Originally the BushPresidency 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.[7] 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.
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.
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:[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives whom the "military alleges ... are associated with Al Qaeda."[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives whom the "military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives whom the "military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives whom the "military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[11]
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the "82 detainees [who had] made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."[11]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's first annual Administrative Review Board, on July 12, 2005.[13]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Za Her Omer Khamis's second annual Administrative Review Board, on August 20, 2006.[14]
A four-page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis bin Hamdoun's third annual Administrative Review Board, on September 13, 2007.[15]
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On February 11, 2009, US District Court judgeGladys Kessler declined to bar the use of restraint chairs for force-feeding Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon and Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir.[19] Kessler's noted that Bawazir and Hamdoon petition stated that the use of the restraint chair was "tantamount to torture". However, she stated the opinion that because she lacked the medical expertise to evaluate the position of the camp's medical authorities she lacked jurisdiction to rule on the petition.
According to the Agence France Presse Bawazir and Hamdoon were not opposed to being force fed. According to the Agence France Presse camp authorities are withholding medical treatment for their other ailments from the hunger strikers, in an attempt to pressure them to quit their strike.
↑ Carol Rosenberg (2015-12-08). "Another Guantánamo 'forever prisoner' makes appeal for release". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. So if allowed to be released to another country, attorney Pardiss Kebriaei said her Center for Constitutional Rights is prepared to offer years of long-term support ranging from "financial assistance and referrals for needs large and small, ranging from live-in interpreters and mental health care, to laptops and language CDs."
1 2 "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2007-10-23. Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation.
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