Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
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| File:ISN 00576, Za Her Omer Khamis.jpg
Zahar Hamdoun's Guantanamo identity portrait, showing him wearing a white uniform, showing he was a "compliant individual
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| Arrested | 2002 Karachi, Pakistan Pakistani security officials |
| Citizenship | Yemen |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 576 |
| Charge(s) | No charge |
| Status | Held in extrajudicial detention Has been on a hunger strike for several years |
Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 576. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 13 1979, in Ash Shihr, Yemen.
Zahir arrived at Guantanamo on May 5, 2002, and remains there today.[2][3]
He had a Periodic Review Board hearing on December 8, 2015.[4]
Contents
Official status reviews
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.[5] 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.
xxxOffice for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatantsxxx
Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[5][8]
OARDEC reviews
Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations[9]:
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... are associated with Al Qaeda."[9]
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[9]
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."[9]
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[9]
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the captives who was ab "al Qaeda operative".[9]
- Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun was listed as one of the "82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the military’s allegations against them."[9]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 14, 2004.[10]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's first annual Administrative Review Board, on July 12 2005.[11]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Za Her Omer Khamis's second annual Administrative Review Board, on August 20 2006.[12]
A four page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis bin Hamdoun's third annual Administrative Review Board, on September 13, 2007.[13]
Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[14][15] His [[Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on March 27, 2008.[16] It was signed by camp commandant Mark H. Buzby. He recommended continued detention.
Hunger strike
On February 11 2009 US District Court judge Gladys Kessler declined to bar the use of restraint chairs for force-feeding Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon and Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir.[17] Kessler's noted that Bawazir and Hamdoon petition stated that the use of the restraint chair was "tantamount to torture". But she stated the opinion that because she lacked the medical expertise to evaluate the position of the camp's medical authorities she lacked jurisdiction to rule on the petition.
According to the Agence France Presse Bawazir and Hamdoon were not opposed to being force fed. According to the Agence France Presse camp authorities are withholding medical treatment for their other ailments from the hunger strikers, in an attempt to pressure them to quit their strike.
References
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
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- ↑ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror
- ↑ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
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