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NLEC is an abbreviation for No Longer Enemy Combatant, a term the George W. Bush Administration used for prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined they should not have been classified as "enemy combatants".[1]
Thirty-eight detainees were classified as "NLECs".[2] The fifth Denbeaux report, "No-hearing hearings", reported that an additional three Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined that captives should not have been determined to have been enemy combatants, only to have their recommendation overturned.[3]
The Washington Post has published a list of the names of 30 of the 38 individuals who were determined not to have been enemy combatants.[2] None of the detainees who were determined not to have been enemy combatants were released right away. Ten of the detainees who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants were allowed to move to the more comfortable Camp Iguana. Others, such as Sami Al Laithi, remained in solitary confinement.
The delay in the release of some of the detainees was due to considerations of the detainees safety. Under the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture, a country may not send an individual to a country where he may be tortured.
Some of the detainees could not be returned to their home countries, out of fears of retaliation from their fellow citizens, or the governments of their countries. Some, like Al Laithi, were returned to their home countries after the U.S. secured a promise that they would not be punished by their home countries. Others, like five of Uighur detainees in Guantanamo, were released when the U.S. found a third country which would accept them.[4][5]
Three further captives who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, who had been occupants of Camp Iguana since May 2005, were released in Albania in November 2006.[6][7]
See also
References
- ↑ Kathleen T. Rhem. 38 Guantanamo Detainees to Be Freed After Tribunals, American Forces Press Service, March 30, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants", Washington Post
- ↑ Mark Denbeaux et al, No-hearing hearings", November 17 2006
- ↑ Albania takes Guantanamo Uighurs, BBC, May 6 2006
- ↑ Freed from Guantanamo, 5 face danger in Albania, Boston Globe, May 18 2006
- ↑ Albania Agrees To Resettle Three Detainees from Guantanamo, US State Department, November 20 2006
- ↑ Pentagon sends Guantánamo captives to Albania, Miami Herald, November 17 2006