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The '''Periodic Review Boards''' are an ''"administrative procedure"'' for recommending whether certain individuals held in the | The '''Periodic Review Boards''' are an ''"administrative procedure"'' for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba are safe to release or transfer, or whether they should continue to be held without charge.<ref name=MiamiHerald2013-11-15/><ref name=RussiaToday2013-07-22/><ref name=AlJazeera2013-07-24/><ref name=ApBenFoxPrb2014-01-25/> | ||
The boards are authorized by and overseen by the | The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat, which United States President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7, 2011. | ||
Although Obama authorized the Secretariat to conduct periodic reviews in early 2011 the first review was not conducted until late 2013. | Although Obama authorized the Secretariat to conduct periodic reviews in early 2011 the first review was not conducted until late 2013. | ||
During the second review, on January 28, 2014, that of | During the second review, on January 28, 2014, that of Abdel Malik al Rahabi, nine reporters and four human rights workers were allowed to observe a video-link to the 19 minute unclassified portion of the hearing.<ref name=HrwAndreeaPrasow2014-01-28/> | ||
69 other individuals can expect to have their status reviewed. | 69 other individuals can expect to have their status reviewed. | ||
Almost half of the individuals still at Guantanamo have already been cleared for release or transfer -- some as long ago as 2005, so critics have questioned how meaningful it had been to clear | Almost half of the individuals still at Guantanamo have already been cleared for release or transfer -- some as long ago as 2005, so critics have questioned how meaningful it had been to clear Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid for release. | ||
Individuals who have faced charges, become eligible to have their status reviewed by a Periodic Review Board, if the charges they faced are dropped. | Individuals who have faced charges, become eligible to have their status reviewed by a Periodic Review Board, if the charges they faced are dropped. | ||
In 2013 24 new individuals who the | In 2013 24 new individuals who the Guantanamo Review Task Force had recommended should face charges, had those charges dropped, and became eligible for review, when appeals courts had overturned convictions for ''"providing material support for terrorism"''. | ||
On July 21, 2013, | On July 21, 2013, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the ''Miami Herald'', reported that the announcement that the Boards would finally be convened followed a ''"flurry of emails"'' to the captives attorneys -- after years of delay.<ref name=MiamiHerald2013-07-21/> | ||
Rosenberg noted that the announcement from | Rosenberg noted that the announcement from Norton C. Joerg, a former officer and senior lawyer with the United States Navy, came at the height of the most widespread Guantanamo hunger strike. | ||
==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
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| || 2011-03-07 || In | | || 2011-03-07 || In Executive Order 13567 President Obama authorizes the Periodic Review Secretariat.<ref name=MiamiHerald2013-11-15/><ref name=RussiaToday2013-07-22/><ref name=AlJazeera2013-07-24/><ref name=ApBenFoxPrb2014-01-25/> | ||
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| || 2013-07-25 || | | || 2013-07-25 || Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid and Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi are the first two individuals to be advised they would have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release -- even though the evidence to charge them with a crime did not exists.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| || 2013-09-25 || | | || 2013-09-25 || Ali Ahmad al-Razihi and Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani are advised they would have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| | | ISN 31|31 || 2013-11-20 || Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid's Board convenes.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> No observers are allowed. The Board recommends that he is no longer too dangerous to release. | ||
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| | | ISN 37|37 || 2014-01-28 || Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi's Board convenes.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> His is the first Guantanamo review of any kind where human rights observers are allowed. Four human rights workers and nine journalists are allowed to watch the first 19 minutes of his review. The Board recommends continued detention at Guantanamo, with another review in six months.<ref name=NYTimes2014-03-12/> | ||
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| | | ISN 131|131 || 2014-01-28 || Salem Ahmad Hadi Bin Kanad is advised he will have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| || 2014-02-11 || | | || 2014-02-11 || Muhammed Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani and Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari. are advised they would have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| | | ISN 232|232 || 2014-02-12 || Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda is advised he will have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| | | ISN 713|713 || 2014-02-26 || Muhammad Murdi Issa Al-Zahrani is advised he will have a PRB convened to review the Guantanamo Review Task Force determination that they were too dangerous to release.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| | | ISN 45|45 || 2014-03-20 || Ali Ahmad al-Razihi's Board convenes.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/><ref name=Reuters2014-03-20/><ref name=Lawfare2014-03-20/><ref name=FirstPost2014-03-20/><ref name=IronDailyNews2104-03-20/><ref name=YahooNews2014-03-20/><ref name=RollingStone2014-03-20/><ref name=AmNy2014-03-20/> | ||
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| | | ISN 128|128 || 2014-04-08 || Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani's Review is scheduled for this date.<ref name=AndyWorthington2014-04-05/> | ||
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| | | ISN 128|128 || 2014-05-28 || Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani's Review Board publishes its recommendation that he should be cleared for release.<ref name=MiamiHerald2014-05-28/> | ||
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| | | ISN 232|232 || 2014-06-04 || Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda's Review is scheduled for this date.<ref name=PrsReviewSecretariat/> | ||
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| | | ISN 552|552 || 2014-07-14 || Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari | ||
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| | | ISN 713|713 || 2014-10-03 || Muhammad Murdi Issa Al-Zahrani | ||
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| | | ISN 535|535 || 2015-02-12 || Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah | ||
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| | | ISN 235|235 || 2015-03-18 || Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh || The PRB published the decision to recommend a clearance to release.<ref name=MiamiHerald2015-03-18/> | ||
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| | | ISN 324|324 || || Mashur Abdullah Muqbil Ahmed Al-Sabri | ||
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| | | ISN 242|242 || 2015-03-18 || Khaled Quasim || The PRB recommended continued detention.<ref name=MiamiHerald2015-03-18/> | ||
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| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article15280844.html | | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article15280844.html | ||
| title = Guantánamo parole board clears another ‘forever prisoner’ | | title = Guantánamo parole board clears another ‘forever prisoner’ | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Miami Herald | ||
| author = | | author = Carol Rosenberg | ||
| date = 2015-03-18 | | date = 2015-03-18 | ||
| page = | | page = | ||
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| url = http://www.amny.com/news/u-s-guantanamo-board-to-review-case-of-dirty-30-bin-laden-bodyguard-1.7450132 | | url = http://www.amny.com/news/u-s-guantanamo-board-to-review-case-of-dirty-30-bin-laden-bodyguard-1.7450132 | ||
| title = U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard | | title = U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = AM NY | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/freedom-by-powerpoint-a-guantanamo-forever-prisoner-seeks-transfer-20140320 | | url = http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/freedom-by-powerpoint-a-guantanamo-forever-prisoner-seeks-transfer-20140320 | ||
| title = Freedom by PowerPoint: A Guantanamo 'Forever Prisoner' Seeks Transfer | | title = Freedom by PowerPoint: A Guantanamo 'Forever Prisoner' Seeks Transfer | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Rolling Stone magazine | ||
| author = John Knefel | | author = John Knefel | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://news.yahoo.com/guantanamo-detainee-yemen-pleads-sent-home-184751315.html | | url = http://news.yahoo.com/guantanamo-detainee-yemen-pleads-sent-home-184751315.html | ||
| title = Guantanamo detainee from Yemen pleads to be sent home | | title = Guantanamo detainee from Yemen pleads to be sent home | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Yahoo News | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/474742/Guantanamo-prisoner-asks-to-go-home-to-Yemen.html?isap=1&nav=5024 | | url = http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/474742/Guantanamo-prisoner-asks-to-go-home-to-Yemen.html?isap=1&nav=5024 | ||
| title = Guantanamo prisoner asks to go home to Yemen | | title = Guantanamo prisoner asks to go home to Yemen | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Iron Mountain Daily News | ||
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| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www.firstpost.com/world/u-s-guantanamo-board-reviews-case-of-dirty-30-bin-laden-bodyguard-1443527.html | | url = http://www.firstpost.com/world/u-s-guantanamo-board-reviews-case-of-dirty-30-bin-laden-bodyguard-1443527.html | ||
| title = U.S. Guantanamo board reviews case of ‘Dirty 30’ bin Laden bodyguard | | title = U.S. Guantanamo board reviews case of ‘Dirty 30’ bin Laden bodyguard | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = First post | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/15/3755883/guantanamos-forever-captives-to.html | | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/15/3755883/guantanamos-forever-captives-to.html | ||
| title = Guantánamo’s forever captives to make pitch for freedom in secret | | title = Guantánamo’s forever captives to make pitch for freedom in secret | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Miami Herald | ||
| author = | | author = Carol Rosenberg | ||
| date = 2013-11-15 | | date = 2013-11-15 | ||
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| url = http://rt.com/usa/guantanamo-review-hearings-boyle-428/ | | url = http://rt.com/usa/guantanamo-review-hearings-boyle-428/ | ||
| title = 71 Gitmo inmates to get parole-style hearings - Pentagon | | title = 71 Gitmo inmates to get parole-style hearings - Pentagon | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Russia Today | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 2013-07-22 | | date = 2013-07-22 | ||
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| url = http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/07/20137218557784533.html | | url = http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/07/20137218557784533.html | ||
| title = Panel to review Guantanamo detainees: A new governmental process will review whether specific detainees should be freed | | title = Panel to review Guantanamo detainees: A new governmental process will review whether specific detainees should be freed | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Al Jazeera | ||
| author = | | author = Jason Leopold | ||
| date = 2013-07-24 | | date = 2013-07-24 | ||
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| url = http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/28/dispatches-opaque-ever-guantanamo | | url = http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/28/dispatches-opaque-ever-guantanamo | ||
| title = Dispatches: Opaque As Ever at Guantanamo | | title = Dispatches: Opaque As Ever at Guantanamo | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Human Rights Watch | ||
| author = | | author = Andrea Prasow | ||
| date = 2014-01-28 | | date = 2014-01-28 | ||
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| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/21/3512527/pentagon-prepares-parole-board.html | | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/21/3512527/pentagon-prepares-parole-board.html | ||
| title = Pentagon prepares review panels for 71 Guantánamo detainees | | title = Pentagon prepares review panels for 71 Guantánamo detainees | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Miami Herald | ||
| author = | | author = Carol Rosenberg | ||
| date = 2013-07-21 | | date = 2013-07-21 | ||
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| url = http://www.prs.mil/ReviewInformation.aspx | | url = http://www.prs.mil/ReviewInformation.aspx | ||
| title = Periodic Review Secretariat: Review Information | | title = Periodic Review Secretariat: Review Information | ||
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| url = http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-hearings-limit-media-ngo-access-21701402?singlePage=true | | url = http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-hearings-limit-media-ngo-access-21701402?singlePage=true | ||
| title = New Guantanamo Hearings Limit Media, NGO Access | | title = New Guantanamo Hearings Limit Media, NGO Access | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Abc News | ||
| author = Ben Fox | | author = Ben Fox | ||
| date = 2014-01-25 | | date = 2014-01-25 | ||
| page = | | page = | ||
| location = | | location = Miami | ||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140206000600/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-hearings-limit-media-ngo-access-21701402?singlePage=true | | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140206000600/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/guantanamo-hearings-limit-media-ngo-access-21701402?singlePage=true | ||
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| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/us/military-board-in-a-first-says-yemeni-should-stay-detained.html?_r=1 | | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/us/military-board-in-a-first-says-yemeni-should-stay-detained.html?_r=1 | ||
| title = Panel Says Yemeni Man Should Stay in Detention | | title = Panel Says Yemeni Man Should Stay in Detention | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = New York Times | ||
| author = Charlie Savage | | author = Charlie Savage | ||
| date = 2014-03-12 | | date = 2014-03-12 | ||
| page = A18 | | page = A18 | ||
| location = | | location = Washington DC | ||
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| url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/20/us-usa-guantanamo-alrazihi-idUSBREA2J0M420140320 | | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/20/us-usa-guantanamo-alrazihi-idUSBREA2J0M420140320 | ||
| title = U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard | | title = U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Reuters | ||
| author = Ian Simpson | | author = Ian Simpson | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www. | | url = http://www.lawfare<ref>Wikipedia has an [[Wikipedia:Lawfare|article about Lawfare]].</ref>blog.com/2014/03/periodic-review-board-hearing-today/ | ||
| title = Periodic Review Board Hearing Today | | title = Periodic Review Board Hearing Today | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Lawfare | ||
| author = Wells Bennett | | author = Wells Bennett | ||
| date = 2014-03-20 | | date = 2014-03-20 | ||
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| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/28/4143820/federal-board-oks-release-of-forever.html | | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/28/4143820/federal-board-oks-release-of-forever.html | ||
| title = Board OKs release of sickly ‘forever prisoner’ who learned yoga at Guantánamo: Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani, 35, of Yemen is cleared for release ‘when practicable’ and says he would prefer going to a third country rather than his homeland | | title = Board OKs release of sickly ‘forever prisoner’ who learned yoga at Guantánamo: Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani, 35, of Yemen is cleared for release ‘when practicable’ and says he would prefer going to a third country rather than his homeland | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Miami Herald | ||
| author = | | author = Carol Rosenberg | ||
| date = 2014-05-28 | | date = 2014-05-28 | ||
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| location = | | location = Guantanamo Bay Naval Base | ||
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The Periodic Review Boards are an "administrative procedure" for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba are safe to release or transfer, or whether they should continue to be held without charge.[1][2][3][4] The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat, which United States President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7, 2011. Although Obama authorized the Secretariat to conduct periodic reviews in early 2011 the first review was not conducted until late 2013. During the second review, on January 28, 2014, that of Abdel Malik al Rahabi, nine reporters and four human rights workers were allowed to observe a video-link to the 19 minute unclassified portion of the hearing.[5] 69 other individuals can expect to have their status reviewed. Almost half of the individuals still at Guantanamo have already been cleared for release or transfer -- some as long ago as 2005, so critics have questioned how meaningful it had been to clear Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid for release. Individuals who have faced charges, become eligible to have their status reviewed by a Periodic Review Board, if the charges they faced are dropped. In 2013 24 new individuals who the Guantanamo Review Task Force had recommended should face charges, had those charges dropped, and became eligible for review, when appeals courts had overturned convictions for "providing material support for terrorism". On July 21, 2013, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that the announcement that the Boards would finally be convened followed a "flurry of emails" to the captives attorneys -- after years of delay.[6] Rosenberg noted that the announcement from Norton C. Joerg, a former officer and senior lawyer with the United States Navy, came at the height of the most widespread Guantanamo hunger strike. Timeline
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- ↑ Andy Worthington. Please Read “Guantánamo Forever,” My Latest Article for Al-Jazeera English - See more at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/04/05/please-read-guantanamo-forever-my-latest-article-for-al-jazeera-english/#sthash.RZgzl9CB.dpuf, 2014-04-05. “The review boards began in November, and have, to date, reviewed just three of the 71 cases they were set up to review. The fourth, reviewing the case of Ghaleb al-Bihani, a Yemeni, takes place on April 8.”
- ↑ Carol Rosenberg. Board OKs release of sickly ‘forever prisoner’ who learned yoga at Guantánamo: Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani, 35, of Yemen is cleared for release ‘when practicable’ and says he would prefer going to a third country rather than his homeland, Miami Herald, 2014-05-28. Retrieved on 2014-06-02. “The Yemeni’s new designation as eligible for release means that of Guantánamo prison’s 154 captives, 43 are now considered indefinite detainees and 78 could leave once the State Department negotiates transfer deals. The rest include three convicted war criminals and other captives either awaiting trial or considered possible tribunal candidates.”