Abdul Samad

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Abdul Samad is a citizen of Afghanistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 911.

1 Identity
2 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
3 Administrative Review Board hearings
4 Abdul Samad's status
5 References

[edit] Identity

The US Department of Defense estimates he was born in 1982, in Zormat, Afghanistan.^[1] The human rights organization Reprieve reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross estimates he was born in 1987.^[2]

Main article: minors detained in the global war on terror

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

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.

[edit] Administrative Review Board hearings

Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

[edit] Abdul Samad's status

Participation in a Guantanamo captive's CSRT or ARB hearing was optional.^[2] There is no record of his participation in his CSRT or his first two ARB hearings. But his Tribunal and his ARB would have convened without him. According to Reprieve Samad was still detained in Guantanamo as of May 2, 2006.