Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid

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Mahmud Abd Al Aziz al-Mujahid
ISN 00031, Mahmud al-Mujahid.jpg
BornAugust 1980 (age 44) [1] [2]
Taiz, Yemen
Released2016-08-15
United Arab Emirates
CitizenshipYemen
Detained at Guantanamo
ISN 31
Charge(s) extrajudicial detention

Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for over fourteen and a half years, from January 11, 2002, to August 15, 2016. [3] [4] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 31. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts report that he was born in August 1980, in Taiz, Yemen.

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He arrived in the first cohort of twenty individuals who opened the prison. [4] The Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force classed him as a "forever prisoner", in 2009. [5] [6] He was transferred to United Arab Emirates, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016. [7] [8]

Official status reviews

Originally, the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. [9] In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpg
Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. [9] [12]

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations: [13]

Al Mujahid chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunals. [14]

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [15] [16] His ten-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on March 8, 2008. [17] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.

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