Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi
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Conclusion
Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's Tribunal based its conclusion on classified evidence.His Tribunal unanimously concluded that he had properly been deternmined to have been an "enemy combatant".
Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi v. George W. Bush
A writ of habeas corpus, Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi v. George W. Bush, was submitted onAli Ahmed Mohammed Al Rezehi's behalf.
In response, on 14 October 2004
the Department of Defense released 26
pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Mentioned in the "No-hearing hearings" study
According to the study entitled, No-hearing hearingsNo-hearing hearings
No-hearing hearings is the title of a study published by Professor Mark P. Denbeaux of the Seton Hall University School of Law, his son Joshua Denbeaux, and some of his law students, on October 17, 2006....
, there was an anomaly in Al Rahizi's record.
Al Rahizi's Personal Representative
Personal Representative (CSRT)
The Personal Representative is an officer who serves before the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, convened for the captives the United States holds in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-History of the Tribunals:...
met with him for twenty minutes on September 23, 2004.
Al Rahizi's Tribunal convened on September 28, 2004, without Al Rahizi being present.
The study quoted from the Summary of the Basis for Tribunal Decision:
The study then commented:
The factors for and against continuing to detain Al Rahizi were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.
First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 31 January 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
Transcript
There is no record that Ali Ahmed Mohammed Al Razehi participated in his first annual Review.An affidavit his brother sent to Guantanamo was included with the ARB transcripts.
According to his brother their 65 year old father supports their family by selling vegetables from a cart.
Ali Ahmed Mohmmed Al Razehi finished high school. He then went and fulfilled his obligatory national military service. He disappeared soon afterwards.
According to his brother:
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Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 19 July 2006.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
Third annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi's third annual Administrative Review Board, on 19 July 2006.
The three
page memo listed fourteen
"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five
"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
Board recommendations
One January 9, 2009, the Department of Defense published two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his continued detention on November 13, 2007.
External links
- Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty” Andy Worthington, September 15, 2010