 A sally port at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. Captives at Bagram are kept in cells holding dozens of men. Captives being taken from a cell, or returned to the cell, are first locked into the "sally port", one at a time. The Bagram Threater Internment Facility is the most recent name for a controversial American detention facility in Afghanistan. An example of a Sally port, here is the main entrance to Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland. ...
Not a POW camp It is American policy that its Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, the CIA's black sites, and other camps, like the one on Bagram, are not "Prisoner-of-war camps". It is American policy that the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the "global war on terror", are not "Prisoners of War". Rather, they are variously labelled "enemy combatants", "unlawful enemy combatants", or "unprivileged belligerents". Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002 Wikisource has original text related to this article: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism Wikisource has original text related to this article: Statement of Alberto J Mora on interrogation abuse, July 7, 2004 Guantanamo...
The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into CIA prison system. ...
A Prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of persons captured by the enemy in time of war. ...
Extrajudicial punishment is physical punishment without the permission of a court or legal authority. ...
The Global War On Terror is the official Department of Defense title for the United States ongoing campaign against Al-Quaida and other groups since the attacks of 9/11. ...
Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...
An enemy combatant has historically referred to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. ...
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Temporary facility Although the Bagram facility was supposed to be a temporary facility it is an older facility than the Guantanamo Bay camp. And it holds more captives than are held in Guantanamo.
Physical site During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the Soviets built a large military airfield outside Bagram. The airfield included large hangars that fell into disrepair when the Soviets were ousted. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan. ...
When the Americans and their local allies ousted the Taliban American forces took possession of the former Soviet base. The American's didn't need the volume of hangar space, so a detention facility was built inside large unused hangars. The Taliban (Pashto: , students or seekers of knowledge) are a group that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when their leaders were removed from power by American aerial bombardment and Northern Alliance ground forces. ...
Like the first facilities built at Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray the cells were built of wire mesh. However only captives held in solitary confinement have a cell of their own. The other captives share larger open cells with other captives. Camp X-Ray, shown here under construction, was a temporary holding facility for detainees held at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to as the hole (or in British English the block), is a punishment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding guards, chaplains and doctors. ...
According to some accounts captives were provided with shared buckets for their feces and urine, and did not have access to running water.
According to some accounts, although captives share these cells with dozens of other captives they are not allowed to speak with one another, or even to look at one another.
Torture and prisoner abuse Two captives are known to have been beaten to death by GIs manning the facility, in December 2002.
Captives who were confined to both Bagram and Guantanamo have recounteded that, while in Bagram, they were wanrd that if they didn't cooperate more fully, they would be sent to a worse site, in Cuba. However, all the captives whose comparison of the two facilities agree that conditions in Bagram were not only more primitive, but the Bagram guards there were less restrained, and the Bagram interrogators were more brutal.
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In 2005, a 2,000-page U.S. Army report was obtained by the New York Times concerning the homicides of two unarmed civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. armed forces in 2002 at the Bagram Collection Point. ...
High profile escapes When GIs who were implicated in the December 2002 homicides were about to face courts martial there was an escape, and at least one of the prosecution's witnesses escaped, and was thus unable to testify. A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ...
Rasul v. Bush There was a change in the Bush administration's detainee plans following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. Rasul v. Bush confirmed that captives in Guantanamo did have the right to access US courts. Rasul v. Bush confirmed that the Executive Branch did not have the authoority, under the United States Constitution, to suspend the right for Guantanamo captives to submit writes of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States...
Holding Court membership Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day OConnor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer Case opinions Majority by: Stevens Joined by: OConnor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer Concurrence by: Kennedy Dissent by: Scalia Joined by: Rehnquist...
The executive is the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law and running the day-to-day affairs of the government or state. ...
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution. ...
In common law, habeas corpus (/heɪbiəs kɔɹpəs/) (Latin: [We command that] you have the body) is the name of a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. ...
Following the ruling the Department of Defense stopped transferring captives to Guantanamo.
Another consequence of the Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush was the authorization of the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants to convene Combatant Status Review Tribunals. This is the trailer where the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held. ...
Enemy Combatant Review Board The DoD had to convene Combatant Status Review Tribunals for every captive in Guantanamo. The Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the captives Tribunals all re-iterated that the Tribunals were merely reviewing the informaiton that had lead to the catpive initially being classified as an "enemy combatant" during earlier determinations.
The combatant status of captives taken in other conflicts was determined through Army Regulation 190-8 Tribunals. Army Regulation 190-8 laid out the rules through which officers of the United States Armed Forces complied with the USA's obligations under the Geneva Conventions to convene a "competent tribunal" to determine the status for every captive whose status was in doubt. The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ...
Development of the Geneva Conventions from 1864 to 1949. ...
Competent Tribunal is a term used article five of the third Geneva Convention, which states: Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall...
An article by Eliza Griswold, published in the The New Republic, stated that the other captives the USA holds might have an Enemy Combatant Review Board convened:[1] For other uses, see the New Republic disambiguation page. ...
"But, for all these changes, the growing detainee population still lives in overcrowded cages. Prisoners don't even have the limited access to lawyers available to prisoners in Guantánamo. Nor do they have the right to Combatant Status Review Tribunals, which Guantánamo detainees won in the 2004 Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. Instead, if a combat commander chooses, he can convene an Enemy Combatant Review Board (ecrb), at which the detainee has no right to a personal advocate, no chance to speak in his own defense, and no opportunity to review the evidence against him. The detainee isn't even allowed to attend. And, thanks to such limited access to justice, many former detainees say they have no idea why they were either detained or released.
References - ^ Eliza Griswold. "The other Guantánamo. Black Hole", The New Republic, May 2, 2007. Retrieved on May 5.
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