AP
June 24, 2008
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court announced yesterday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.
In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, undermining the basis for his more than six years in detention.
The appeals court directed the US military to release Parhat, transfer him or hold a new proceeding promptly in light of the ruling.
He has been held because he is linked to a Chinese separatist group the military says has ties to al Qaeda.
