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Public Education – The International Program

Public Education – The International Program

International Visitors

Developing nations, especially ones with emerging or fledgling democracies, look to America to study its institutions, laws and the ingenious balance of powers created by our Founding Fathers. Through various programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), delegates from these nations visit the United States and are put into contact with organizations like Judicial Watch.  Since 2001, Judicial Watch has been a major participant in the Department of State’s IVLP and other leadership exchange programs, having received over 83 visiting delegations.  As the premier Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigator in America today, Judicial Watch is one of the most sought after transparency and accountability organizations for personal meetings with emerging leaders from around the world who are interested in learning how they can stop corruption and demand accountability from their judges, government officials, and political parties.

The United Nations Department of Public Information

The United Nations Department of Public Information hosts monthly briefings and other workshops and an annual conference where representatives of NGOs from every corner of the world come together for the purpose of networking and collaborating on solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems, from security issues such as crime and violence, hunger and disease, persecution and war, to major development issues of education, job opportunities, and women’s empowerment.

Judicial Watch is associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN.DPI) as a nongovernmental organization (UN-DPI), whose mission is to promote transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. It fulfills its educational mission through litigation, investigations, and public outreach. Its International Program serves as an integral part of its educational program.

Judicial Watch GTMO Observer Program

Judicial Watch was granted observer status by the Pentagon to observe the arraignment of Khalid Shieh Mohammad at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in June of 2008. Since the recommencement of the 9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in November 2011, JW has attended 95 percent of the hearings held at the detention facility, as well as Periodic Review Board Proceedings (PRBs) currently held at the Pentagon. Judicial Watch staff and representatives have attended and monitored over 154 hearings to date.

The second DuBay Hearing before the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review was held on April 9, 2019, at Joint Base Andrews of ISN 54 Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al Qosi.

Subject of Hearing:

Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, formerly interned at GTMO with Internment Serial Number (ISN) 54 and alternately known as Mohammed Ahmed and Abu Khubab al Sudani, is a Sudanese citizen who was captured and interned for his involvement in terrorist financial networks and active combat. He filed several cases during his detention, including a habeas corpus case, and was eventually charged by a military commission. Al Qosi pled guilty to the lesser charges, and so was found guilty of conspiracy and of providing material support for terrorism. While he received a sentence of 14 years of confinement, the judge in that case suspended 12 years of the sentence on three conditions, one of which was that Al Qosi would not become involved in or otherwise support terrorism in the future.

Subsequent to his repatriation to Sudan, Al Qosi re-engaged in acts of terrorism and became one of the public faces of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review (USCMCR) ordered a DuBay hearing to determine if Al Qosi does now qualify as an “unprivileged enemy belligerent” in violation of his sentence suspension and so can be made the subject of recall efforts to enforce the remaining 12 years of his sentence and bring him to trial for crimes committed after his release. Though no information is available to determine whether Al Qosi was aware of this hearing, his first DuBay hearing was scheduled for 12 July 2017.

See ISN 54 below for summary of most recent hearing on April 9, 2019.

 

PRB ARCHIVES

ISN Number     Name of Detainee
ISN 54 Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al Qosi
Hearing Summaries:
ISN 63 Mohammad Mani Ahmad Al Qahtani

Hearing Summaries:
 ISN 569  Suhayl Abdul Anam Al Sharabi

Hearing Summaries:
ISN 1457  Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj

Hearing Summaries:

 

The Hill published the following article by Thomas Wheatley, a participant in Judicial Watch’s GTMO Observer Program.

“Trump, honor Obama’s agreement to release Guantanamo detainee,”
The Hill, October 4, 2017

About Thomas Wheatley, https://www2.gmu.edu/news/424386

 

International Visitors and UN DPI/NGO Briefings

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