Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi

Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi is a citizen of Yemen best known for the time he spent in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Al Jayfi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 183.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Al Jayfi was born on September 1, 1979, in Sada, Yemen.
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
Issam Hamid Ali Bin Al Jayfi's
Combatant Status Review Tribunal,
on 12 January 2005.
The memo listed the following allegations against him:
Transcript
Al Jayfi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Administrative Review Board hearing
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 weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't 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.
Summary of Evidence memo
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for
Issam Hamid Ali Bin Al Jayfi's
Administrative Review Board,
on 11 July 2005.
The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.
The following primary factors favor continued detention
The following primary factors favor release or transfer
Board recommendations
In early September 2007 the Department of Defense released two heavily redacted memos, from his Board, to Gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official.
The Board's recommendation was unanimous
The Board's recommendation was redacted.
England authorized his transfer on October 22, 2005.
Repatriation
Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, demanded the release of the remaining Yemenis held in Guantanamo on December 23, 2006.
The Yemen Observer identified Mohammed Ahmed al-Asadi, Esam Hamid al-Jaefi and Ali Hussain al-Tais as three of the six Yemeni who had been repatriated the previous week.
Al Asadi, the first of the six men to be released, on December 29, 2006, was asked to sign an undertaking promising to refrain from armed activity.
On January 7, 2007 the Yemen Times identified two of the three remaining men as
Tawfiq Al-Murwai and Muhassen Al-Asskari.
Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the men would be released as soon as Yemeni authorities had cleared them.
Habeas corpus submissions
Al Jayfi 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.

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