Muhammad Ali Abdallah Muhammad Bwazir is a citizen of

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, once held in

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in the

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Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in

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. Bwazir's Guantanamo

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was 440. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980, in Hawra', Yemen. Bwazir arrived in Guantanamo on May 1, 2002. In December 2015, unnamed officials leaked that Congress had been given notice that 17 individuals would be transferred from Guantanamo starting in thirty days. The US military planned to transfer the last three of those seventeen on January 21, 2016. Both his lawyers and military officials were surprised when Bwazir balked at the last moment, and declined repatriation. On January 5, 2017, Bwazir and three other Yemeni men were transferred to

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Hunger strike

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'' reports that Bwazir's lawyers assert that Bawazir was one of those participating in the 2006 Guantanamo hunger strike, and that the new harsher procedures camp authorities instituted to break the

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violated last fall's proscription on torture.Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tactics Are Called Torture
''

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'', February 28, 2006 Camp authorities have been force-feeding hunger strikers. In January 2006, camp authorities started using "

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s" to feed detainees.First Violation of McCain Torture Amendment Alleged in Emergency Injunction
, ''

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'', February 28, 2006 The

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(CCR) is a First Violation of McCain Torture Amendment Alleged in Emergency Injunction: Attorneys File to End Further Torture of Guantánamo Detainee on Hunger Strike
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(CCR) is a Gitmo Prisoner Says Strikers Force-Fed
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'', February 9, 2006 Medical records show Bawazir was restrained in the chair longer than the manufacturer's directions.

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Jeremy Martin asserted that the force-feedings were conducted humanely. He explained the extraordinary duration of the detainee's confinement to the restraint chair was due to the length of time the force-feeding took. U.S. government lawyers argued that the bans on

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and cruel and unusual treatment didn't apply to captives in

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.U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban: McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison
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'', March 3, 2006 Justice

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called the allegations "extremely disturbing". On February 11, 2009,

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declined to bar the use of

s for force-feeding Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir and Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon. Kessler has noted that Bwazir and Hamdoon's 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,'' Bwazir and Hamdoon were not opposed to being force fed, and so claimed in their petition that the use of restraints was unnecessary. 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.

Official status reviews

Originally, the

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asserted that captives apprehended in the ''"

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"'' were not covered by the

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, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004, the

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ruled, in

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, 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

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set up the

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. Scholars at the

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, 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: * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir 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."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges ... fought for the Taliban."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter. * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the captives who ''"deny affiliation with Al Qaeda or the Taliban yet admit facts that, under the broad authority the laws of war give armed parties to detain the enemy, offer the government ample legal justification for its detention decisions."'' * Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir was listed as one of the eight captives who could not be fit into the Wittes team's other classifications.

habeas corpus

A habeas corpus petition was filed on Bwazir's behalf in 2005.

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization

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published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. His 9-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on October 27, 2008. It was signed by camp commandant

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David M. Thomas Jr. He recommended continued detention.

References

External links

Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)
Andy Worthington, September 17, 2010
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir: Allegations of Abuse
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bwazir, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Living people Year of birth uncertain 1980 births