Bahraini People Imprisoned Abroad - Bahraini Extrajudicial Prisoners of the United States, Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bahraini Extrajudicial Prisoners of the United States, Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa, Adil Kamil Al-Wadi, Abdulla Majid Al Naimi, Bahraini Captives in Guantanamo, Khalil Janahi, Abdurrahim Al Murbati. Excerpt: Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa is a citizen of Bahrain who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 246. The Department of Defense reports that Al Khalifa was born on July 24, 1979, in Rifah, Bahrain. He is a member of the Al Khalifa royal family of Bahrain, related to King Hamad. Al Khalifa, like the other Bahrainis held in Guantanamo, has Joshua Colangelo-Bryan as his lawyer. Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents: Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a 3x5 trailer where the captive sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.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 combatantsthey were only empowered to make a recommendation as to whether a captive had previously been correctly determined t... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2622870