Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad | |
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Born | [1]
[2] Al Buraiqeh District, Yemen | June 25, 1980
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 041 |
Charge(s) | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [3] [4] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 41. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 15, 1980, in Al Buraiqeh District, Yemen.
He was transferred to United Arab Emirates, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016. [4] [5] [6]
Ahmad was named inconsistently on official documents released by the Department of Defense.
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. [10] 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. [10] [13]
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: [14]
He has had a habeas corpus petition released on his behalf.: [15] A dossier of unclassified documents from his tribunal was released in 2005.
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [16] [17] His twelve-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 24, 2008. [18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.
Two of the Afghan prisoners — Mohammed Kamin and Obaidallah, who only has one name — had been briefly charged in a military commission, The Miami Herald reports. The war crimes prosecutor dropped those charges.
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.
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad | |
---|---|
Born | [1]
[2] Al Buraiqeh District, Yemen | June 25, 1980
Detained at | Guantanamo |
ISN | 041 |
Charge(s) | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [3] [4] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 41. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 15, 1980, in Al Buraiqeh District, Yemen.
He was transferred to United Arab Emirates, with fourteen other men, on August 15, 2016. [4] [5] [6]
Ahmad was named inconsistently on official documents released by the Department of Defense.
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. [10] 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. [10] [13]
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: [14]
He has had a habeas corpus petition released on his behalf.: [15] A dossier of unclassified documents from his tribunal was released in 2005.
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. [16] [17] His twelve-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on February 24, 2008. [18] It was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.
Two of the Afghan prisoners — Mohammed Kamin and Obaidallah, who only has one name — had been briefly charged in a military commission, The Miami Herald reports. The war crimes prosecutor dropped those charges.
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.