Abdul Matin
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Image:Casio F91W.jpg Abdul Matin is an Afghani held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.<ref name=Dfp>Casios cited as evidence at Guantanamo, Detroit Free Press, March 10 2006</ref> Matin's detainee ID number is 1002.<ref name=DoDList2>list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15 2006</ref> Matin's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 1002.
When the Department of Defense was forced to comply with US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff's court order to release the documents from the Guantanamo detainees's Combatant Status Review Tribunals Matin's name came to light on March 3 2006.<ref >Common Casio watch becomes evidence at Guantanamo</ref>
Matin is notable because one of the reasons he was detained was that he was captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.<ref name=Dfp>Casios cited as evidence at Guantanamo, Detroit Free Press, March 10 2006</ref><ref>Casio page of Abdul Matin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal</ref>
[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal
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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 a 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.
Matin chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=CsrtMatin>Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Matin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 23-50</ref>
[edit] Administrative Review Board hearing
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.
Matin chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.<ref name=ArbMatin>Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abdul Matin's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 192-202</ref>
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