Habib Rahman (detainee)

Habib Rahman 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 907. American intelligence analysts estimate that Rahman was born in 1982, in Mansaira, Pakistan. He was repatriated without charges on October 11, 2006.

Age
The official list of names the DoD released on May 15, 2006 estimated Habib Rahman was born in 1982. But, when he was released, on October 12, 2006, he told reporters that he was twenty years old. Now he is living in United States under the name Gibran Habib Rahman.

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.

Rahman chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Allegations
The allegations Rahman faced during his Tribunal were:

Release and Abuse Claims
Rahman was returned to Afghanistan on October 12, 2006. According to the Associated Press Rahman reported recent abuse, including sleep deprivation. He said his capture was due solely to gun ownership::