Hiztullah Yar Nasrat

Hiztullah Nasrat Yar or Izatullah Nasrat Yar is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held for almost five years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.<Yar issued a sworn statement in support of his crippled father, Nasrat Khan, who was also detained in Guantanamo before being released in September 2006. Both father and son were represented by attorney Peter M. Ryan, from Dechert.^[1]

Izatullah Nasrat Yar is running for office to become an elected Afghan lawmaker in the 2010 fall's legislative elections.^[2]

Capture

Nasrat was taken prisoner when he was found in a courtyard that contained approximately 700 light arms. He told Americans that he had been among 50 Afghans hired by government official Abdul Rahim Wardak to protect the weapons. His father went to the Army to complain about his son's arrest, and was arrested himself - although no charges or accusations were ever laid against him.^[1]

Combatant Status Review

Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.^[3]

Repatriation

The Center for Constitutional Rights reports that all of the Afghans repatriated to Afghanistan from April 2007 were sent to Afghan custody in the American built and supervised wing of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul.^[4]

Yar spent a further six months in Afghan custody.^[2]

Candidate for national office, 2010

The Miami Herald reports that Hiztullah is the first "enemy combatant" from Guantanamo Bay to run for Afghanistan's legislature.^[2]

See also

• Nasrat Khan his elderly father formerly detained at Guantanamo

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Fox, Ben. San Francisco Chronicle, "71-year old Gitmo Detainee Released, August 28, 2006
2. ^ ^{a b c} Dion Nissenbaum (2010-08-04). "Ex-Guantánamo detainee seeks office in Afghanistan". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/04/1761511/ex-guantanamo-detainee-runs-for.html#ixzz0vgY3oKjd. Retrieved 2010-08-06. "In a country whose young parliament is filled with warlords, suspected drug barons, one-time mujahedeen fighters and religious zealots, Izatullah Nasrat Yar can still make history. Yar has set out to become the first "enemy combatant" from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to become an elected Afghan lawmaker in this fall's legislative elections." ^{[dead link]} mirror
3. ^ "Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials". March 6, 2007. http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902. Retrieved November 12, 2010. 
4. ^ "International Travel". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2008. http://ccrjustice.org/files/CCR_Annual_Report_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-13. "CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei traveled to Kabul to follow the situation of Guantánamo prisoners being returned to Afghanistan. Since April 2007, all such prisoners have been sent to a U.S.-built detention facility within the Soviet era Pule-charkhi prison located outside Kabul."  mirror

External links

• Guantánamo: The Stories of Three Innocent Jordanians and an Afghan, Just Released Andy Worthington

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