Ali Sher Hamidullah

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Ali Sher Hamidullah

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place_of_birth = Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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id_number = 455
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Cleared for repatriation or transfer in 2005.
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Ali Sher Hamidullah is a citizen of Uzbekistan who was 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 Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 455.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born on November 19 1974, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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.

Allegations

The allegations presented to his Tribunal werecite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#4
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal --
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=October 7 2004
pages=page 4
accessdate=2007-10-04] : :

Ali Sher Hamidullah's Presiding Officer interrupted his statement to ask what kind of training he had received.

Ali Sher Hamidullah answered that he never had any training. He requested an opportunity to finish his oral statement, without answering questions. His Presiding Officer would not permit this. So Ali Shah Hamidullah requested permission to leave.

Recommendations

The recommendations of his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official, were made public on September 4 2007.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000860-000968.pdf#60
title=Administrative Review Board assessment and recommendation for ICO ISN
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=December 19 2005
accessdate=2007-10-04
pages=page 60] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Decision_memos_000860-000968.pdf#61
title=Classified Record of Proceedings and basis for Administrative Review Board decision for ISN
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=December 23 2005
accessdate=2007-10-04
pages=pages 61-66] The recommendations were so heavily redacted that it is not possible to determine what the Board recommended.But the Department of Defense only made public the recommendations of captives who the Designated Civilian Official had cleared for release or transfer from Guantanamo.

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