Yusef Abbas
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Yusef Abbas is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, April 20 2006 His detainee ID number is 275.
Abbas is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.[China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo], Asia Times, November 4 2004
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.
Abbas chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Yusef Abbas'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 18-25
allegations
The allegations against Abbas were:[Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Yusef Abbas'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 18-25
associations
- ''a The detainee is a part of a force associated with al Qaida or the Taliban.
- #''The detainee traveled from China to Afghanistan via Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan in the summer of 2001.
- #''From approximately 01 August through 01 October 2001, the detainee attended the Uighur training camp in the Tora Bora Mountains where he received instruction in the Kalashnikov rifle.
commitment/activities
- #''The detainee participated in the battle of Tora Bora.
- #''The detainee was wounded as a result of coalition bombing, and received medical treatment from the Taliban.
- #''The detainee retreated from Tora Bora to Pakistan in late 2001, where he was arrested by Pakistani authorities.
testimony
References
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