Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi

Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Hawsawi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 368.
American intelligence analysts estimate that Hawsawi was born in 1975, in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.
Inconsistent identification
Hawsawi was identified inconsistently on official Department of Defense documents:
*He was identified as Uhmran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi on the Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 30 September 2004.
*He was identified as Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi on the Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board, on 12 April 2006, and on six official lists of the captives' names.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.
Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.
Summary of Evidence memo
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Uhmran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 30 September 2004.
Administrative Review Board hearings
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards were not authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they were not authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".
They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat—or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.
First annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for
Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi's first annual
Administrative Review Board,
on
3 December 2004.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The factors for and against continuing to detain Hawsawi were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3, 2006.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
Transcript
Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi participated in his Board hearing.
The Department of Defense released a 10 page summarized transcript from his Board hearing on March 3, 2006.
Second annual Administrative Review Board
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for
Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi's second annual
Administrative Review Board,
on 12 April 2006.
Historian Andy Worthington, author of the book "The Guantanamo Files", wrote:

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