Saleh Abdall Al Oshan

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Saleh Abdall al Oshan is a Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention is the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 248. The Department of Defense reports that al Oshan was born on July 1, 1979 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
2 Repatriation
3 See also
4 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.

Al Oshan case was considered by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal but he chose not to participate.^[2]

[edit] Repatriation

Reuters cites a Human Rights Watch report that said that an individual named Salih al-Awshan, and two other Saudis, were repatriated to Saudi custody on July 20, 2005.^[3] As of May 26, 2006 the three remain held, without charge, in Riyadh's al-Ha'ir prison.