{"id":581862,"date":"2010-05-27T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/federal-judge-orders-release-of-yemeni-guantanamo-detainee.php"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:16:05","slug":"federal-judge-orders-release-of-yemeni-guantanamo-detainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581862","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge orders release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontguantanamofree.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"5\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] A judge for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcd.uscourts.gov\/\">US District Court for the District of Columbia<\/a> [official website] on Wednesday ordered the release of Yemeni <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/currentawareness\/guantanamo.php\">Guantanamo Bay<\/a> [JURIST news archive] detainee <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/guantanamo\/detainees\/681-mohammed-mohammed-hassen\">Mohammed Hassen<\/a> [NYT profile]. Hassen had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/05\/26\/1649323\/judge-orders-guantanamo-yemeni.html\">initially detained<\/a> [<em>Miami Herald<\/em> report] in March 2002 following a raid in Faisalabad by Pakistani security forces. He has maintained throughout his detention that he had traveled to Pakistan to study the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/schools\/college\/crcc\/engagement\/resources\/texts\/muslim\/quran\/\">Qur&#8217;an<\/a> [text] at Salafi University and had no knowledge of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/para\/al-qaida.htm\">al Qaeda<\/a> [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] prior to his detention. Hassen is the third detainee captured in this raid to be released. The court opinion remains classified.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling brings the number of Guantanamo detainees who have prevailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=guantanamo+habeas\"><em>habeas corpus<\/em> proceedings<\/a> [JURIST news archive] in federal court to 36. The government has prevailed in only 14 cases. Earlier this month, a federal judge <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/federal-judge-orders-release-of-russian-guantanamo-detainee.php\">ordered the release<\/a> [JURIST report] of Russian Guantanamo Bay detainee <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/guantanamo\/detainees\/702-ravil-mingazov\">Ravil Mingazov<\/a> [NYT profile]. In March, the DC court denied the <em>habeas<\/em> petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/guantanamo\/detainees\/117-muktar-yahya-najee-al-warafi\">Makhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi<\/a> [NYT materials] on its merits, allowing the US government to prolong the detention indefinitely.  In late February, a DC judge ruled that the government can <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/02\/federal-judge-upholds-continued.php\">continue to hold indefinitely<\/a> [JURIST report] two Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainees, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2005cv0280-551\">Fahmi Salem Al-Assani<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2005cv0280-548\">Suleiman Awadh Bin Agil Al-Nahdi<\/a> [orders, PDF] had been cleared for release by the Bush administration two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday ordered the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohammed Hassen [NYT profile]. Hassen had been initially detained [Miami Herald report] in March 2002 following a raid in Faisalabad by Pakistani security forces. He has maintained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}