Abdul Zahir

Male, Person

1972 –

92

Who is Abdul Zahir?

Abdul Zahir is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was the tenth captive, and the first Afghan, to face charges before the first, Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military commissions. After the Supreme Court ruled the President lacked the constitutional authority to set up military commissions, the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, he was not charged under that system.

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1972

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on July 23, 2013

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