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The Algerian Six are six Bosnian men (five of them citizens with dual nationality), all born in Algeria, who had been imprisoned without charges at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since January 2002. They filed for ''habeas'' corpus in United States federal court and their case reached the United States Supreme Court. It ruled in ''Boumediene v. Bush'' (2008) that detainees and foreign nationals had rights to file for ''habeas corpus'' in federal courts. Following his review of their cases, a US District Court judge ordered five of the Bosnians to be released based on insufficient evidence. Finally in 2009 the US released the men. Three were flown to Bosnia to reunite with their families under 'protective custody.' The US refused to let Boudmediene return to Bosnia and he feared returning to Algeria because of potential retaliation; France offered to let him settle there. He has been joined in Provence by his wife and children. District Judge Leon recommended the continued detention of Belkacem, but his attorneys appealed his case. In 2010, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals overturned Leon's decision. They determined that Belkacem was not a member of al Qaeda and should be released. After the men fell under U.S. suspicion, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina picked them up in 2001 and tried them, but released them for lack of evidence. They were illegally turned over to US intelligence officials in January 2002 in Sarajevo and transported to Guantanamo. They had been detained there without charges by the US for the years since. The Bosnian authorities were formally condemned for their actions by the Human Rights Chamber of Bosnia Herzegovina, the relevant Bosnian court at the time.〔http://www.hrc.ba/database/decisions/CH02-8679%20BOUDELLAA%20et%20al.%20Admissibility%20and%20Merits%20E.pdf〕 In late 2004, the six men were sent before Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) of three United States military officers. The CSRTs concluded that each of the six men was properly classified as an "enemy combatant" based on classified evidence. But, the CSRTs were criticized for applying a definition of "enemy combatant" that was so broad that the government admitted it could include a "little old lady in Switzerland," who donated money to a charity in Afghanistan that, without her knowledge, funded al Qaeda.〔 〕 (See Transcript of Motion to Dismiss before United States District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green at pp. 25–26) (December 1, 2004) ''Rasul v. Bush'', Docket No. 02-02999; see also press coverage, for example, Neil A. Lewis, "Fate of Guantanamo Detainees Is debated in Federal Court," ''NY Times'' (December 2, 2004).〔http://www.mayispeakfreely.org/nodev/index.php?gSec=doc&doc_id=117〕 Wolfgang Petritsch, a UN diplomat and former High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, said the US threatened the UN to withdraw their men from the mission at the time if he protested against the transfer of the Six out of Bosnia. == The Six == The six men are: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algerian Six」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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