User:Geo Swan/Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan

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Geo Swan/Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan
Released2014
Uruguay
CitizenshipPalestinian National Authority
Detained at Guantanamo
Other name(s) Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan
ISN684
Charge(s)No charge, held in extrajudicial detention
StatusGranted asylum in Uruguay in 2014.

Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan is a Palestinian held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 684. He was transferred to Guantanamo on June 18, 2002.

Official status reviews[edit]

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.

Boumediene v. Bush[edit]

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.[3]

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. The judges considering the captives' habeas petitions would be considering whether the evidence used to compile the allegations the men and boys were enemy combatants justified a classification of "enemy combatant".[4]

Protective order[edit]

On 15 July 2008 Kristine A. Huskey filed a "NOTICE OF PETITIONERS’ REQUEST FOR 30-DAYS NOTICE OF TRANSFER" on behalf of captive 684 and several dozen captives.[5] The petition would prevent the Department of Defense from transferring him out of US jurisdiction without giving his attorney's thirty days notice. The Department of Defense had transferred some captives to countries where they were subsequently subjected to abusive treatment -- even though they had active habeas corpus petitions.


Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants[edit]

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 meter trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor.[6][7]

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.[2][8]

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:[9]

Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations[9]:

  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... associated with either" the Taliban or al Qaeda.[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the "34 [captives] admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps."[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who had "stayed at Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses."[9]
  • Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "some form of associational conduct."[9]

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment[edit]

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[10][11] His Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on It was signed by camp commandant He recommended [12]

Medical records[edit]

On March 16 2007 the Department of Defense published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan is one of the ten men whose height and weight records were withheld. The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.

Asylum in Uruguay[edit]

Mattan and five other men were granted asylum in Uruguay in 2014.[13] Mattan married in his first year in Uruguay. His wife bore him two daughters.

Documentary[edit]

Uruguayan director Guillermo Rocamora released a documentary, entitled La Libertad es una palabra grande (freedom is a big word), on Mattan, in 2019.[13][14][15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
  2. ^ a b "U.S. military reviews 'enemy combatant' use". USA Today. 2007-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-08-11. 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. ^ Peter D. Keisler, Douglas N. Letter (2006-10-16). "NOTICE OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2008-09-30. mirror
  4. ^ Farah Stockman (2008-10-24). "Lawyers debate 'enemy combatant'". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-10-24. mirror
  5. ^ Kristine A. Huskey (2008-07-15). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 63 -- NOTICE OF PETITIONERS' REQUEST FOR 30-DAYS NOTICE OF TRANSFER" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2008-11-13. mirror
  6. ^ Guantánamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court, New York Times, November 11, 2004 - mirror Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Inside the Guantánamo Bay hearings: Barbarian "Justice" dispensed by KGB-style "military tribunals", Financial Times, December 11, 2004
  8. ^ "Q&A: What next for Guantanamo prisoners?". BBC News. 2002-01-21. Archived from the original on 24 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-24.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Benjamin Wittes, Zaathira Wyne (2008-12-16). "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" (PDF). The Brookings Institute. Retrieved 2010-02-16. mirror
  10. ^ Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt, Heidi Blake (2011-04-27). "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". The Telegraph (UK). Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-07-13. 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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "WikiLeaks: The Guantánamo files database". The Telegraph (UK). 2011-04-27. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  12. ^ "x" (PDF). McClatchy News Services. 2011-04-27. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  13. ^ a b Ramiro Barreiro (2019-11-01). "El largo regreso a casa de Mohammed" [Mohammed's long homecoming]. El País (Uruguay) (in Spanish). Montovideo. Retrieved 2020-07-13.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "La historia de uno de los ex presos de Guantanamo en Uruguay llega al cine" [The story of one of the former prisoners of Guantanamo in Uruguay reaches the cinema]. El Obsservador (in Spanish). 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2020-07-13.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "'Liberdade é uma grande palavra' mostra vida pós-prisão de ex-detento de Guantánamo" ['Freedom is a big word' shows post-prison life of ex-Guantanamo detainee]. Journal do Comercio (in Spanish). 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2020-07-13.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "Para los exdetenidos de Guantánamo 'la libertad es una palabra grande'" [For Guantánamo ex-detainees 'freedom is a big word']. El Comercio (in Spanish). 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2020-07-13.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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