Ahmed Mohamed (Guantanamo Bay Detainee) - The Uyghur Detainees

The Uyghur Detainees

Name Status Notes
Edham Mamet Released
  • His Summary of Evidence (CSRT) was drafted on 5 November 2004, six days after the "Information Paper" on the Uyghur captives.
  • Did not attend his CSRT.
  • Alleged to have participated in the Mazari Sharif prison uprising.
  • 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.
Arkin Mahmud Released
  • His Summary of Evidence (CSRT) was drafted on 9 November 2004, ten days after the "Information Paper" on the Uyghur captives was drafted.
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Attended his ARB hearing.
  • 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.
Ahmad Tourson Released
  • Attended his CSRT.
Abdul Razakah

Released

  • Alleged to have guarded an Al-Qaida safe house in Jalalabad.
  • Said he supported himself by catering. He catered the food for the camp. He catered food to Uyghurs in Afghan hospitals.
  • Said he traveled to the camp, when the USA attacked, because he wanted to be with his countrymen.
  • Thirty-five pages of Tribunal documents were published in 2007.
  • Allegedly recruited by Hassan Maksum.
  • His Administrative Review Board recommended transfer from Guantanamo on November 17, 2005.
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • 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 Released
  • Alleged to have traveled on a false passport.
  • Didn't attend his CSRT, but he did submit a statement.
  • Stated he only fired a handful of bullets when shown how to use an AK-47.
  • His habeas corpus petition contained a seven page memo containing otherwise unpublished information about all the Uyghurs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Ahmed Adil Released
  • Allegedly learned to "break down" an AK-47 in a construction camp in Afghanistan.
  • Denied any association to terrorism during his CSRT.
  • CSRT determined that he was not an "enemy combatant".
  • Wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pleading for her intercession to get released.
  • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.
Yusef Abbas Held
  • Allegedly wounded by the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan in Tora Bora.
  • Pointed out in his testimony that travel from China to Afghanistan was not illegal.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Akhdar Qasem Basit Released
  • Alleged to be a Uighur fighter.
  • Confirmed that he was shown how to fire an AK-47, and fired three or four bullets, at the construction camp in Afghanistan
  • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.
Bahtiyar Mahnut Released
  • Accused of fleeing the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • His Tribunal President disputed that he had denied due process.
  • The Fifth Denbeaux study, the No-hearing hearings, criticized Mahnut's Tribunal's President for denying his witness requests because they might be "repetitive". 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.
  • Allegedly served with the Taliban near Mazari Sharif.
  • Disputed that any Uyghur group would ally itself to the United States' enemies because the Uyghurs are counting on U.S. support.
  • Cleared for release or transfer in 2005.
Abdul Helil Mamut Released
  • Alleged to have been present in the Uyghur camp during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.
  • 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.
  • His Board recommended his transfer on 18 November 2005.
Haji Mohammed Ayub Transferred
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.
Saidullah Khalik Held
  • No record that he attended his CSR Tribunal.
  • Was wounded during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman Released
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
  • A rare letter from "Abdulghappar Turkistani" was published on March 20, 2008. According to Abdulghappar all the remaining Uyghurs were being held, in solitary confinement, in the high security Camp 6.
Hajiakbar Abdulghupur Held
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Abu Bakr Qasim Released
  • Alleged to have received a month of military training.
  • Testified he did not receive any military training.
  • CSRT determined that he was not an "enemy combatant".
  • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.
Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun Released
  • Testified that Hassan Maksum showed him how to fire a couple of rifle bullets.
  • Testified that the camp was incomplete, had no latrines, and that most of their time was spent in construction.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Dawut Abdurehim Released
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Adel Abdulhehim Released
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Transported to Albania on May 5, 2006.
Emam Abdulahat Released
  • Attended his CSRT.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
Hozaifa Parhat Released
  • Parhat acknowledged being shown how to use two different weapons while in Afghanistan.
  • Parhat disputed that the Taliban or al Qaida funded the camp.
  • Determined to have been an "enemy combatant", but there is no record that any annual Administrative Review Board hearings have been convened.
  • On June 20, 2008 a three judge appeals court ruled that his classification as an enemy combatant was "invalid".
Ahmad Muhamman Yaqub Released
Adel Noori Released
  • Chinese refugee wrongfully imprisoned for over seven years.
  • Won his habeas corpus in 2008.
  • Sent to Palau in 2009 after the United States refused to grant him asylum.

Radio Free Asia named the five released Uyghurs. But the report identified the Uyghurs with different transliterations than that used in the U.S. press release: Ababehir Qasim, Adil Abdulhakim, Ayuphaji Mahomet, Ahter and Ahmet.

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