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Haji Wazir (Bagram detainee)

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22: 165:, but later corrected itself in a January 2009 legal filing, though public documents redact the location he was listed as truly being detained. They contended that the location of his detainment would not have any effect on his lack of legal rights, which they argue is due to his non-citizen status. 191:, an Afghan reporter, said that during his imprisonment at Bagram from 2007 to 2008, he shared a cell with Wazir for 5 months. During that time, he says that Wazir described being tortured in the first 6 months of his detention. 559: 569: 437: 209:
Wazir reportedly has seven children and ran a foreign currency exchange business in Afghanistan and Dubai. As of February of 2009, he was 50 years old.
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The US government falsely claimed in a motion to dismiss his habeas corpus petition that Wazir was detained in
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ruled that Wazir, unlike non-Afghans held in Bagram, was not entitled to pursue his habeas corpus petition.
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JUSTIA profile on Haji Wazir, et al v. Robert Gates, et al court case
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captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
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Index

United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan
Bagram Theater Internment Facility
extrajudicial detention
habeas corpus
Afghanistan
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
extrajudicial detention
enemy combatant
United States
Bagram Theater internment facility
writ of habeas corpus
Karachi
Pakistan
Afghan Human Rights Organization
Guantanamo
US District Court
Reggie B. Walton
Jawed Ahmad
US District Court Judge
John D. Bates




"USA: Out of sight, out of mind, out of court? The right of Bagram detainees to judicial review"
Amnesty International
Archived
"Overreach at Bagram"

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