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Emad Abdalla Hassan (born June 26, 1979) is a Yemeni citizen, who was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan, and transported to the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba where he is currently held as an enemy combatant.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 680. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on June 26, 1979, in Aden, Yemen.

As of October 6, 2010, Emad Abdalla Hassan has been held at Guantanamo for eight years four months.[2]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal[]

File:Trailer where CSR Tribunals were held.jpg

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a trailer the size of a large RV. The captive sat on a plastic garden chair, with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[3][4] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.[5]

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant

Hassan agreed to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[6]

Allegations against Hassan[]

The allegations against Hassan were:

a. The detainee is an Al Qaeda fighter:
  1. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to fight in the Jihad.
  2. The detainee avowed he would follow a fatwa that declared Jihad and would not quesiton the guidance of his leader.
  3. The detainee affirmed that if a leader of his tribe ordered an attack on America, he would be bound by duty to obey.
  4. While in Afghanistan, the detainee received training at the Al-Farouq training camp.
  5. The detainee traveled to both the Khandahar and the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan.
  6. The detainee was arrested by Pakistani Authorities in Faisalabad, Pakistan, along with several oter living in the same house, who were from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Libya, Russia and Pakistan.


Hunger strike and Force-Feeding[]

Al Murbati participated in the hunger strikes of 2005.[7]

Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study[]

According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearings, Emad Abdalla Hassan was an example of a detainee who was arbitrarily denied the opportunity to present exculpatory documents to his Tribunal.[8] The study questioned whether he would have been determined not to have been an enemy combatant if the Tribunal had been able to find his passport in the evidence locker.

References[]

  1. OARDEC (2006-05-15). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. ' [1] The New York Times
  3. Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
  4. Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  5. "Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials". United States Department of Defense. March 6, 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902. Retrieved 2007-09-22. 
  6. documents (.pdf), from Emad Abdalla Hassan's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, US Department of Defense - mirror pages 106-112
  7. Forced feeding at Guantanamo is now acknowledged [2] Eric Schmitt, Tim Golden 22 February 2006
  8. Mark Denbeaux, Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner. "No-hearing hearings". Seton Hall University School of Law. p. 17. http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf. Retrieved April 2, 2007. 

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