Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif
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Al Sharif chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order
Court order
A court order is an official proclamation by a judge that defines the legal relationships between the parties to a hearing, a trial, an appeal or other court proceedings. Such ruling requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case...
, the Department of Defense published a twelve page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for
Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif
Administrative Review Board,
on
31 October 2005.
The four page memo listed
thirty-one
"primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and
six
"primary factors favor[ing] release or transfer".
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Fahd al Sharif chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
In the Spring of 2006 the Department of Defense published a nineteen page summarized transcript from Fahd al Sharif's first annual Board hearing. It also published an eight page memo, that contained point by point responses he prepared prior to his hearing.
Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memoSummary of Evidence (ARB)
Counter-terrorism analysts prepared a Summary of Evidence memo for the Administrative Review Board hearings of approximately 460 captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba from December 2004 to December 2005.-Release of the memos:...
was prepared for Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif's second annual Administrative Review Board, on 3 October 2006.
The three page memo listed twenty primary factors favoring continued detention and one factor favoring release or transfer.
Al-Shareef v. Bush
A writ of habeas corpusHabeas corpus
is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...
was filed on behalf of Guantanamo captives Fahd Umar Abdulmajid Al Shareef and Hani Saeed Mohammed Banan Al-Kalf Al-Gamdi before US District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts
Richard W. Roberts
-Educational career:-Legal career:Roberts played a number of different roles in the US justice system prior to his appointment as a judge.-Covington & Burling:Roberts was an associate at the large, international law firm Covington & Burling.-Prosecutor:...
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Justice Roberts issued a protective order on their behalf.
closed off Guantanamo captives' access to the US civilian justice system.
Lawyers acting on behalf of Fahd al-Sharif and ten other captives argued that the wording of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006
did not strip the captives of the right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus.
The documents arising from Al-Shareef v. Bush were not among those the Bush administration has published.
On June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court's ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush
Boumediene v. Bush
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 , was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba...
, that the Guantanamo captives were entitled to pursue their habeas corpus petitions in the civilian justice system.
Repatriation
On November 25, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of when captives left Guantanamo.According to that list he was repatriated to Saudi custody on November 9, 2007, with thirteen other men.
The records published from the captives' annual Administrative Reviews show his repatriation was not the outcome of the formal internal review procedures.
The records show his detention was not reviewed in 2007.
At least ten other men in his release group were not repatriated through the formal review procedure.