakod, Afghanistan.
[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.
Neither captive 455 or captive 456 chose to participate in their Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
