This article needs to be updated.(June 2022) |
Wazir | |
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Arrested | 2002 United Arab Emirates |
Citizenship | Afghanistan |
Detained at | Bagram Theater Internment Facility |
Charge(s) | No charge |
Status | Held in extrajudicial detention (his habeas corpus petition was dismissed) |
Haji Wazir is a citizen of Afghanistan who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, and held since then in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater internment facility. [1] He is notable because he is one of the very few detainees in Bagram who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. [2] [3]
According to Lal Gul, chairman of the Afghan Human Rights Organization, Haji Wazir: "is not a commander, not a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. He is a businessman." [2]
Wazir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007. [4]
On June 29, 2009 US District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled that Wazir, unlike non-Afghans held in Bagram, was not entitled to pursue his habeas corpus petition. [5] The Guardian reported that Wazir was apprehended in the United Arab Emirates.
This article needs to be updated.(June 2022) |
Wazir | |
---|---|
Arrested | 2002 United Arab Emirates |
Citizenship | Afghanistan |
Detained at | Bagram Theater Internment Facility |
Charge(s) | No charge |
Status | Held in extrajudicial detention (his habeas corpus petition was dismissed) |
Haji Wazir is a citizen of Afghanistan who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, and held since then in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater internment facility. [1] He is notable because he is one of the very few detainees in Bagram who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf. [2] [3]
According to Lal Gul, chairman of the Afghan Human Rights Organization, Haji Wazir: "is not a commander, not a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. He is a businessman." [2]
Wazir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007. [4]
On June 29, 2009 US District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled that Wazir, unlike non-Afghans held in Bagram, was not entitled to pursue his habeas corpus petition. [5] The Guardian reported that Wazir was apprehended in the United Arab Emirates.