Administrative Review Board

The ARB was created in an attempt to mitigate the harsh results of potentially indefinite detention by allowing an annual review to determine whether the individual should still be detained.

They determined that the rest of the detainees had been correctly classified as "enemy combatants" during their original, secret, classifications.

The DoD also released an incomplete set of four files containing summarized transcripts from administrative review board hearings.

[28][29] In early September 2007 the DoD published additional documents from the second set of Review Board hearings convened in 2006.

[41] US officials said their continued detention was due to concerns the detainees might be tortured or killed if they were returned or repatriated.

[42] Adam Brookes of the BBC wrote on April 8, 2005, about being allowed to sit in on the first Administrative Review Board hearing where observers were permitted.

Hearing room where Guantanamo detainee's annual Administrative Review Board hearings convened for those whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal had already determined they were an "enemy combatant". [ 1 ]