Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun Explained

Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
Birth Date:13 November 1979[1] [2]
Date Of Arrest:2002
Arresting Authority:Pakistani security officials
Id Number:576
Charge:No charge
Status:Transferred to the United Arab Emirates

Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[3] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 576.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 13, 1979, in Ash-Shihr, Yemen.

Zahir arrived at Guantanamo on May 5, 2002.

He had a Periodic Review Board hearing on December 8, 2015.

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.[4] 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.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[4] [5]

OARDEC reviews

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:[6]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on October 14, 2004.[7]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun's first annual Administrative Review Board, on July 12, 2005.[8]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Za Her Omer Khamis's second annual Administrative Review Board, on August 20, 2006.[9]

A four-page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Zahar Omar Hamis bin Hamdoun's third annual Administrative Review Board, on September 13, 2007.[10]

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.[11] [12] A Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on March 27, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant Mark H. Buzby who recommended continued detention.

Hunger strike

On February 11, 2009, US District Court judge Gladys Kessler declined to bar the use of restraint chairs for force-feeding Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon and Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir.[13] Kessler's noted that Bawazir and Hamdoon petition stated that the use of the restraint chair was "tantamount to torture".However, she stated the opinion that because she lacked the medical expertise to evaluate the position of the camp's medical authorities she lacked jurisdiction to rule on the petition.

According to the Agence France Presse Bawazir and Hamdoon were not opposed to being force fed.According to the Agence France Presse camp authorities are withholding medical treatment for their other ailments from the hunger strikers, in an attempt to pressure them to quit their strike.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9YM-000576DP (S). 2023-08-26.
  2. Web site: Guantanamo Detainee Profile.
  3. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detaineesFOIrelease15May2006.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)
  4. 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..
  5. 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 . live.
  6. 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.
  7. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Hamdoun, Zahar Omar Harris Bin. 2004-10-14. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2015-12-09.
  8. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Hamdoun, Zahar Omar Harris Bin. July 12, 2005. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2007-11-11.
  9. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Khamis, Za Her Omer. 2006-08-20. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2007-11-11.
  10. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Hamdoun, Zahar Omar Hamis bin. 2007-09-13. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. 2010-03-28.
  11. 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 . . 2011-04-27 . 2012-07-13 . Christopher Hope . Robert Winnett . Holly Watt . Heidi Blake . 2012-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120715015806/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html . live . 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. .
  12. 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.
  13. News: Judge silent on Guantanamo force feeding case . . 2009-02-11 . 2009-02-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111104035824/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g4rSXciAQAQCUoqiCRPQy7TGeicw . 2011-11-04.

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