Jawed Ahmad

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Jawed Ahmad (also known as Jojo Yazemi) is an Afghan reporter working for Canadian media outlet CTV who was arrested by American troops and declared an unlawful enemy combatant, while working with NATO at Kandahar Airport on October 26, 2007.[1]

The 22-year old native of Kandahar[2] was accused of carrying phone numbers and videos of Taliban officials.[1]

He appeared before a military review, which determined there was "credible information" and is held at Bagram Airbase.[3]

His brother, Siddique[3], has been in contact with him during his detention, due to the efforts of the International Red Cross.[4] According to his brother, he has been beaten since being detained.[5]

Captives in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility do not have Combatant Status Review Tribunals convened to confirm their combatant status. According to Eliza Griswold in the The New Republic their status is determined by the base commander, who may convene a more secret, less formal, less thorough procedure called an "Enemy Combatant Review Board".[6] According to Grizwold:

Prisoners don't even have the limited access to lawyers available to prisoners in Guantánamo. Nor do they have the right to Combatant Status Review Tribunals, which Guantánamo detainees won in the 2004 Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. Instead, if a combat commander chooses, he can convene an Enemy Combatant Review Board (ECRB), at which the detainee has no right to a personal advocate, no chance to speak in his own defense, and no opportunity to review the evidence against him. The detainee isn't even allowed to attend. And, thanks to such limited access to justice, many former detainees say they have no idea why they were either detained or released.

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  1. ^ a b "Pentagon detains CTV's Afghan journalist", Toronto Sun, February 27, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-02. "A military spokesman says a review board has determined that Jawed Ahmad, an Afghan national, is a danger to foreign troops and the Afghan government." 
  2. ^ New York Times, Video Link Plucks Afghan Detainees From Black Hole of Isolation, April 13 2008,
  3. ^ a b Tang, Alisa. "Afghan CTV journalist declared enemy combatant", Toronto Star, February 27, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-02. "The U.S. military said today a journalist working for Canada's CTV television network, who has been held for four months without being charged, has been designated an unlawful enemy combatant." 
  4. ^ "Afghan journalist detained at Bagram Air Base", Committee to Protect Journalists, February 18, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-02. "New York, February 18, 2008—The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by the detention of Canadian Television (CTV) journalist Jawed Ahmad by U.S. military forces at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, for almost three months without charge." 
  5. ^ "U.S. should grant rights to detained CTV journalist: groups", CBC News, Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-03-02. "We are deeply troubled that Jawed Ahmad has been secluded in a U.S. military base for nearly three months without charge," Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said in a statement."The United States military must explain the reason for his detention and accord him due process. If he is not charged with any crime then he must be released immediately." 
  6. ^ Eliza Griswold. "The other Guantánamo. Black Hole", The New Republic, May 2, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-05. 
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