Hozaifa Parhat

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Hozaifa Parhat

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1971|2|11
place_of_birth = Ghulja, China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 320
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = cleared for release
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Hozaifa Parhat is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Internment Serial Number ("ISN") is 320. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born in February 11, 1971, in Ghulja, China.

Parhat is one of 22 Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo.

"Parhat v. Gates"

He is the lead petitioner in "Parhat v. Gates", no. 06-1397 (D.C. Cir.), a case brought by seven Uyghurs challenging their "enemy combatant" designation under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005.cite news
url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/Parhat_v_Gates/pet_mot_po_20061218.pdf
title=Hufaiza Parhat v. Robert M Gates
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=Erika Tillery
date=December 18, 2006
accessdate=2008-04-08
quote=]

Susan Baker Manning, one of Parhat's attorneys, commented:quote
If we're going to hold people, possibly for the rest of their lives, it seems eminently fair that we should look at all the evidence to see if they are or are not the people who should be at Guantánamo.cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/washington/12gitmo.html?ref=todayspaper
publisher="New York Times"
author=William Glaberson
title=Officials Cite Danger in Revealing Detainee Data
date=Wednesday, September 12, 2007
accessdate=2007-09-12
page=A18]

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#55
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Parhat, Hozaifa
date=8 November 2004
pages=pages 55-56
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-19] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

quote|1=

1. The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban:
   # The detainee departed China in May 2001 and traveled to Tora Bora, Afghanistan via Pakistan.
   # The detainee received training on the Kalashnikov sic AK-47 assault rifle and other light weapons at a Uighur training camp in Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
   # The training camp was provided to the Uighurs by the Taliban.
   # The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) operated facilities in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in which Uighur expatriates underwent small arms training. The camps were funded by Bin Laden and the Taliban.
   # The detainee lived at the Uighur training camp from early June through mid-October 2001 until the United States bombinb campaign that destroyed the camp.
2. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.
   # The detainee stated that the Uighur training camp was destroyed during the first night of the United States bombing campaign.
   # The detainee fled along with others farther into the mountains of Tora Bora with the initiation of the United States bombing campaign.
   # The detainee was captured in Pakistan fleeing Afghanistan with other Uighur and Arab personnel in 2001.

Transcript

Parhat chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_18_1463-1560.pdf#43
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 43-54
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-08] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Judge Jed Rakoff, the Department of Defense published a ten page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
title=US releases Guantanamo files
publisher=The Age
date=April 4, 2006
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=]

Response to the allegations

* Parhat acknowledged traveling to Afghanistan, from China, via Pakistan.
* Parhat acknowledged being shown how to use two different weapons while in Afghanistan.
* Parhat testified he didn't know who provided the camp.
* Parhat disputed that the Taliban or al Qaida funded the camp.
* Parhat acknowledged living in the camp from mid-June through mid-October.
* Parhat acknowledged that the camp was destroyed by US aerial bombardment. He did not know whether it was bombed on the first night of the bombing campaign, or not.
* Parhat acknowledged fleeing the bombing with the other Uyghurs.
* Parhat acknowledged being captured, in Pakistan, together with the other Uyghurs.

Opening statement

Parhat disputed that he and the other Uyghurs were opposed to the United States.

Beige uniform

"Non-compliant" captives are issued orange uniforms. Compliant captives are usually issued white uniforms. Hofaiza Parhat wore a beige uniform to his Tribunal.:

Oliphant also quoted Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a Guantanamo spokesman, who defended the record of GI's at Guantanamo::

References

External links

*cite news
url=http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080712/OPINION09/807120314/-1/OPINION
title=Flimsy evidence, arrogance keep detainee in limbo
publisher=Erie Times
author=
date=2008-07-12
accessdate=2008-07-19
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goerie.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Farticle%3FAID%3D%2F20080712%2FOPINION09%2F807120314%2F-1%2FOPINION&date=2008-07-19 mirror]