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August 26, 2014, New York, NY. The International Justice Network (IJN) is delighted to announce that two of its clients,Fadi al-Maqaleh and Amin al-Bakri, have been released from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, were they had been imprisoned without charge for over a decade. On the evening of August 25, 2014, the U.S. government transferred the two Yemeni nationals to the custody and control of the Yemeni government. The transfer is the first time that a detainee has been transferred from U.S. military custody to Yemen since 2010.
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New York, NY - On June 4, 2012, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on the growing alarm among Afghans over the unlawful implementation of an administrative detention regime by the Afghan government patterned on US detention operations commonly associated with Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
What is far less commonly known is that the US has been indefinitely detaining prisoners without charge or trial since 2002 in Afghanistan. Today at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, the US has approximately 3,100+ Afghan prisoners and 50+ non-Afghan prisoners in its sole custody.
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New York, NY - On May 30, 2012, the New York Times reported on the de facto veto power exercised by the US military over the prospective release of any prisoner transferred from US custody at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, to the custody of the Afghan government. As the article explains, prisoners transferred to Afghan custody are either being tried in specialized courts (that do not have the power to order their release), or else will continue to be indefinitely detained at the behest of the US government.
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May 23, 2012, New York, NY. -- The International Justice Network (IJN) and coalition partners expressed grave concerns today over the adoption of an administrative detention regime in Afghanistan that has been developed at the behest of the US government. By design, very little information has been made publicly available about the details of the new detention regime -- which is already being implemented in secret by the Afghan government, under US supervision.
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New York, NY - On April 9, 2012, the Washington Post reported on the predicament of non-Afghans imprisoned by the US at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, without charge or trial.
Little to nothing is publicly known about the non-Afghan prisoners at Bagram. The US government refuses to disclose how many non-Afghans it is holding there, how many it forcibly rendered there from outside Afghanistan, and how many remain imprisoned despite being cleared for release by the US military.
The April 9 Post article focuses on two particular Yemeni prisoners: Fadi al-Maqaleh and Amin al-Bakri. The US military has cleared each for release multiple times. And the Yemeni government has complied with all of the conditions of the US government for their repatriation or resettlement. Nonetheless, both men continue to languish at Bagram.
IJN and co-counsel represent Mssrs. al-Maqaleh and al-Bakri in pending habeas corpus litigation before the District Court for the District of Columbia. You can read more about them here: http://ijnetwork.org/clients
Read the April 9 Washington Post article here:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/yemeni-officials-offer-guarantees-for-repatriation-of-detainees/2012/04/09/gIQAXzS56S_story.html |
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