Said Muhammed Salih Hatim

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subject_name = Said Muhammed Salih Hatim

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1976
place_of_birth = Ibb, Yemen
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 255
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charge = No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Had his habeas corpus petition re-initiated in July 2008.
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Said Muhammed Salih Hatim is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] Hatim's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 255.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1976, in Ibb, Yemen.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

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 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.

ummary of Evidence memos

The Department of Defense has published multiple incompatible version of the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his CSR Tribunal.

A memorandum summarizing the evidence against Hatim prepared for his Combatan Status Reiew Tribunal, on October 18 2004 was among those released in March 2005. [http://www.dod.mil/pub/foi/detainees/csrt_Mar05.pdf#173 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)] prepared for Said Muhammed Salih Hatim's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - October 18 2004 - page 173] The allegations stated in this memo were: :

Another memorandum was prepared on October 8 2004, leveling the following allegations.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#87
pages=pages 87-88
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Hatim, Said Muhammed Salih
publisher=United States Department of Defense
author=OARDEC
date=8 OCtober 2004
accessdate=2008-09-30
quote= ]

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Testimony

Hatim chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_31_2145-2265.pdf#38 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Said Muhammed Salih Hatim's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 38-46]

Habeas petition

A petition of habeas corpus, Said Muhammed Salih Hatim v. George W. Bush, was filed on his behalf. cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1731-1808.pdf#38
pages=pages 38-62
title=Said Muhammed Salih Hatim v. George W. Bush -- Civil Action No. 05-cv-1429 (RMU)
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 23 2005
author=J.L. Hunt
accessdate=2008-09-30] In response the Department of Defense published 25 pages of unclassified documents from his Tribunal.

Tribunal panel 13 convened on 2 November 2004 and confirmed his enemy combatant status.

His [detainee election form stated his Personal Representative met for 35 minutes for a pre-Tribunal interview on October 27 2004.

Military Commissions Act

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.

Boumediene v. Bush

On June 12 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated.

On July 18 2008 David Remes, Marc D. Falkoff filed a "status report" on behalf of Hatim and fifteen other Guantanamo captives.cite web
url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/152/0.pdf
title=Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 152 -- STATUS REPORT
publisher=United States Department of Justice
author=David H. Remes, Marc D. Falkoff
date=2008-07-18
accessdate=2008-09-23
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.justia.com%2Fcases%2Ffederal%2Fdistrict-courts%2Fdistrict-of-columbia%2Fdcdce%2F1%3A2008mc00442%2F131990%2F152%2F0.pdf&date=2008-09-23 mirror] ]

Hatim has a 30-day transfer notice in effect. The Bush administration is obliged to inform the court, and Hatim's lawyers, if they are considering transferring him from Guantanamo.

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