Personal Representative (CSRT)

The Personal Representative is an officer who serves before the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, convened for the captives the United States holds in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Initially United States President George W. Bush asserted that captives taken during the "Global War on Terror":

This assertion was criticized by many legal scholars, and lawyers who volunteered to represent Guantanamo captives mounted legal challenges in the US Court system. The first legal challenge to be heard before the United States Supreme Court was Rasul v. Bush.

The Supreme Court addressed some aspects of the case. In particular, it ruled that the Guantanamo captives were entitled to an opportunity to hear, and challenge, the allegations the DoD felt justified their continued extrajudicial detention.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the Department of Defense should convene Tribunals similar to those described in Army Regulation 190-8.

Army Regulation 190-8 sets out the procedure officers of the United States armed forces should follow to determine whether captives taken during a war were:

Guantanamo captive's Personal Representatives duties included:

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, singled out the Personal Representatives of two captives who were notably active on their behalf. The names of these officers has not been made public, but the captives they represented were: Farouq Saif and Muhammed Khan Tumani.

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