US government term for an unregistered and unnamed person in detention
Ghost detainee is a term used in the executive branch of the United States government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous.[1] Such uses arose as the Bush administration initiated the War on Terror following the 9/11 attacks of 2001 in the United States. As documented in the 2004 Taguba Report, it was used in the same manner by United States officials and contractors of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003–2004.[1]
^ abThe "Taguba Report" On Treatment Of Abu Ghraib Prisoners In Iraq: ARTICLE 15-6 INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE, May 2004, Findlaw
Ghostdetainee is a term used in the executive branch of the United States government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity...
provisions preventing detainees from using habeas corpus petitions outside the newly authorized system of military tribunals. Ghostdetainees are extrajudicial...
Supporters believe she was held captive at Bagram Air Force Base as a ghostdetainee, an allegation the U.S. government denies. During the second day in...
Rahman Rashul, nicknamed Triple-X by his American guards, was the first ghostdetainee to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities. Captured by Kurdish...
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been held in Guantanamo are not present on either official list. A ghostdetainee originally known only as Triple X was not assigned an ISN because his...
gun" that proved a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Ghul then became a ghostdetainee, his very existence was unacknowledged. In June 2007, he was one of...
published in redacted form in 2008. In April 2008, Murat Kurnaz, a former detainee released without charges and repatriated to Germany, published the English...
report, "Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention", contains a detailed description of a secret CIA prison from a Palestinian former detainee who...
Torturing Democracy (2008 film) Jan Baz Mohammed al-Qahtani – Guantanamo detainee discussed in the film Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner...
of those incidents of self-harm were attempts by detainees to hang themselves. Twenty-three detainees participated in a mass-suicide attempt from August...
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overlap, but adds itself to the U.S.-detained 100 ghostdetainees. A number of the alleged detainees listed above were transferred to the U.S.-run Guantanamo...
Supreme Court. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), the Supreme Court ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability...
up to continuously tape him. Tapes were also made of another early CIA detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who arrived in October. The tapes were made from...
Retrieved July 3, 2022. AFP (August 12, 2009). "Court upholds CIA contractor's detainee abuse conviction". Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved...
to his mosque in Milan for noon prayers, thus becoming an effective ghostdetainee. He was later transported to a prison in Egypt where, he states, he...
of 'Ghost Prisoners' Possibly in CIA Custody". 30 November 2005. Retrieved 18 December 2005. "U.S. Holding at Least Twenty-Six "GhostDetainees"". December...
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tribunal of each detainee. Wasiq's memo accused him of the following: a The detainee is associated with al Qaida and the Taliban. The detainee in a letter...
memo was read to Rashidi stated: Detainee was extremely verbally belligerent towards both myself and translator. Detainee was making accusations of the US...
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In addition to the abuse, the report cited at least eight cases of ghostdetainees, or inmates hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross...
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