Dawd Gul

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Dawd Gul is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] Gul's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 530. American intelligence analysts estimate that Gul was born in 1980, in Zedana, Afghanistan.

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[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed. The neutrality of this section is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page.(December 2007)Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.
Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[2][3] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[4]
The neutrality of this section is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.(December 2007)
Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.

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.

Gul chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[5]

[edit] Confusion

Gul told his Tribunal he didn't understand the Tribunal process. Much of the transcript reflects Gul's confusion.

[edit] Testimony

Gul said he had been forcibly conscripted by the Taliban to be a cook's assistant. After a rumor that he had tried to poison the food, he was no longer allowed in the kitchen.

[edit] Gul's orange uniform

Gul's transcript records that Gul drew the attention of his Tribunal to his orange uniform:

"The Detainee asked the Tribunal to look at his orange clothes. The Detainee stated that the Tribunal can turn those black. The Detainee stated that it is all in the Tribunal's hands."

Main article: Guantanamo captive's uniforms

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
  3. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  4. ^ Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials. United States Department of Defense (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
  5. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Dawd Gul's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 93-99