Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii | |
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Born | [1]
[2] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | June 30, 1979
Arrested | late 2001 official accounts differ official accounts differ |
Citizenship | Yemen |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 508 |
Charge(s) | extrajudicial detention |
Status | Transferred to Oman |
Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii (born June 30, 1979) is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [3] [4] His detainee ID number was 508.
Rabeii was cleared for release on December 1, 2016. [5] He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017. [6] [7] [8]
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.
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]
In the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, it is the Recorder's responsibility to act like a Prosecutor, and compile and distribute the allegations against the detainee. [15] During Rabeii's hearing, the Tribunal members asked the recorder to explain why the wording of the allegations, as read out, differed from the wording in copies they had been given to read.
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [16] [17] An 11-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 29, 2008. [18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.[ citation needed]
So in this instance, the board isn't rejecting an earlier assessment. Instead, it found that Rabeii "does not currently demonstrate an extremist mind-set or appear to be driven to reengage by extremist ideology."
The freed prisoners were not identified by name or nationality, though the Oman News Agency, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported that the 10 had arrived in the country on Monday for "temporary residence."
A Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the transfer had taken place, downsizing the detainee population to 45. Neither Oman nor the official provided the identities of the 10 men who were sent there.
A Pentagon statement did not explain why the Department of Defense chose to wait to identify the 10 men for more than a day after the Sultanate of Oman announced it had taken them in as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."
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.
The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
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Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii | |
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Born | [1]
[2] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | June 30, 1979
Arrested | late 2001 official accounts differ official accounts differ |
Citizenship | Yemen |
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 508 |
Charge(s) | extrajudicial detention |
Status | Transferred to Oman |
Salman Yahya Hassan Muhammad Rabeii (born June 30, 1979) is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [3] [4] His detainee ID number was 508.
Rabeii was cleared for release on December 1, 2016. [5] He was transferred to Oman with nine other men, on January 16, 2017. [6] [7] [8]
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.
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]
In the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, it is the Recorder's responsibility to act like a Prosecutor, and compile and distribute the allegations against the detainee. [15] During Rabeii's hearing, the Tribunal members asked the recorder to explain why the wording of the allegations, as read out, differed from the wording in copies they had been given to read.
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [16] [17] An 11-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 29, 2008. [18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.[ citation needed]
So in this instance, the board isn't rejecting an earlier assessment. Instead, it found that Rabeii "does not currently demonstrate an extremist mind-set or appear to be driven to reengage by extremist ideology."
The freed prisoners were not identified by name or nationality, though the Oman News Agency, citing the country's Foreign Ministry, reported that the 10 had arrived in the country on Monday for "temporary residence."
A Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the transfer had taken place, downsizing the detainee population to 45. Neither Oman nor the official provided the identities of the 10 men who were sent there.
A Pentagon statement did not explain why the Department of Defense chose to wait to identify the 10 men for more than a day after the Sultanate of Oman announced it had taken them in as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."
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.
The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
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