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 The Periodic Review Boards are an "administrative procedure" for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba are safe to release or transfer, or whether they should continue to be held without charge.[1][2][3][4] The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat, which United States President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7, 2011. Although Obama authorized the Secretariat to conduct periodic reviews in early 2011 the first review was not conducted until late 2013. During the second review, on January 28, 2014, that of Abdel Malik al Rahabi, nine reporters and four human rights workers were allowed to observe a video-link to the 19 minute unclassified portion of the hearing.[5] 69 other individuals can expect to have their status reviewed. Almost half of the individuals still at Guantanamo have already been cleared for release or transfer -- some as long ago as 2005, so critics have questioned how meaningful it had been to clear Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid for release. Individuals who have faced charges, become eligible to have their status reviewed by a Periodic Review Board, if the charges they faced are dropped. In 2013 24 new individuals who the Guantanamo Review Task Force had recommended should face charges, had those charges dropped, and became eligible for review, when appeals courts had overturned convictions for "providing material support for terrorism". On July 21, 2013, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that the announcement that the Boards would finally be convened followed a "flurry of emails" to the captives attorneys -- after years of delay.[6] Rosenberg noted that the announcement from Norton C. Joerg, a former officer and senior lawyer with the United States Navy, came at the height of the most widespread Guantanamo hunger strike. Timeline
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Carol Rosenberg. Guantánamo’s forever captives to make pitch for freedom in secret, Miami Herald, 2013-11-15. Retrieved on 2014-02-02. “President Barack Obama ordered his administration to set up the so-called Periodic Review Boards March 7, 2011. In July, Defense Department officials said the boards would review the files of 71 Guantánamo prisoners’ cases — 46 so-called “indefinite detainees” and 25 men once considered candidates for war crimes trials.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 71 Gitmo inmates to get parole-style hearings - Pentagon, Russia Today, 2013-07-22. “The messages informed the lawyers that the government has finally started preparations to hold the so-called Periodic Review Boards, which were ordered by President Barack Obama in March 2011. It was not specified when the panels will take place or which detainees will see their cases reviewed first.”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jason Leopold. Panel to review Guantanamo detainees: A new governmental process will review whether specific detainees should be freed, Al Jazeera, 2013-07-24. “Two years after President Obama signed an executive order establishing a parole board of sorts to review whether any of Guantanamo's 48 "indefinite detainees" can be released, the panel is finally getting to work, with an eye towards reducing the population, Al Jazeera has learned.”
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ben Fox. New Guantanamo Hearings Limit Media, NGO Access, Abc News, 2014-01-25. “Some prisoners at Guantanamo are getting an opportunity to plead for their release, but journalists and observers from human rights groups won't get to hear them in what critics say is a break from past practice at the U.S. base in Cuba.”
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Andrea Prasow. Dispatches: Opaque As Ever at Guantanamo, Human Rights Watch, 2014-01-28. “Nineteen minutes. That’s how long the review hearing for a Guantanamo detainee lasted this morning. Or, to be more exact, that’s as much of the proceeding as nine reporters and four representatives from nongovernmental organizations were permitted to observe, via video feed, from a secure conference room in Arlington, Virginia.”
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Carol Rosenberg. Pentagon prepares review panels for 71 Guantánamo detainees, Miami Herald, 2013-07-21. Retrieved on 2014-02-03. “The disclosure followed a flurry of emails sent after 10 p.m. Friday by Pentagon bureaucrats notifying attorneys for some of the 71 captives that preparations were underway to hold the so-called Periodic Review Boards ordered by President Barack Obama years ago.”
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 Periodic Review Secretariat: Review Information, Periodic Review Secretariat. mirror
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Charlie Savage. Panel Says Yemeni Man Should Stay in Detention, New York Times, 2014-03-12, p. A18. Retrieved on 2014-02-13. “A parole-style panel at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has decided to recommend that the military continue to hold a Yemeni man in indefinite wartime detention without trial, according to a military document. The decision is the first of its kind for the Obama administration’s new Periodic Review Board system.”
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ian Simpson. U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard, Reuters, 2014-03-20. “A suspected Osama bin Laden bodyguard held at Guantanamo Bay military prison for 12 years is due to face a U.S. national security board on Thursday that will weigh whether he should remain jailed there.”
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Wells Bennett. Periodic Review Board Hearing Today, Lawfare, 2014-03-20. “Today an interagency review panel will hear, by video hookup, the case of Guantanamo detainee Ali Ahmad al-Razihi. The issue is whether the Yemeni’s further detention is necessary to protect a continuing, significant security threat to the United States.”
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 U.S. Guantanamo board reviews case of ‘Dirty 30’ bin Laden bodyguard, First post, 2014-03-20. “Razihi's hearing before the Periodic Review Board was to re-examine whether he should continue to be held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military prison in Cuba, or be transferred, possibly home to Yemen.”
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Guantanamo prisoner asks to go home to Yemen, Iron Mountain Daily News, 2014-03-20. “The review board, with offices near the Pentagon, is part of President Barack Obama's effort to close the prison. Made up of representatives from six U.S. government agencies, the board now must decide if al-Razihi poses any lingering threat to the United States, a process that could take weeks.”
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Guantanamo detainee from Yemen pleads to be sent home, Yahoo News, 2014-03-20. “With a thick beard and gray prison garb, 34-year-old Ali Ahmed Mohammed al-Rahizi was presented to the panel reviewing his case as "possibly having served as a guard" for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.”
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 John Knefel. Freedom by PowerPoint: A Guantanamo 'Forever Prisoner' Seeks Transfer, Rolling Stone magazine, 2014-03-20. “The personal representatives submitted a PowerPoint business plan to show that Razihi intended to live a peaceful civilian life in Yemen.”
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 U.S. Guantanamo board to review case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard, AM NY, 2014-03-20. “The hearing is the third by the review board, designed to ease the eventual closing of the prison. About 70 of the 154 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay cannot be prosecuted for various reasons but are considered too dangerous to release.”
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Andy Worthington. Please Read “Guantánamo Forever,” My Latest Article for Al-Jazeera English - See more at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/04/05/please-read-guantanamo-forever-my-latest-article-for-al-jazeera-english/#sthash.RZgzl9CB.dpuf, 2014-04-05. “The review boards began in November, and have, to date, reviewed just three of the 71 cases they were set up to review. The fourth, reviewing the case of Ghaleb al-Bihani, a Yemeni, takes place on April 8.”
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Carol Rosenberg. Board OKs release of sickly ‘forever prisoner’ who learned yoga at Guantánamo: Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani, 35, of Yemen is cleared for release ‘when practicable’ and says he would prefer going to a third country rather than his homeland, Miami Herald, 2014-05-28. Retrieved on 2014-06-02. “The Yemeni’s new designation as eligible for release means that of Guantánamo prison’s 154 captives, 43 are now considered indefinite detainees and 78 could leave once the State Department negotiates transfer deals. The rest include three convicted war criminals and other captives either awaiting trial or considered possible tribunal candidates.”
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Carol Rosenberg. Guantánamo parole board clears another ‘forever prisoner’, Miami Herald, 2015-03-18. Retrieved on 2015-01. “Board members from the Departments of Defense, Justice, State, Homeland Security as well as the National Intelligence directorate cited as a reason for his release a “lack of indications that the detainee harbors anti-American sentiments, extremist beliefs or intention to reengage” after 13 years in U.S. military custody.”