A lawyer for Huzaifa Parhat, who has been kept virtually incommunicado for more than six years, said he and other members of Parhat’s legal team would seek to have him freed immediately.

That is to say—and as Eric’s closing swipe at Congress suggests—Eric believes that war should not be governed by legal standards at all. Which is fine, I suppose. But as Phil has stressed ...

In a brief order dated Tuesday, the three-judge panel denied without explanation a rehearing petition filed by the Justice Department a month ago in Parhat v. Gates (Circuit docket 06-1397). The ...

Huzaifa Parhat, well into his seventh year at Guantánamo, had a civilian judge review the evidence for his detention for the first time last week. The court ruled that the Pentagon's Combatant Status ...

Huzaifa Parhat – one of 16 Uighurs who remain in military detention at Guantanamo – was reportedly determined eligible for release more than four years ago, though the risk of persecution in ...

In deciding — in the first case of its kind — that the detention of Huzaifa Parhat was not supported by that evidence, the Circuit Court declined to rule on broader issues that lurked in the case on ...

The appeal court judges said the Pentagon must either free or transfer Huzaifa Parhat or hold a fresh hearing. Mr Parhat, a Muslim from China, was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and then sent to the ...

The Justice Department took that position as it defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur. He was captured in Afghanistan but says he considers China ...

The Chinese idiom, 麻雀虽小, 五脏俱全, Má què suī xiǎo, wǔ zàng jù quán, translates to: Despite its small size, a sparrow still has all the vital organs, Jahunger owner and founder Nadia Parhat explained. The ...