Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor Sliti Explained

Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor Sliti
Birth Date:12 February 1966
Birth Place:Hamam Lif, Tunisia
Id Number:174
Charge:No charge (extrajudicial detention)
Status:Given asylum in Slovakia in November 2014

Hisham Sliti, is a citizen of Tunisia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 174. The list of the names of all the Guantanamo detainees states that his date of birth was February 12, 1966, in Hamam Lif, Tunisia.He was transferred to Guantanamo on May 1, 2002, and held there for twelve and a half years.On November 20, 2014, Sliti and Hussein Salem Mohammed were granted asylum in Slovakia.

Clive Stafford Smith represents Sliti as one of his lawyers.

Sliti reported to his lawyers that he was beaten on August 5, 2005. Sliti claims that his interrogator threw a chair, and a mini-fridge at him, and then called in the initial reaction force.[1] Sliti participated in a widespread hunger strike during July 2005, and then participated in a second hunger strike that started in August 2005 due to Qur'an desecration.

The Slovak Spectator reports that Sliti was arrested by Slovak security officials, and the release of their arrest video stirred controversy.

Official status reviews

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention.[2] In 2004, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[2] [3]

Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[4]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared his Combatant Status Review Tribunal on November 19, 2004.[5] [6]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti's first annual Administrative Review Board, on September 9, 2005.[7]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti's second annual Administrative Review Board, on June 4, 2006.[8]

The OARDEC records show that Sliti did not attend his reviews in 2004 or 2005, he did attend in 2006.[9] The Department of Defense released a 21-page summarized transcript from this hearing.

Habeas corpus petition

Sliti had a habeas corpus petition, 05-cv-429, filed on his behalf.

On December 30, 2008, US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that Sliti, and, in a separate ruling, that Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, "were part of or supported the Taliban", and thus could continue to be held in US custody.[10] [11] [12] [13] Leon did not believe Sliti's assertion that he traveled to Afghanistan to quit drugs and get married, stating his:

The New York Times called the two rulings: "the first clear-cut victories for the Bush administration", while Andy Worthington noted they represented a "disturbing development".

Reuters reported that Jonathan Hafetz of the American Civil Liberties Union responded that:[13]

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[14] [15] His Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was dated October 1, 2008.[16] His assessment was eleven pages long, and was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention at Guantanamo.

Re-arrest in Slovakia

Sliti was arrested, in his home, by Slovakian security officials.A video of the capture was acquired and broadcast by al Jazeera. Some accounts suggest the video was officially made by the police, and illicitly leaked to al Jazeera. Other accounts suggest the video was an unofficial one, recorded by a third party witness to the arrest.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.theguardian.com/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5252168,00.html U.S. Denies Guantanamo Bay Prison Abuse
  2. News: U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use . . 2007-10-11 . 2007-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071023220558/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-11-guantanamo-combatants_N.htm . live . Critics called it an overdue acknowledgment that the so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals are unfairly geared toward labeling detainees the enemy, even when they pose little danger. Simply redoing the tribunals won't fix the problem, they said, because the system still allows coerced evidence and denies detainees legal representation..
  3. News: Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners? . . 2002-01-21 . 2008-11-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081123204530/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1773140.stm . 23 November 2008 . bot: unknown .
  4. Web site: The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study. The Brookings Institution. 2008-12-16. Benjamin Wittes. Benjamin Wittes. Zaathira Wyne. 2010-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170519100934/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf. 2017-05-19. live.
  5. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- name redacted (released March 2005) . 19 November 2004 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 62–63 . . 2007-12-05 . 2006-07-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060731081044/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_mar05.pdf#page=62 . dead.
  6. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Sliti, Hisham Bin Al Bin Amor (released September 2007) . 19 November 2004 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 78–79 . . 2007-12-05 . 2007-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204202342/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#page=78 . dead.
  7. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Sliti, Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor . 2005-09-09 . OARDEC . OARDEC . 1–2 . . 2007-12-06 . 2007-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071214105656/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#1 . dead.
  8. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Sliti, Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor. 2006-06-04. OARDEC. OARDEC. 52–54. United States Department of Defense. 2007-12-05. 2007-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20071214101738/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#page=52.
  9. Web site: Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings of ISN 174. OARDEC. OARDEC. 105–125. United States Department of Defense. 2007-12-05. 2007-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20071214100158/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_2000-2099.pdf#page=105.
  10. Web site: Hisham Sliti v. George W. Bush -- 05-cv-429: Memorandum order. United States Department of Justice. Richard J. Leon. Richard J. Leon. 2008-12-30. 2009-01-22. 2015-06-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20150620011506/http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sliti-order-12-30-08.pdf. live.
  11. News: Judge Agrees With Bush in Ruling on 2 Detainees. New York Times. William Glaberson. William Glaberson. 2008-12-30. 2008-12-31. 2015-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20150820190947/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/washington/31gitmo.html?_r=1&hp. live. A federal judge in Washington ruled Tuesday that the government was properly holding two Guantánamo detainees as enemy combatants, the first clear-cut victories for the Bush administration in what are expected to be more than 200 similar cases..
  12. News: Judge Denies Release For 2 at Guantanamo . . A05 . 2008-12-31 . 2008-12-31 . 2015-07-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150711004323/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123003031.html . live.
  13. News: U.S. judge rejects release of two Guantanamo inmates . . Randall Mikkelsen . Randall Mikkelsen . 2008-12-31 . 2008-12-31 .
  14. News: WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed -- Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose. Christopher Hope. 2011-04-27. 2012-07-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20120715015806/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html. 2012-07-15. live. The Telegraph (UK). Robert Winnett. The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.. Holly Watt. Heidi Blake.
  15. News: WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2012-07-10. 2015-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20150626204100/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8476672/WikiLeaks-The-Guantanamo-files-database.html. dead.
  16. News: Hasham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti: Guantanamo Bay detainee file on Hasham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti, US9TS-000174DP, passed to the Telegraph by Wikileaks. The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. 2012-09-01. 2015-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20150411010716/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/guantanamo-bay-wikileaks-files/8477426/Guantanamo-Bay-detainee-file-on-Hasham-Bin-Ali-Bin-Amor-Sliti-US9TS-000174DP.html. live.

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