Comments on: An Empty Trial at Guantánamo

By: Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantanamo Legacy | STATESMAN SENTINEL

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:44:37 +0000

[...] and, crucially, judges in the only two full trials that ever took place (those of Salim Hamdan and Ali Hamza al-Bahlul), as well as the judge in the case of Mohamed Jawad (released in August 2009), rejected the supposed crime, “each ruling that the [...]

By: After Recent Ruling in the Case of Bin Laden’s Cook, Guantánamo Should Close by July 2012 « Eurasia Review

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:11:09 +0000

[...] al-Qaeda who produced a propaganda video for the organization, and is serving a life sentence after a one-sided trial in October 2008, in which he refused to mount a [...]

By: Gvantanamo aizspogulija « socialismslv

Gvantanamo aizspogulija « socialismslv — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:42:01 +0000

[...] only other case under Bush — the week before the presidential election in November 2008 — was Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Yemeni who had made a propaganda video for al-Qaida, which he admitted to. Al-Bahlul refused to [...]

By: LIST OF REMAINING PRISONERS IN GUANTANAMO | SHOAH

LIST OF REMAINING PRISONERS IN GUANTANAMO | SHOAH — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:09:16 +0000

[...] other man, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, is serving a life sentence in isolation after being convicted in a one-sided trial by Military Commission in November 2008, in which he refused to mount a defense, and another — [...]

By: Two More Guantánamo Prisoners Released: To Kuwait And Belgium by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:18:37 +0000

[...] to 222. This figure includes one man, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who is serving a life sentence after a one-sided trial by Military Commission last November (which is currently being appealed — PDF), and does not [...]

By: Dwight Van Winkle

Dwight Van Winkle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:58:41 +0000

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“This appeared to address the ethical dilemmas faced by Fleener and Kuebler, but as Flynn noted, “there were reasons to be skeptical, to suspect that the provision wasn’t as clear as it seemed: The ‘paragraph (3)’ it referred to was a list of caveats that allowed self-representation to be revoked if the defendant didn’t behave to the presiding officer’s liking. So what would happen if a man’s idea of representing himself was to boycott his trial? Would a lawyer be forced on him then? That wasn’t clear at all.”
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This paragraph, and the article, do not explain why the judge didn’t allow the defendant to defend himself in the first place, under the 2006 rule. Based on your article, this was not a situation where “a man’s idea of representing himself was to boycott his trial.”

By: Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:04:44 +0000

[...] is already locked up for life — in a cell on his own somewhere in Guantánamo — after his disturbingly one-sided trial in [...]

By: Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1) « Muslim in Suffer

Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1) « Muslim in Suffer — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:27:40 +0000

[...] Military Commissions, Controversy still plagues Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, An Empty Trial at Guantánamo 040 Al Mudafari, Abdel Qadir (Yemen) Website Extras 3 041 Ahmad, Majid (Yemen) Website Extras 3 042 [...]

By: Second Guantanamo detainee goes on empty trial before military commission « The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:56:12 +0000

[...] background – as usual – here. Washington Post article [...]