Hisham Sliti

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Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor Sliti
Born: February 12, 1966 (1966-02-12)
Hamam Lif, Tunisia
Detained at: Guantanamo
ID number: 174
Conviction(s): no charge, held in extrajudicial detention

Hisham Sliti, a Tunisian, is currently being held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] Sliti's Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 174. The list of the names of all the Guantanamo detainees states that his date of birth was February 12, 1966, in Hamam Lif, Tunisia

Little was known about Sliti before his detainment. Clive Stafford Smith represents Sliti as one of his lawyers.

Sliti reported to his lawyers that he was beaten on August 5, 2005. Sliti claims that his interrogator threw a chair, and a mini-fridge at him, and then called in the initial reaction force.[2] Sliti participated in a widespread hunger strike during July 2005, and then participated in a second hunger strike that started in August 2005 due to Qur'an desecration.

Contents

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive. During the period July 2004 through March 2005 a Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened to make a determination whether they had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Participation was optional. The Department of Defense reports that 317 of the 558 captives who remained in Guantanamo, in military custody, attended their Tribunals.

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 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.

[edit] Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor Sliti's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 19 November 2004.[3][4] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban and al Qaida:
  1. Originally from Hamam Lif, Tunisia[5], the detainee traveled to Jalalabad, Afghanistan via Italy; Belgium; Paris, France; London, England; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Peshawar, Pakistan.
  2. The detainee was aided in his travels from Belgium to Afghanistan by a known Belgian-based Islamic facilitator.
  3. The detainee received training on the use of light arms at the Khaldan Camp near the Khowst Province, and the Derunta Camp in Jalalabad.
  4. The detainee is associated with the Tunisian Combat Group.
  5. The Tunisian Combat Group is a terrorist organization with links to al Qaida.
  6. The detainee was associated with a group involved in providing false passports/visas to senior terrorist members as well as having promoted and facilitated their travels through several western countries.
  7. The detainee lived in a Tunisian guesthouse in Jalalabad.
  8. The Tunisian guesthouse in Jalalabad consisted of Tunisian immigrants that formed a network to train and fight against the Tunisian government.
  9. In December 2001, the detainee was arrested at the Afghanistan border, while attempting to cross into Pakistan.

[edit] Transcript

There is no record that Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor Sliti participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearings

Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".
Hearing room where Guantanamo captive's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant".[6]

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

[edit] First annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 9 September 2005.[7] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] Second annual Administrative Review Board

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 4 June 2006.[8] The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.

[edit] Transcript

Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti participated in his Board.[9] The Department of Defense released a 21 page summarized transcript from this hearing.

[edit] References

  1. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ U.S. Denies Guantanamo Bay Prison Abuse, The Guardian, September 2, 2005
  3. ^ OARDEC (19 November 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (released March 2005) pages 62-63. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  4. ^ OARDEC (19 November 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Sliti, Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor (released September 2007) pages 78-79. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  5. ^ When this document was first released, in March 2005, the location "Hamam Lif, Tunisia", was redacted.
  6. ^ Spc Timothy Book. "Review process unprecedented", JTF-GTMO Public Affairs Office, Friday March 10, 2006, pp. pg 1. Retrieved on 2007-10-10. 
  7. ^ OARDEC (9 September 2005). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Sliti, Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor pages 1-2. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
  8. ^ OARDEC (4 June 2006). Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Sliti, Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor pages 52-54. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.
  9. ^ OARDEC. Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 174 pages 195-125. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.