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Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay
The United States government detained twenty-two Turkestan Islamic Movement leaders Abdul Haq and Has-
Uyghurs in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp since san Maksum. At least one described being trained on a
2002. As of today the five Uyghurs Abdul Razakah, Yusef pistol.
Abbas, Hajiakbar Abdulghupur, Saidullah Khalik and
Ahmed Mohamed remain in Guantanamo and have filed Fleeing the camp after it was bombed
cases in US courts to obtain the right to be brought to the The Uyghurs who were present at the alleged camp re-
United States. Several support groups in the US, especial- ported that they did not expect their camp to be
ly in Washington D.C., have expressed their will to inte- bombed.[citation needed] Some of them acknowledged that
grate these men into their community.[1][2][3][4] they had heard of the September 11, 2001 attacks on
Uyghurs are an ethnic group from Central Asia and the radio, but none of them knew that the Taliban were
Xinjiang province in western China.[5] accused of involvement.[citation needed] They all acknowl-
The Washington Post reported on August 24, 2005 that edged having fled the camp when it was bombed. They all
fifteen Uyghurs had been determined to be "No longer stated that they were unarmed. One of the Uyghurs said
enemy combatants" (NLECs).[6] The Post reported that de- Maksum was killed in the bombing.[citation needed]
tainees who had been classified as NLEC were, not only
still being incarcerated, but were still being shackled to Motives
the floor. Five of these Uyghurs, who had filed for writs of
None of the Uyghurs described seeing the United States
habeas corpus, were transported to Albania on May 5, 2006
as an enemy. All of the Uyghurs who mentioned the Peo-
just prior to a scheduled judicial review of their petitions.
ple’s Republic of China described its government as an
The other seventeen obtained writs of habeas corpus in
oppressive occupation. Some of the Uyghurs said that
2008.
they sought out the training in order to go back to China
and defend their fellow Uyghurs against their Chinese
Common elements in the alle- occupiers.[citation needed] Some of the other Uyghurs said
they sought out the camp of fellow Uyghurs because they
gations were waiting for a visa to Iran, one of the countries they
• Most of the Uyghurs were alleged to be members or had to pass through on their way to Turkey.[citation needed]
supporters of the East Turkistan Islamic They had heard that Turkey would grant them political
Movement.[citation needed] asylum.[citation needed]
• Most of the Uyghurs were alleged to have completed
military training.
• Some of the allegations stated that a supposed
Combatant Status Review Tri-
military training camp was in the Tora Bora bunal results
mountains.[citation needed]
From July 2004 through March 2005 all 568 of the de-
• Most of the Uyghurs were alleged to have accepted
tainees held at Guantanamo had their detention re-
training that was sponsored by the Taliban, or Al
viewed by Combatant Status Review Tribunals. 38 of the
Qaeda.[citation needed]
detainees were determined to be NLEC. Five Uyghurs
• Eighteen of the Uyghurs were alleged to have fled
were among the 38 detainees determined not to have
when their camp was bombed as part of the United
been enemy combatants, and were transferred from the
States air bombing campaign of Afghanistan in
main detention camp to Camp Iguana.
2001.[citation needed]
This conclusion was remarked on by the first Den-
beaux study, that pointed out that many of the detainees
Common elements in the de- who remained incarcerated had faced much less serious
allegations than the Uyghurs had faced.
tainees’ testimony On May 10, 2006 Radio Free Asia reported that the five
Uyghurs transported to Albania were the only Uyghurs
AK-47 training who had been moved to Camp Iguana.[8]
Several of the detainees admitted receiving training on
the AK-47, including Bahtiyar Mahnut, Yusef Abbas, and
Abdul Hehim.[7] They described being trained by East
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Documents published in response to Sweden.[17] Sten De Geer, his Swedish lawyer, plans to ap-
peal the ruling, because Albania will not allow his wife
captives’ habeas petitions and children to join him.
In September 2007 the Department of Defense published On February 9, 2009, Reuters reported that the five
dossiers prepared from the unclassified documents aris- Uyghurs in Albania had heard from the seventeen
ing from the captives’ Combatant Status Review Tri- Uyghurs left behind in Guantanamo, and that their con-
bunals.[9] Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population ditions had improved.[18]
at JTF-GTMO
Deal between the US and the
Asylum in Albania
None of the Uyghurs wanted to be returned to China. The
PRC to persecute them?
United States declined to grant the Uyghurs political asy- An article in the December 5, 2006 edition of The Wash-
lum, or to allow them parole, or even freedom on the ington Post reported on a legal appeal launched on behalf
Naval Base. of seven of the Uyghurs remaining in detention in Guan-
Some of the Uyghurs had lawyers who volunteered tanamo.[7] The article reports that the Uyghurs’ lawyers
to help them pursue a writ of habeas corpus, which would argued that the evidence against their clients was essen-
have been one step in getting them freed from U.S. de- tially identical to that against the five Uyghurs who were
tention. released; that the process by which their "enemy com-
In the case of Qassim v. Bush, those Uyghurs argued batant" status had been determined, and reviewed, was
for their writ of habeas corpus in United States Court of flawed.
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was sched- The article went on to quote Washington officials,
uled to hear arguments on Monday May 8, 2006. Five of and former officials, about whether the group that the
the Uyghurs were transported to Albania, on Friday May Uyghurs were accused of belonging to had been added
5, 2006; the United States filed an emergency motion to to the State Department’s list of Terrorist organizations
dismiss later that day. The court dismissed the case as largely to secure acquiescence from the PRC to the then
moot.[10] imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq.[7] The article quotes the
Barbara Olshansky, one of the Uyghur’s lawyers, Uyghurs’ lawsuit:
characterized the sudden transfer as an attempt to: "In the crisis atmosphere of the time, the interests of a
"...avoid having to answer in court for keeping innocent men in few dozen refugees paled beside the urgency of the
jail,[11]" Administration’s war plans,"
Some press reports state that the Uyghurs have been
granted political asylum in Albania. But the U.S. govern- The article quotes Susan Baker Manning, one of the
ment press release merely states that they are applying Uyghurs’ lawyers:[7]
for asylum in Albania. "It is amazing to me that the US has agreed to in effect
On May 9, 2006 the Associated Press reported that the hold political prisoners for China in exchange for
People’s Republic of China (PRC) denounced the transfer anything. That goes against everything that we, I
of custody.[12][13] The PRC called the transfer of the thought, stood for in this country."
Uyghurs to Albania a violation of international law. Alba-
Guantanamo spokesmen, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, re-
nia agreed to examine the evidence against the men.
sponded to the appeal with the comment: "There is a sig-
Radio Free Asia reports that the five were staying at a
nificant amount of evidence, both unclassified and classified,
National Center for Refugees in a Tirana suburb.[8]
which supports detention by U.S. forces,"[19] According to the
On May 24, 2006 Abu Bakr Qasim told interviewers
Associated Press Gordon told reporters: "...the seven had
that he and his compatriots felt isolated in Albania.[14]
’multiple’ reviews and were properly classified as enemy com-
Qasim described his disappointment with the United
batants."
States, who the Uyghurs had been hoping would support
An article about the Uyghurs’ appeal, in The Jurist, cit-
the Uyghurs quest for Uyghur autonomy. To the BBC he
ing the Fifth Denbeaux Report: The no-hearing hearings,
said that "Guantanamo was a five-year nightmare. We’re
called the Uighur’s Combatant Status Review Tribunals
trying to forget it".[15]"
"show trials" [20]
trials".
In an interview with ABC News Qasim said that mem-
An article published on April 18, 2007 discussed the
bers of the American-Uyghur community had come for-
diplomatic problem posed by finding a new home for
ward and assured the U.S. government that they would
the Uyghurs in detail.[21] The article quotes their lawyer,
help him and his compatriots adapt to life in the United
Sabin Willett:
States, if they were given asylum there.[16]
On June 19, 2008 the Associated Press reported that "No country will take them because either they’ve
Adel Abdu Al-Hakim had been denied political asylum in read all the newspapers printing claims by U.S. au-
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thorities that Guantanamo is a place where the
worst of the worst are being held, and they believe
The passage of the Military
that it’s true, or, these countries say, ’Well if these Commissions Act and the De-
guys are innocent, then why don’t you, the United
States, take them? Why won’t you take them if tainee Treatment Act
they’re not bad guys?’ In the Summer of 2006, the habeas corpus submissions
"And the U.S. doesn’t really have a good answer for known as Hamdan v. Rumsfeld reached the United States
that." Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled the Executive
Branch lacked the Constitutional authority to initiate
Held in isolation, in Camp Six military commissions to try Guantanamo captives. How-
ever, it also ruled that the United States Congress did
have the authority to set up military commissions. And,
in the fall of 2006 the Congress passed the Military Com-
missions Act, setting up military commissions similar to
those initially set up by the Executive Branch.
The Act also stripped captives of the right to file
habeas corpus submissions in the US Court system.[21]
The earlier Detainee Treatment Act, passed on December
31, 2005, had stripped captives of the right to initiate new
habeas corpus submissions, while leaving existing habeas
corpus motions in progress.
The Detainee Treatment Act had explicitly autho-
rized an appeal process for Combatant Status Review Tri-
This is said to be David Hicks’s cell, in Camp Six. The windows bunals which failed to follow the military’s own rules.[21]
looks down on central common rooms, which are left vacant, as And Sabin Willet, the Uyghur’s lawyer, has chosen to ini-
a change in policy, to turn the facility in a "supermax" facility, tiate appeals of the Uyghur’s Combatant Status Review
made common rooms redundant. The inset picture is of a
Tribunals.
"reading room". Captives are, occasionally taken to these
"reading rooms", during their one-hour per day they are taken
"Each Uighurs’ CSRT was inconsistent with the
from their cell. However, they remain in isolation. Only one
standards and procedures specified by the Secre-
captive at a time is allowed in each reading room or exercise
yard. tary of Defense, because none appropriately ap-
plied the definition of ’Enemy Combatant’. The
On March 11, 2007 the Boston Globe reported that the 17 CSRT Procedures defined an ’enemy combatant’ as:
remaining Uyghur captives had been transferred to the ’an individual who was part of or supporting the
newly built Camp Six, in Guantanamo.[22] The Globe re- Taliban or al-Qaida forces, or associated forces that
ports that the Uyghurs are held for 22 hours a day in are engaged in hostilities against the United States
cells without natural light. The Globe points out that pri- or its coalition partners.’"
or to their detention in Camp Six, they were able to so-
However, Willet argues, the Combatant Status Review
cialize with one another, but that they couldn’t speak
Tribunals failed to consider the interrogators conclu-
to the prisoners in neighboring cells because none of
sions that the Uyghurs were not enemies, had not sup-
them speak Arabic or Pashto. The Globe quotes Sabin Wil-
ported the Taliban, and had not engaged in hostilities.[21]
lett, the Uyghur’s lawyer, who reports that, consequent-
Assistant Attorney General Peter D. Keisler led the
ly, there has been a serious decline in the Uyghur’s men-
response team. Keisler’s team accused Willet of trying
tal health.
to:[21]
According to the Globe: "The military says the Uighurs
were put there either because they attacked guards or trashed
"...recreate the habeas regime that Congress re-
their quarters during the riot last May."[22]
cently abolished."
The Globe quotes Sabin Willett’s explanation for the
Uyghur’s new harsher detention. Willett: "...links their as- They said the argument boiled down to:[21]
signment to Camp Six to a filing he made seeking their re-
lease."[22] "[Should] detainees captured on a battlefield dur-
ing a time of war, be given unprecedented access
to our nations courts and to classified information,
even after Congress emphatically rejected such an
approach?"
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Asylum negotiations Role of American Uyghurs
An article published by the Associated Press on October 10,
The Uyghurs can not be repatriated to China because do-
2008, quoted Elshat Hassan and Nury Turkel, two lead-
mestic U.S. law proscribes deporting individuals to coun-
ers of the Uyghur American Association, about plans for
tries where they are likely to be abused.[23]
American-Uyghurs to help the Uyghur captives acclima-
The Bush administration conducted bilateral negoti-
tize, once they have been admitted to the USA.[29] Turkel
ations with a number of other countries, to accept cap-
said the Uyghurs are as oppressed as the Tibetans, but
tives who had been cleared for release, with very limited
they don’t receive as much recognition because they lack
success. Frustrated British officials who were negotiating
a high profile leader, like the Dalai Lama.
for the return of Guantanamo captives who had been
granted UK residency permission prior to their capture
leaked the conditions Bush administration officials were
Asylum in Munich
trying to insist upon. Bush officials were insisting that On February 7, 2009, the Hindustan Times reported that
Britain either indefinitely incarcerate the men, upon the Munich city council had passed a motion to invite
their arrival—or they place them under round the clock the remaining seventeen Uyghurs to settle in Munich.[30]
surveillance. The article asserts that Munich is home to the largest
community of Uyghurs outside of China.
Early release discussions
The Asia Times reported, on November 4, 2004, that there
Temporary asylum in Palau
had been internal discussion over how the US could re- In June 2009, Palauan President Johnson Toribiong
lease Uyghurs, without putting their safety at risk.[23] agreed to "temporarily resettle" up to seventeen of the
Uyghur detainees, at the United States’ re-
Asylum in Canada quest.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
On September 10, 2009 The Times reported that three
On June 2, 2008 the Globe and Mail reported that recently
of the Uyghurs, Dawut Abdurehim and Anwar Assan, and
released documents suggested that the Government of
another man whose identity has not been made public,
Canada had come close to offering asylum to the
have accepted the invitation to be transferred to asylum
Uyghurs.[24] The Globe reports that Canadian officials
in Palau.[38]
held back from offering the Uyghur captives asylum out
On September 19, 2009 Fox News reported that in the
of fear that the PRC government would retaliate against
week since the first announcement three further
Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen of Uyghur background,
Uyghurs agreed to be transferred to Palau.[39] Fox report-
who was in Chinese custody.
ed that five of the other Uyghurs had refused to speak
On February 4, 2009 the Globe and Mail reported that
with Palau officials.
Hassan Anvar’s refugee claim, and the refugee claims of
On October 31, 2009 Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar
two of his compatriots were close to comple-
Abdul Rahman, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Ab-
tion.[25][26][27] The article quoted Mehmet Tohti, a
durehim and Adel Noori were reported to have been
Uyghur human rights activist who stated that he had met
transferred to Palau.[40][41][42][43][44]
with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. According to
the Globe, Tohti claimed there had been a positive con-
sensus to admit Anvar, and two men whose lawyers
Bermuda
haven’t authorized their names to be released. According On June 11, 2009, Abdul Helil Mamut, Huzaifa Parhat,
to the Canwest News Service, Kenney is considering issuing Emam Abdulahat and Jalal Jalaladin[45] arrived in the Bri-
special ministerial permits for the three Uyghurs. Ac- tish overseas territory of Bermuda.[46] The cost of the
cording to Reuters, Alyshan Velshi, from Kenney’s office, relocation will be borne by the United States, while the
disputed whether Canada was close to accepting any government of Bermuda would arrange documentation,
Uyghurs.[28] The other fourteen Uyghurs hadn’t yet sat- residence and housing.[47]
isfied an obligation Canada expects of refugee According to their lawyers, the four men will be
claimants—that they establish their identity. "guest workers" in Bermuda;[48] according to Premier of
The Don Valley Refugee Resettlement Organization is Bermuda Ewart Brown, however, they will instead be giv-
sponsoring Hassan Anvar’s refugee claim.[25] The arch- en the opportunity to become naturalised "citizens" —
diocese of Montreal is sponsoring the other two men. currently impossible under Bermudian law, and a right
Their sponsors will support the men with housing and which many residents, who are locally born and raised,
clothing, if they are admitted. do not have[49] — with the ability to eventually travel
freely.[47] The decision was made without the knowledge
of Richard Gozney, the Governor of Bermuda, responsible
for foreign affairs and security matters, who only found
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What is clear is that no court has ever ruled that detainees, designated as enemy combatants, have a right to
challenge the conditions of their confinement pursuant to the constitutional writ of habeas corpus.
Furthermore, courts are reluctant to second-guess day-to-day operations of domestic prison facilities,
especially when doing so intrudes upon the military and national security affairs. This deference combined
with the paucity of evidence of irreparable injury and the petitioners’ failure to articulate a specific
constitutional right and standard from which to analyze the facts of this case presses the court to deny the
petitioners’ motion for a TRO and a preliminary injunction.
out after their arrival.[50] Brown’s promise of "citizen-
ship" was apparently made without the knowledge of the
Motions following Boumediene
British government, whose citizenship is being offered. v. Bush
The offer of asylum was strongly criticised both within
On July 7, 2008 a petition was filed on behalf of the sev-
Bermuda and by the UK. This was not the first time that
enteen Uyghurs.[58] On August 5, 2008 the United States
Bermuda hosted refugees; during the 1970s, five people
Department of Justice opposed Parhat being released in
from Vietnam were allowed into the country; only one
the US, and to having a judgment made on his habeas
remains there, following the emigration of three others
petition.[59] The Government’s opposition filing was 22
and the death of the fifth.[51] The following day, the Op-
pages long.
position United Bermuda Party moved for a motion of no
confidence against Brown,[52] while the British govern-
ment declared its intentions to review its legal relation- Petition to be moved from soli-
ship with the territory.[53]
On September 29, 2011 the Antigua Observer quoted tary confinement
Henry Bellingham the United Kingdom’s Overseas Ter- In early August 2008 US District Court Judge Ricardo M.
ritories Minister on the UK’s expectation that the USA Urbina declined to rule in favor of transferring six of the
would find a permanent home for the four Uyghurs in an- Uyghurs from Camp 6 where captives are held in soli-
other country.[54] tary confinement to Camp 4 where they live in communal
barracks with fellow captives.[60][61][62][63][64] Urbina’s
“This is something that we weren’t consulted on by nine page memorandum opinion addressed the needs of
the last (Brown) administration. We have spoken to Hammad Memet, Khalid Ali, Edham Mamet, Bahtiyar
the United States about it — it’s our understanding Mahnut, Arkin Mahmud, Adel Noori.
that the arrangement was not to be permanent and
we’re looking to the US State Department to find
a permanent solution. We’re working with them to No longer classed as "enemy
try and achieve that.”
combatants"
On September 30, 2008, Gregory Katsas, Assistant Attor-
Supreme Court’s ruling in ney General filed a "notice of status" for the remaining
Boumediene v. Bush Uyghur captives—stating that they would no longer be
classed as "enemy combatants".[65][66] According to The
On June 12, 2008 the United States Supreme Court ruled AM Law Daily the Department of Justice was scheduled to
on Boumediene v. Bush. Its ruling overturned aspects of appear before Ricardo M Urbina on October 7, 2008, to
the Detainee Treatment Act and Military Commissions defend classifying the men as enemy combatants.
Act, allowing Guantanamo captives to access the US jus- Although they were no longer considered "enemy
tice system for habeas petitions. combatants" camp authorities continued to hold six of
the men in solitary confinement.[65]
Parhat v. Gates On Tuesday October 7, 2008, US District Court Judge
Ricardo Urbina ruled that the Uyghurs had to be brought
On Monday June 23, 2008 it was announced that a three
to the US to appear in his court in Washington DC on Fri-
judge Federal court of appeal had ruled, in Parhat v.
day 10 October 2008.[67]
Gates, on Friday June 20, 2008, that the determination of
The United States Department of Justice filed an
Hozaifa Parhat’s Combatant Status Review Tribunal was
emergency motion to stay the Uyghurs’ admission to the
"invalid".[55][56][57]
US.[68] On October 8, 2008, a three judge appeal panel
granted the emergency motion to stay the Uyghur’s
transfer. The judges stay was to enable the appeals court
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name status notes
Edham Mamet • His Summary of Evidence (CSRT) was drafted on 5 November 2004, six days
Released after the "Information Paper" on the Uyghur captives.
• Did not attend his CSRT.
• Alleged to have participated in the Mazari Sharif prison uprising.[75]
• CSR Tribunal did not convene in Guantanamo.
• Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
convened.[76][77]
Arkin Mahmud • His Summary of Evidence (CSRT) was drafted on 9 November 2004, ten days
Released after the "Information Paper" on the Uyghur captives was drafted.
• Attended his CSRT.[78]
• Attended his ARB hearing.[79]
• Mahmud is not accused of attending a training camp, or of engaging in
hostilities, or of any association with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or any group
associated with terrorism.
• Mahmud traveled to Afghanistan to seek out his brother, who, he said he
was surprised to learn, was attending a training camp.
• Mahmud’s release or transfer was authorized on 9 January 2006. [80][81]
Ahmad Tourson • Attended his CSRT.[82]
Released
Abdul Razakah • Alleged to have guarded an Al-Qaida safe house in Jalalabad.[83]
Held • Said he supported himself by catering. He catered the food for the camp. He
catered food to Uyghurs in Afghan hospitals.[84]
• Said he traveled to the camp, when the USA attacked, because he wanted to
be with his countrymen.[84]
• Thirty-five pages of Tribunal documents were published in 2007. [85]
• Allegedly recruited by Hassan Maksum.[86]
• His Administrative Review Board recommended transfer from Guantanamo
on November 17, 2005.[87][88]
• Attended his CSRT.[89]
• Said he was working as a driver, was not attending any training camps.
• Acknowledged making a couple of deliveries of food to the Uyghur camp.
Hassan Anvar • Alleged to have traveled on a false passport.[90]
Released • Didn’t attend his CSRT, but he did submit a statement.[91]
• Stated he only fired a handful of bullets when shown how to use an
AK-47.[92]
• His habeas corpus petition contained a seven page memo containing
otherwise unpublished information about all the Uyghurs. [93]
• The Fifth Denbeaux study, the No-hearing hearings, reported that Hassan
Anvar’s original Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined that he not
an enemy combatant, but the DoD convened two further Tribunals in order
to reverse that determination.[91]
• Although Anvar submitted a statement to the original Tribunal, the one he
was allowed to attend, none of the transcripts of any of the unclassified
sessions of any of his Tribunals were released.
• Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
convened.[76][77]
Ahmed Adil • Allegedly learned to "break down" an AK-47 in a construction camp in
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• Denied any association to terrorism during his CSRT. [95]
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• CSRT determined that he was not an "enemy combatant".
• Wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pleading for her intercession
to get released.[96]
• Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.[8]
Yusef Abbas • Allegedly wounded by the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan in
Held Tora Bora.[97]
• Pointed out in his testimony that travel from China to Afghanistan was not
illegal.[98]
• Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
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Akhdar Qasem • Alleged to be a Uighur fighter.[99]
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bullets, at the construction camp in Afghanistan[100]
• Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.[8][101]
Bahtiyar Mahnut • Accused of fleeing the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.[102]
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• The Fifth Denbeaux study, the No-hearing hearings, criticized Mahnut’s
Tribunal’s President for denying his witness requests because they might be
"repetitive".[91] The study pointed out that witnesses could only be denied
for not being relevant, or for not being "reasonably available".
• Allegedly stayed at a Uyghur guest house in Jalalabad.[105]
• Allegedly served with the Taliban near Mazari Sharif.[105]
• Disputed that any Uyghur group would ally itself to the United States’
enemies because the Uyghurs are counting on U.S. support. [106]
• Cleared for release or transfer in 2005.[107][108]
Abdul Helil Ma- • Alleged to have been present in the Uyghur camp during the American
mut Released aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.[109]
• Testified he had studied at a technical college in Lahore for three years, and
had only gone to stay at the Uyghur construction camp after he flunked
out.[110][111]
• His Board recommended his transfer on 18 November 2005.[112][113]
Haji Mohammed • Attended his CSRT.[114]
Ayub Transferred • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.[8][101]
Saidullah Khalik • No record that he attended his CSR Tribunal.
Held • Was wounded during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.[115]
• Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
convened.[76][77]
Abdul Ghappar • Attended his CSRT.[116]
Abdul Rahman Released • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
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• A rare letter from "Abdulghappar Turkistani" was published on March 20,
2008.[117] According to Abdulghappar all the remaining Uyghurs were being
held, in solitary confinement, in the high security Camp 6.
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ghupur Held • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
convened.[76][77]
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• Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.[8]
Abdullah Ab- • Testified that Hassan Maksum showed him how to fire a couple of rifle
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their time was spent in construction.[121]
• Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that
any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
convened.[76][77]
Dawut Abdure- • Attended his CSRT.[122]
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convened.[76][77]
Adel Abdulhehim • Attended his CSRT.[123]
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any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been
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man Yaqub Held
Adel Noori • Chinese refugee wrongfully imprisoned for over seven years.
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