Parhat

– Terror detentions (Parhat v. Gates, 2008): Wrote opinion that concluded the government improperly classified a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.

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Garland mocked the government's evidence that Parhat was fighting U.S. forces: three pieces of paper that cited identical information.

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In the case that drew comparisons with Lewis Carroll -- that of Huzaifa Parhat, a Uighur from China's oppressed Xinjiang province -- the government lodged a miserable and unprincipled appeal to stop Parhat and his 16 compatriots from settling in the United States, after District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled in October that their continued detention in Guantánamo was unconstitutional.

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As a result, they "held invalid a decision of a Combatant Status Review Tribunal" that Parhat was an "enemy combatant," and "directed the government to release or transfer" him (or to hold a new tribunal "consistent with the Court's opinion").

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Lawyers filed a motion of contempt against Secretary of Defense Robert Gates denouncing his "continued refusal to comply with a final order" by the appeals court to release Parhat, the document said.

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Of the four, Parhat is the only one whose name was known outside Guantánamo.

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The lawyers also demanded that a new court ruling should include "a threat of sanctions" in order to ensure Gates complies with the order to release Parhat.

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Parhat is one of seventeen Chinese Muslims imprisoned at GITMO.

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Parhat is one of seventeen Chinese Muslims imprisoned at GITMO.

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In the months that followed, the cases against all 17 Uighurs crumbled, as the government admitted that it would "serve no purpose" to continue trying to prove that Parhat was an "enemy combatant," and then did the same for his 16 compatriots.

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