Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan
Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan is a Palestinian held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 684.
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Military Commissions Act
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, so all outstanding habeas corpus petitions were stayed.[2]
Boumediene v. Bush
On June 12 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the Military Commissions Act could not remove the right for Guantanamo captives to access the US Federal Court system. And all previous Guantanamo captives' habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated. The judges considering the captives' habeas petitions would be considering whether the evidence used to compile the allegations the men and boys were enemy combatants justified a classification of "enemy combatant".[3]
Protective order
On 15 July 2008 Kristine A. Huskey filed a "NOTICE OF PETITIONERS’ REQUEST FOR 30-DAYS NOTICE OF TRANSFER" on behalf of captive 684 and several dozen captives.[4] The petition would prevent the Department of Defense from transferring him out of US jurisdiction without giving his attorney's thirty days notice. The Department of Defense had transferred some captives to countries where they were subsequently subjected to abusive treatment -- even though they had active habeas corpus petitions.
rough work
Scholars at the Brookings Institute, lead by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations[5]:
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... associated with either" the Taliban or al Qaeda.[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges ... traveled to Afghanistan for jihad."[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses."[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who "The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency."[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who was an "al Qaeda operative".[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the "34 [captives] admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps."[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who had "stayed at Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses."[5]
- Mohammed Abdullah Tahamuttan was listed as one of the captives who had admitted "some form of associational conduct."[5]
2006 annual Administrative Review Board
A three page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his annual Administrative Review Board. [6] The three page memo listed ten "Primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and five "Primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer". According to the memo:
- Tahanmatan had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat religious group since he was fourteen.
- Tahanmatan had traveled to Pakistan on a religious exchange in October 2001.
- Tahanmatan is alleged to have considered traveling to Afghanistan, even though the Tablighi Jamaat leadership prohibited travel there, because it was too dangerous.
- Tahanmatan did not travel to Afghanistan. He was arrested with sixteen other men in a "guest house in Faisalabad", which was "was used by a senior al Qaida operative.
- Tahanmatan father had been alienated from his brothers for twenty years. Tahanmatan believed this alienation might have been because his uncles had been associated with Hamas.
- Tahanmatan was alleged to have seen Afghan refugees and Arabs who had fled Afghanistan.
- Tahanmatan disputed that he had ever personally been involved with any militant groups.
Medical records
On March 16 2007 the Department of Defense published height and weight records for all but ten of the captives held in Guantanamo.[7] Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan is one of the ten men whose height and weight records were withheld. The Department of Defense has not offered an explanation for why no records for those ten men were published.
2014 Transfer to Uruguay
Mattan was transferred to Uruguay, on December 7, 2014.[8][9]
All six men were taken to hospital, upon their arrival.[8]
References
- ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.
- ↑ Peter D. Keisler, Douglas N. Letter (2006-10-16). "NOTICE OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006". United States Department of Justice. http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/files/Hamdan.28j.letter.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-30. mirror
- ↑ Farah Stockman (2008-10-24). "Lawyers debate 'enemy combatant'". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/10/24/lawyers_debate_enemy_combatant/. Retrieved 2008-10-24. mirror
- ↑ Kristine A. Huskey (2008-07-15). "Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 63 -- NOTICE OF PETITIONERS’ REQUEST FOR 30-DAYS NOTICE OF TRANSFER". United States Department of Justice. http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/63/0.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-13. mirror
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study". The Brookings Institution. 2008-12-16. Archived from the original on 2017-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170519100934/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1216_detainees_wittes.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
- ↑ OARDEC (2006-11-14). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Tahanmatan, Mohammed". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 27-29. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_700-798.pdf#27. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
- ↑ JTF-GTMO (2006-03-16). "Heights, weights, and in-processing dates". Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Freports%2Fheights-weights-and-in-processing-dates&date=2008-12-25. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Jenifer Fenton; Daniel Schweimler (2014-12-07). "6 Gitmo detainees arrive in Uruguay for resettlement". Aljazeera. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20160913032325/http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/7/guantanamo-resettlementuruguay.html. Retrieved 2022-02-06. "Uruguayan President José Mujica, an ardent critic of the Guantánamo facility, said the resettled six would have the status of refugees. “The day they want to leave, they can leave,” he said, rebuffing a U.S. condition that they stay in Uruguay for at least two years."
- ↑ Richie Davis (2014-12-10). "Ashfield lawyer Stewart Eisenberg no longer has any Guantanamo prisoners as clients for first time in decade". Hampshire Gazette (Ashfield, New Hampshire). Archived from the original on 2022-02-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20220206205505/https://www.gazettenet.com/Archives/2014/12/EISENBERG-HG-121014. Retrieved 2022-02-06. "With the transfer of 35-year-old Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan to Uruguay, along with five other prisoners held for years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Eisenberg said Tuesday that “we’re absolutely celebrating.” He is one of about 20 lawyers who have been representing the Syrian, Tunisian and Palestinian detainees freed after a dozen years in captivity."
