Chinese Muslims Held at Guantanamo Aren’t Considered Enemy Combatants
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
A federal judge is considering whether to order a group of detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay released into the United States, in what would instantly become a landmark legal decision in the years-long battle over the [...]
by William Fisher
As a federal appeals court ruled that the U. S. military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay an “enemy combatant” and ordered that he be released, transferred, or granted a new hearing, an influential congressional committee delivered a scathing criticism of China’s closed trial of 15 men on terrorism charges [...]
By Robert Parry
The first Guantanamo Bay “enemy combatant” review case to go before a federal appeals court has offered a peek down the rabbit hole of capricious irrationality that underlies George W. Bush’s [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a detainee peers through a hole used to allow food and other items into detainee cells at Camp Delta detention center on Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
In reversing a military tribunal’s determination that a Chinese detainee was an “enemy combatant,” a federal appeals court criticized the government’s evidence and compared its legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]
In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an “enemy combatant”.
The appeal court judges said the Pentagon must either free or transfer Huzaifa Parhat or hold a fresh hearing.
Mr Parhat, a Muslim from China, was captured in [...]
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in the United States.
The two lawmakers, Reps. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said the Uighurs — [...]
Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence
By JUSTIN ROOD
U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims [...]
Sabin P. Willett [attorney for Guantanamo Uighur detainee Huzaifa Parhat; Bingham McCutchen LLP]: “For years, lawyers for Guantanamo detainees have argued that the “evidence” on which their clients were held is remarkably flimsy. On Friday, April 4, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit got its first close look [...]
Seema Saifee, a US lawyer representing 4 of 17 Uygur detainees in Guantanamo Bay that have been unlawfully arrested
and deported from Afghanistan.
Below is an article written by Seema Saifee published by Jursit:
British historian and journalist Andy Worthington has described Guantánamo as part of “a cruel and misguided response by the Bush administration to the September [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by holding the men - all cleared for release - in complete isolation in the supermax-style [...]
The stories of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from the oppressed Xinjiang province of China, formerly known as East Turkistan — have long demonstrated chronic injustice on the part of the US authorities to those who know of them, although they have only sporadically registered on the media’s radar.
Numbering 22 men in total, three [...]
In a rare direct appeal from inside Guantanamo Bay, a Chinese Muslim has said he is continuing to be held in harsh conditions at the US detention centre, despite being told years ago that he was innocent and would be released.
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In a letter released by his New York-based lawyers and obtained by the Associated Press, [...]
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