Hajji Hajji ( ar, الحجّي; sometimes spelled Hadji, Haji, Alhaji, Al-Hadj, Al-Haj or El-Hajj) is an honorific title which is given to a Muslim who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca. It is also often used to refer to an elder, since i ...

Shahzada is a citizen of

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who was held in

extrajudicial Extrajudicial punishment is a punishment for an alleged crime or offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding. Politically motivated Extrajudicial punishment is often a fe ...

detention in the

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Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in

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. Shahzada's Guantanamo

Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts. History On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from ...

was 952.

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command. Since January 2002 the command ha ...

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analysts estimate that Shahzada was born in 1959, in Belanday, Afghanistan. Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Mohammad Khan's

Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were estab ...

dossier contains a letter from Shahzada. Khan was arrested while he was a guest of Shahzada.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the

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to captives from

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. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a

competent tribunal Competent Tribunal is a term used in Article 5 paragraph 2 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states: ICRC commentary on competent tribunals The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) commentary on Article 5 of the Third Geneva Con ...

s to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of

prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...

status. Subsequently the

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instituted the

s. 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

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Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Haji Shah Zada's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 12 January 2005. The memo listed the following allegations against him:

Transcript

Shahzada chose to participate in his

. On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the

published a nine-page summarized transcripts from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant

The

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reports that Shahzada was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. They report that Shahzada has been released. The Department of Defense refers to these men as No Longer Enemy Combatants.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shahzada Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Living people 1959 births Year of birth uncertain