Wazir (Bagram detainee, 2002)

Haji Wazir is a citizen of Afghanistan who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, and held since then in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater internment facility.^[1] He is notable because he is one of the very few detainees in Bagram who has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf.^[2][3]

According to Lal Gul, chairman of the Afghan Human Rights Organization, Haji Wazir: "is not a commander, not a member of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. He is a businessman."^[2]

Wazir is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.^[4]

On June 29, 2009 US District Court Judge John D. Bates ruled that Wazir, unlike non-Afghans held in Bagram, was not entitled to pursue his habeas corpus petition.^[5] The Guardian reported that Wazir was apprehended in the United Arab Emirates.

References

1. ↑ "Overreach at Bagram". Washington Post. 2009-01-07. p. A14. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
2. 1 2 Del Quentin Wilber (2008-06-29). "In Courts, Afghanistan Air Base May Become Next Guantanamo". Washington Post. p. A14. Retrieved 2008-09-28. 
3. ↑ Lyle Denniston (2009-01-07). "Analysis: Some overseas extension of habeas?". Scotusblog. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved 2008-09-28. 
4. ↑ Reggie B. Walton (January 31, 2007). "Gherebi, et al. v. Bush" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. Retrieved May 19, 2007. 
5. ↑ Nedra Pickler (2009-06-29). "Judge denies Afghan's challenge to detention". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-06-29.