Rasool Shahwali Zair Mohammed Mohammed

Rasool Shahwali Zair Mohammed Mohammed is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 835.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on June 1, 1976, in Khowst, Afghanistan.

Mohammed's older brother was also detained in Guantanamo.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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 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.

Mohammed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal., from Rasool Shahwali Zair Mohammed Mohammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 13-28

Allegations

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