Mohammad Sanghir

Mohammad Sanghir is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 143.American intelligence analysts estimate that Sanghir was born in Kohestan, Afghanistan, in 1952.__TOC__

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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.

Sanghir was released before the institution of Combatant Status Review Tribunals in July 2004.

Muhammad Sagheer

On June 24 2004 the "Daily Times" reported on a lawsuit initiated by a former Guantanamo detainee named Muhammad Sagheer. [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-6-2004_pg7_33 LHC to hear damages suit by former Guantanamo detainee] , "Daily Times", June 24 2004] According to the "Daily Times", Sagheer is suing the US Government for $10.4 million, for "..."what he called his illegal detention at Guantanmao Bay and the mental and physical torture he had been afflicted with."

On May 15 2006 the U.S. Department of Defense released a list of 759 men, which they described as a full list of all the Guantanamo detainees who had been held in military custody. [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Muhammad Sagheer, who the "Daily Times" reports was repatriated to Pakistani custody on November 4 2002. [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-6-2004_pg7_33 LHC to hear damages suit by former Guantanamo detainee] , "Daily Times", June 24 2004] Mohammad Sanghir is the name which is the closest match to that of Muhammad Sagheer.

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