Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim
Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim is a citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 716.[1]
Combatant Status Review
Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the "War on Terror", while critics argued the Conventions obligated the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners.[2] Subsequently, the US Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".
From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant".[3] These hearings would allow Guantanamo detainees to challenge their “enemy combatant” status and ultimately their detention.
Because the Department of Defense failed to list Salim's name on the official lists of detainees it is unclear whether he participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant
The Washington Post reports that Salim was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[4] They report that Salim has not been released. The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.
Salim filed requests not to be repatriated to Egypt because he had been imprisoned and tortured there.[5][6][7]
Release
Three of the remaining Guantanamo captives who were determined not to have been enemy combatants were released to Albania in November 2006.[8][9][10] The men were not identified, other than by nationality. One of the released men was an Egyptian. The Washington Post list of 30 of the 38 men who were determined not to have been enemy combatants listed two Egyptians, Salim, and Sami Al Laithi. Al Laithi was confirmed to have been repatriated on October 5, 2005. They were reported to have been the last of the men classified as "no longer enemy combatants to have remained in custody.
References
- ↑ http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/716-allah-muhammed-saleem
- ↑ "Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?". BBC News. 2002-01-21. Retrieved 2008-11-24. mirror
- ↑ OARDEC, Index to Transcripts of Detainee Testimony and Documents Submitted by Detainees at Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo Between July 2004 and March 2005, September 4, 2007
- ↑ "Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed [sic] as 'No Longer Enemy Combatants'". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 August 2006.
- ↑ Civil Action 1:05-CV-270: petitioners' status conference report and supplemental memorandum (.pdf), Department of Justice, January 17, 2006
- ↑ Civil Action 1:05-CV-270: Respondents' notice of changed circumstances, withdrawal of motion, and supplemental memorandum (.pdf), Department of Justice, January 23, 2006
- ↑ United States of America Ending Guantánamo Bay detentions, Amnesty International, June 23, 2006
- ↑ Albania to take over released Guantanamo detainees, People's Daily, November 19, 2006
- ↑ Albania confirms it will shelter 3 released Guantanamo detainees, International Herald Tribune, November 18, 2006
- ↑ 3 released Guantanamo detainees arrive in Albania, International Herald Tribune, November 20, 2006
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