- Abu Bakker Qassim v. George W. Bush
Abu Bakker Qassim, et al. v. George W. Bush, et all. (05-5477), is a case in which two Muslim Uyghurs challenged their detention at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base inCuba .Facts
In late 2001,
Abu Bakker Qassim andA'Del Abdu Al-Hakim were both captured and transferred toUnited States custody inAfghanistan , where they were later held at "Camp Delta " on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as enemy combatants. In 2005, theCombatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) determined them to be "no longer enemy combatants" (NLECs). They are currently in legal limbo as they refuse to go back to their nativeChina for fear of torture and the United States refuses to admit them into the country.Court Decisions
They petitioned the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia for awrit ofhabeas corpus which was later denied onDecember 22 ,2005 . The District Court found that the federal courts have "no relief to offer." OnJanuary 17 ,2006 , while on appeal to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , Qassim and al-Hakim petitioned theSupreme Court of the United States for awrit of certiorari , which was denied without explanation onApril 17 ,2006 . Their case is scheduled for oral argument onMay 8 ,2006 .The United States released the petitioners to
Albania on May 5, 2006, three days before oral argument was to begin in the Court of Appeals. On an emergency motion filed later that day by theUnited States , the case was dismissed as moot. [ [http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/8-14%20qassim%20order.pdf R:ORDERPRP
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