Abdul Majid Muhammed

Iranian Guantanamo detainee

Abdul Majid Muhammed (عبدالمجید محمد) is a citizen of Iran who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 555. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1978, in Zahedan, Iran. Abdul Majid Muhammed was captured in Afghanistan and was transferred to Iran on October 11, 2006.

The Guardian reported on March 15, 2006, that Muhammad was accused of serving as a night watchman for the Taliban.

Initially, the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the United States could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status. Subsequently, the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdul Majid Muhammed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 3 December 2004.

Muhammed chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. His Tribunal was convened on December 10, 2004.

Lieutenant Commander Peter C. Bradford, one of the officers from the Judge Advocate General's Corps tasked to serve as a legal advisor to the CSR Tribunals, wrote a Legal Sufficiency Review, dated February 5, 2005. His status was considered by the 12th panel of officers sitting on Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The president of his tribunal was a colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. The JAG officer was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. The third member was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force.

Muhammed chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing. In the Spring of 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff, the Department of Defense published an eight page summarized transcript from his Administrative Review Board.