Abdul Rahman (Guantanamo detainee 357)

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Abdul Rahman is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] Rahman's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 357. American intelligence analysts estimate that Rahman was born in 1976, in Haji Baras, Afghanistan.

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
- 1.2 testimony
2 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with their hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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 a 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.

Abdul Rahman chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Abdul Rahman faced during his Tribunal were:

a. Association

The Detainee purchased a vehicle for the Taliban with Pakistani rupees.
The Detainee was with four other Taliban soldiers, who were his security force, when he purchased the vehicle.
The Detainee was in charge of and gave orders to the four Taliban soldiers, who were with him when he purchased the vehicle.
The Detainee was wearing a "Page" turban during the vehicle purchase.
The detainee traveled to Yerghanak, Afghanistan, with a large number of Pashtuns and Taliban soldiers to surrender to General Dostum's forces, and was then held at Mazar-e Sharif [sic] for approximately forty days before being turned over to the United States.