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 Guantanamo detainee ID number is 295. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 1, 1977, in Konashahar, China.

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

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]

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[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 his 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.
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 his 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.

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

[edit] Allegations

The allegations against Abdulahat were:

a The detainee is associated with al Qaida.
  1. The detainee arrived in Afghanistan from China, via 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 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 Tora Bora for approximately three months during the U.S. bombing campaign.

[edit] testimony

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 26-39
  3. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Emam Abdulahat'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 99-111
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