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Hukumra Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 1157. more...

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 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.

Khan chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Hukumra Khan requested three witnesses.

witness requests

The Tribunal President decided since they would all testify to the same facts they would only allow one witness. Three requests were made to the State Department to contact the detainee’s father - without success. So the witness was ruled “not reasonably available”. Khan thought that his witness could testify that his family shared two rifles with his uncle; that the satellite phone was used to call family

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