Documents On Detainees At Guantanamo Questioned
By: Tommy Elder, Jr.
Castigating the Bush Administration`s contention- a judicial body out of the Court of Appeals from the District of Columbia handed down a decree that Huzaifa Parhat, an Uighur Muslim from Western China, ``was not properly held as an enemy combatant.``
In discussing the decision- Glenn M. Sulmasy, a law professor, from the Coast Guard Academy and a National Security Fellow at Harvard said- This case displays the inadequacies of having civilian courts inject themselves into military decision-making.`
Argued on June 12, 2008, prior to the United States Supreme Court`s decree on detainees i.e. these individuals may use the heabeas corpus procedure to challenge their detention. Professor Marc D. Falkoff, a member of the Law Faculty at Northern Illinois University College of Law stated that the accusation leveled against many of 270 detainees at Guantanamo closely resemble the Parhat case.
Originally, Mr. Parhat languished in detention starting in 2004. He and sixteen fellow Uighurs were captured in Afghanistan in 2001. According to the seventeen detained Uighurs at the Guantanamo Military Prison Facility- they came into this area as friends of the United States of America not as her enemies.
As they handed down their decision- the jurists noted that with the evidence considered in this case- `Those bare facts cannot sustain the determination that Parhat is an enemy combatant.`
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