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Convicted in 2008 of conspiring with al-Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism, and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, all convictions except for conspiracy were overturned in 2013. Conspiracy conviction was upheld in 2016. 2: Mohammed Farik Bin Amin: Zubair: 2006: Malaysia
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, [note 1] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants ...
The Guantanamo military commissions were established by President George W. Bush through a military order on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. [1] To date, there have been a total of eight convictions in the military commissions, six through plea agreements.
According to UN experts, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is a site of "unparalleled notoriety" and has been condemned as a site of "unrelenting human rights violations." The facility has been holding prisoners for over 20 years. [1] A document released by the Amnesty International reported ongoing and historic human rights ...
A military tribunal or commission is most usually used to refer to a court that asserts jurisdiction over persons who are members of an enemy army, are held in military custody, and are accused of a violation of the laws of war. In contrast, courts-martial generally take jurisdiction over only members of their own military.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions ratified by the U.S.
Overview. The ICC has publicly indicted 57 people. Proceedings against 25 are ongoing: 20 are at large as fugitives and five are on trial. Proceedings against 32 have been completed: two are serving sentences, seven have finished sentences, four have been acquitted, seven have had the charges against them dismissed, four have had the charges against them withdrawn, and eight have died before ...
Ibrahim Bin Shakaran. The Defense Intelligence Agency asserted Ibrahim Bin Shakaran had "returned to terrorism". The DIA reported: In September 2007 he was convicted in a Moroccan court for recruiting fighters for Al Qaida in Iraq in 2005. [22] Allegedly he was working to create an al Qaida in the Lands of the Maghreb.