 "Non-compliant" captives wearing orange uniforms held in Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray in 2004 Detainees 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 detainee has been labelled "non-compliant".[1][2][3] When the detainees face 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.[4][dead link] 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..."[5] A number of protests against the prison camp have seen activists dress in the iconic orange jumpsuits to draw attention to the issue.[6][7][8] 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.[9] | | Two detainees in white "uniforms" stand in the doorway of their bay in Camp 4. To a certain extent, a detainee's level is determined by where he is housed, as well. Most Level 1 detainees are afforded extra privileges in Camp 4. | Detainees walk in an exercise yard in Camp 4, where they live in 10-man bays with nearly all-day access to the yard and other recreational privileges. | Detainees sit around the exercise yard in Camp 4, the medium security facility within Camp Delta at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In Camp 4, highly compliant detainees live in a communal setting and have extensive access to recreation. | [edit] McClatchy report On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a package of articles about Guantanamo. In a profile of Zia Khalid Najib they quoted Abdul Jabar Sabit, Attorney General of Afghanistan.[10] According to their report "...he was struck that detainees were classified into groups, marked in descending order from orange to white garb, by how well they behaved and not by whether they were suspected of terrorist or anti-American activities." "This division did not have anything to do with the crimes attributed to them. Only their behavior in the prison was taken into account." According to the McClatchy package some of the detainees with the most meaningful ties to terrorism had been released early, because they were compliant with the camp rules, while low-level or innocent men remained in detention because they had personality clashes with their guards.[10] [edit] Guantanamo detainees whose uniforms were an issue Guantanamo captives whose uniforms were an issue | isn | name | notes | | 8 | Abdullah Gulam Rasoul | - Wore an orange uniform to his Administrative Review Board hearing.[11]
- Explained to his Tribunal that he hadn't been assigned an orange uniform because he had done anything wrong. He had been assigned an orange uniform because he had requested being allowed to take a shower every day, instead of once a week.[11]
| | 22 | Sahkhrukh Hamiduva | - Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Tribunal asked him to explain why he was wore an orange uniform.[12]
- Sahkhrukh Hamiduva attributed his orange uniform to the severity of the allegations he faced.[12]
- Sahkhrukh Hamiduva told his Tribunal that he had always told his interrogators the truth.[12]
| | 84 | Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev | - Wore a white uniform to his Tribunal.[13]
- Couldn't explain to his Tribunal why he was wearing white, not orange.[13]
| | 154 | Mazin Salih Musaid Al Awfi | - Wore white to his Tribunal.[14]
- Cited his white uniform as proof of his cooperation.[14]
| | 270 | Mosa Zi Zemmori | - Wore a Khaki uniform to his Tribunal.[15]
- Couldn't explain for his Tribunal the significance of his Khaki uniform.[15]
| | 320 | Hozaifa Parhat | - Wore a beige uniform to his Tribunal.[16]
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| 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.
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| 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 | - Gul's transcript records that Gul drew the attention of his Tribunal to his orange uniform[17]:
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| "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 | - Wore an orange uniform to his Tribunal.[18]
- Told his Tribunal that his orange uniform was not due to bad behavior.[18]
- Told his Tribunal that he had worn a white uniform in 2003, when a computerized voice stress analysis had proved he had been telling the truth.[18]
| | 555 | Abdul Majid Muhammed | - Wore white to his Tribunal.[19]
- Abdul Majid Muhammed is the only Christian captive in Guantanamo.[19] 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 detainees.[19]
- Showed recent scars which he claimed were due to being jumped, in the dark, by four or five other detainees wearing white uniforms.[19]
| | 651 | Usama Hassan Ahmed Abu Kabir | - Wore a "white gown" to his Tribunal.[20]
- Said he had been wearing white for over a year.[20]
- Cited his white gown as proof of his compliance.[20]
| | 679 | Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar | [21] | | 743 | Hafez Qari Mohamed Saad Iqbal Madni | - Wore an orange uniform to this Tribunal.[22]
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| 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.[23]
- Khi Ali Gul said that in general detainees who were non-compliant were issued the orange uniforms, but he didn't understand why he had to wear one.[23]
| | 939 | Mammar Ameur | - Wore white to his Tribunal.[24]
- Asked his Tribunal why he, a compliant detainee, wearing white, had not been allowed pen and paper, to prepare notes on the allegations he faced, when other less compliant detainees had been allowed pen and paper.[24]
| | 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 detainees, where he was allowed to wear a white uniform.[25]
| | 1119 | Hamidullah | - Hamidullah's Tribunal asked him to explain why he was wore an orange uniform.[26]
- 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.[26]
- 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.[26]
| [edit] References - ^ Rosa Hwang (July 4, 2005). "Inside Guantanamo Bay". CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_hwang/20050704.html. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- ^ Adam Brookes (8 April 2005). "Inside Guantanamo's secret trials". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4422825.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- ^ "Detention Controversy". National Geographic. April 2005. http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature8/gallery3.html. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
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- ^ John B. Bellinger III (March 13, 2006). "Digital Video Press Conference with John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State". United States Department of State. http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany/bellinger_dvc.html.
- ^ "The World can't wiat -- drive out the Bush regime". http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news16/news766.html. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
- ^ "Guantanamo Bay 5th Anniversary 'Celebrations’". Indymedia. January 11, 2007. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/01/359615.html. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
- ^ "Five Years of Guantanamo". National Guantanamo Coalition. http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,23/year,2007/month,01/day,11/Itemid,51/. Retrieved July 18, 2007.
- ^ "Judge bars 'Guantanamo jumpsuit'". BBC. May 22, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5006728.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- ^ a b Tom Lasseter (June 15, 2008). "Guantanamo Inmate Database: Zia Khalid Najib". Miami Herald. http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/6. Retrieved 2008-06-16. mirror
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdullah Gulam Rasoul's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-6
- ^ a b c Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 70-80
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47-53
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Mazin Salih Musaid's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 14-26
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mosa Zi Zemmori's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 27
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hozaifa Parhat'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 43-54
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Dawd Gul's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 98
- ^ a b c Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Fouad Mahoud Hasan Al Rabia's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, pages 13-43
- ^ a b c d Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Majid Muhammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 107-121
- ^ a b c Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Usama Hassan Ahmed Abu Kabir's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 116-124
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar's first Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 100-116
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf) from Hafez Qari Mohamed Saad Iqbal Madni's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 46-58
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Khi Ali Gul's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 56
- ^ a b Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mammar Ameur's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 61-80
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Matin's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 23-50
- ^ a b c Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hamidullah'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 97-98
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