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Guantanamo captive's uniforms

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First 20 Guantanamo captives wearing orange uniforms shortly after their arrival on January 11th, 2002.
First 20 Guantanamo captives wearing orange uniforms shortly after their arrival on January 11th, 2002.

Captives held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp are typically issued one of two uniforms, either a white jumpsuit if the prisoner has been labelled "compliant", or an orange jumpsuit if the prisoner has been labelled "non-compliant".<ref name=CbC20050704> Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Bbc29959497> Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=NationalGeographicApril2005> {{

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When the prisoners faced Combatant Status Review Tribunals or Administrative Review Board hearings, they were frequently asked to explain their uniforms to the overseeing officer, and they were considered a point in favour of further detaining or releasing the prisoner.

Once insurgents began capturing foreigners in Iraq, there was a tendency to dress them in the same orange jumpsuits as their own forces were being dressed in when delivered to Guantanamo Bay - considered by some to be a sign of the insurgents "equating" the captures.<ref>http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/articles/SBLM06-1/rejan.pdf</ref>

On March 16, 2006 Secretary of State legal adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a digital press conference in which he dismissed the view that all the prisoners were being held in orange jumpsuits, stating "Very few people wear orange jump suits anymore, and yet that is the image that is being left with people all around the world, that everybody in Guantanamo is wearing an orange jump suit..."<ref>{{

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A number of protests against the prison camp have seen activists dress in the iconic orange jumpsuits to draw attention to the issue.<ref>{{

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}}</ref> In May 2006, a Turkish judge barred Loai al-Saqa, a suspected terrorist, from being brought into his own trial, because he chose to wear an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, demonstrative of his solidarity with those in Guantanamo, and his intentions to protest or resist legal authority.<ref name=Bbc20060522> Template:Cite news</ref>

Guantanamo captives whose uniforms were an issue

Guantanamo captives whose uniforms were an issue
isn name notes
8 Abdullah Gulam Rasoul
22 Sahkhrukh Hamiduva
  • Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Tribunal asked him to explain why he was wore an orange uniform.<ref name=CsrtSakhrukhHamiduva> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 70-80</ref>
  • Sahkhrukh Hamiduva attributed his orange uniform to the severity of the allegations he faced.<ref name=CsrtSakhrukhHamiduva/>
  • Sahkhrukh Hamiduva told his Tribunal that he had always told his interrogators the truth.<ref name=CsrtSakhrukhHamiduva/>
84 Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev
154 Mazin Salih Musaid Al Awfi
270 Mosa Zi Zemmori
  • Wore a Khaki uniform to his Tribunal.<ref name=CsrtMoazZiZemmori>

Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mosa Zi Zemmori's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 27</ref>

  • Couldn't explain for his Tribunal the significance of his Khaki uniform.<ref name=CsrtMoazZiZemmori/>
320 Hozaifa Parhat
A: That means level one.
Q: Is that for good behavior or for some other reason?
A: Yes, I believe so. If you do not have good behavior they will not put you in level one.
489
  • Wore an orange uniform to his Tribunal.
Q. You seem extremely cooperative; I just wonder why you are still wearing an orange uniform as oppose to a tan or white one?
A. I was in psyche ward, so, because of my psych problems, I used to hurt myself, cut myself, and bang my head. So, it's been like this for the last two or three months now. They dropped the levels. The Level 2 they wear orange. In level one, they give them the ten or white colors. And now, I'm level 2, and hopefully in eighteen days I will be level 1, so I'm going to change it.
530 Dawd Gul
"The Detainee asked the Tribunal to look at his orange clothes. The Detainee stated mat the Tribunal can turn those black. The Detainee stated that it is all in the Tribunal's hands."
551 Fouad Mahoud Hasan Al Rabia
555 Abdul Majid Muhammed
  • Wore white to his Tribunal.<ref name=CsrtAbdulMajidMuhammed>

Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Majid Muhammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 107-121</ref>

  • Abdul Majid Muhammed is the only Christian captive in Guantanamo.<ref name=CsrtAbdulMajidMuhammed/> He is an Iranian drug-addict who was forced to travel to Afghanistan on a drug-buy to pay off a drug-debt.
  • Testified that his life was at stake even in camp 4, the camp for compliant captives.<ref name=CsrtAbdulMajidMuhammed/>
  • Showed recent scars which he claimed were due to to a being jumped, in the dark, by four or five other captives wearing white uniforms.<ref name=CsrtAbdulMajidMuhammed/>
651 Usama Hassan Ahmed Abu Kabir
679 Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar

<ref name=CsrtMohmmadAhmadAliTahar> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar's first Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 100-116</ref>

743 Hafez Qari Mohamed Saad Iqbal Madni
Q: You are very cooperative, very truthful, you seem to want to make amends and I've met many individuals doing my job here and I notice that you are wearing an orange uniform. Why is that?
A: I don't know.
Q: You don't know that there are other colors or you don't know why you are still in orange?
A : I know about the other colors, I think I am still in this color of uniform, because once I tried to commit suicide after being here 191 days.
928 Khi Ali Gul
  • Khi Ali Gul's Tribunal asked him to explain why he was wore an orange uniform.<ref name=CsrtKhiAliGul>

Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Khi Ali Gul's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 56</ref>

  • Khi Ali Gul said that in general captives who were non-compliant were issued the orange uniforms, but he didn't understand why he had to wear one.<ref name=CsrtKhiAliGul/>
939 Mammar Ameur
  • Wore white to his Tribunal.<ref name=CsrtMammarAmeur> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mammar Ameur's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 61-80</ref>
  • Asked his Tribunal why he, a compliant captive, wearing white, had not been allowed pen and paper, to prepare notes on the allegations he faced, when other less compliant captives had been allowed pen and paper.<ref name=CsrtMammarAmeur/>
987 Haji Ghalib
1002 Abdul Matin
  • Abdul Matin asked his Tribunal why he had to wear an orange uniform, when he was an innocent man, while the Taliban interrogator who tortured him was in camp four, the camp for compliant captives, where he was allowed to wear a white uniform.<ref name=CsrtAbdulMatin> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Matin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 23-50</ref>
1119 Hamidullah
  • Hamidullah's Tribunal asked him to explain why he was wore an orange uniform.<ref name=CsrtHamidullah1119> Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hamidullah'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 97-98</ref>
  • Hamidullah explained that he had been wearing a white uniform until recently, but it was stripped from him when he responded to a guy who had yelled at him.<ref name=CsrtHamidullah1119/>
  • Hamidullah explained that the camp rules were very strict, and it was hard to live with them, when you were an innocent man, wrongfully accused.<ref name=CsrtHamidullah1119/>

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