Federal Appeals Court Overturns Enemy Combatant Classification for Guantanamo Detainee

Federal Appeals Court Overturns Enemy Combatant Classification for Guantanamo Detainee

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.

In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, undermining the basis for his more than six years in detention.

The appeals court directed the U.S. military to release Parhat, to transfer him or to hold a new proceeding promptly in light of the appeals court's ruling.

The court also specified that Parhat could petition a federal judge seeking his immediate release in light of the Supreme Court's June 12 decision giving that right to all the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

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I agree with the court's ruling on this case. The man never fought against the US, nor was there any evidence he intended to.

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