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95: 48:, and prepared under his supervision by research fellows at the center. It was released on October 17, 2006. It is one of a series of studies on the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the detainees, and government operations that the Center for Policy and Research has prepared based on Department of Defense data. 279:
Co-author Joshua Denbeaux tells me: 'The government's own documents proved that the government's claims that the prisoners were the 'worst of the worst' was a false and shameful public relations ploy ... We hope that our reports will convince Congress to amend the Military Commissions Act and restore
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between July 8, 2004 through March 29, 2005, to provide an impartial tribunal for detainees to challenge their detention. It was developed as an alternative to detainees' taking habeas corpus petitions through the federal court system. The status of each detainee was reviewed to see if they qualified
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If the actual trials of the detainees are as empty and shallow and pre-ordained as were the Status Review Tribunals there is every reason to be mortified at the prospect -- made real by the legislation -- that the federal courts will be frozen out of vital oversight functions. If a regular trial
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Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been
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This is the trailer where the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held. The detainee's hands and feet are shackled to a bolt in the floor in front of the white plastic chair. Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were
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In three cases, the panel found that the detainee was "no longer an enemy combatant," but the military convened new, second tribunals that were told to reconsider the evidence and found each of the three to be enemy
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court proceeding were this shoddy, this unwilling to perform a truth-seeking function, this unable to achieve a fair process, the judge presiding over it would be impeached.
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The report was based upon information given by lawyers for 102 Guantanamo detainees and transcripts of the tribunals, which were released by the government under a
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federal jurisdiction.' If that happens, the prisoners could contest their conditions of confinement, their imprisonment, and their sentences.
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convened multiple Tribunals for some captives when their original Tribunals determined they should not have been classified as
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In 74 percent of the cases, the government denied requests to call even those witnesses who were detained at the prison.
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that the "conditions of confinement and a total lack of the due process that the Supreme Court ordered in '
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to serve as tribunals for the detainees. In addition, the process was to fulfill the obligation under
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The military refused all requests for defense witnesses who were not detained at Guantanamo.
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The military denied all detainee requests to inspect the classified evidence against them.
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request. The Center study was based on DOD data, some of which was incomplete.
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said, "These were not hearings. These were shams;" he called the hearings a
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from 2004 to 2005. The study is notable as the first documentation that the
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In 91 percent of the hearings, the detainees did not present any evidence.
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The government did not produce any witnesses in any hearing.
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These hearings were conducted based on the assertion by the
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Guantanamo Bay captives legal and administrative procedures
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The Denbeaux represent two detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
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The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held by the
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Following the United States Supreme Court's rulings in
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in mind, Andrew Cohen, the legal commentator of the
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Index

No-hearing hearings
Mark P. Denbeaux
Center for Policy and Research
Seton Hall University School of Law
Joshua Denbeaux
Combatant Status Review Tribunals
Guantánamo Bay
OARDEC
enemy combatants
Freedom of Information Act
Associated Press

Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Rasul v. Bush
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Combatant Status Review Tribunals
Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention
Bush administration
war in Afghanistan
prisoner of war
Article 2 of the GCIII
unlawful combatant
United States Department of Defense
enemy combatant
Center for Policy and Research
Associated Press
Freedom of Information Act
Mark Denbeaux
show trial
Military Commissions Act of 2006

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