List of Tajikistani detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.[1] The Guantanamo Bay detainment camps were opened on January 11, 2002, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.

Press reports

In 2006, the magazine Mother Jones published a feature article titled "The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story".[2] The article was based on an interview with Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov, a Tajik from a village named Alisurkhon. Umarov said that he and a neighbor from his village were captured while visiting a third neighbor at his university in Pakistan. Umarov named his two neighbors, Mazharudin and Abdughaffor. He said they too had been sent to Guantanamo. Mazharudin is named on the official list, but Abdughaffor is not. Umarov told Mother Jones that Mazharudin and Abdughaffor were released on March 31, 2004, at the same time he was.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) acknowledged holding twelve Tajiks in Guantanamo.[1] The DoD acknowledged convening Combatant Status Review Tribunals for six of the Tajiks,[3] a process followed for every detainee who was still in Guantanamo in 2005.

On March 1, 2007, a press release announced that the DoD had returned three Tajiks back to Tajikistan.[4]

On August 7, 2007, Radio Free Europe reported that a former Tajik detainee, Mukit Vohidov, had been repatriated from Guantanamo to Tajikistani custody, in March 2007, and was about to stand trial. The report also stated that another former Tajik detainee, Ibrohim Nasriddinov, had recently stood trial, been convicted, and received a 23-year sentence.

List of Tajiks held in Guantanamo

ISN Name Date of birth Arrival date Departure date Notes
1973-03-15 2002-01-15 2007-02-28
  • Repatriated in March 2007.[5]
  • Put on trial on August 7, 2007.
  • Convicted of being a mercenary on August 18, 2007, and sentenced to 17 years in prison.[6]
  • Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that Umar Abdulayev had said that he, Sharipov, and one other Tajik were threatened by Tajikistani security officials, who told them they would be punished if they did not agree to pretend to be militant jihadists, and spy on real Tajikistani militant jihadists.[7]
1962-10-18 2002-02-09 2007-02-28
1963-08-05 2002-02-08 2004-07-17
1969-11-13 2002-01-15 2007-02-28
1978-03-03 2002-01-20 2005-08-19
1978-10-11 2002-02-09 2016-07-10
  • In November 2009 Abdulayev was the last Tajikistani in Guantanamo.
  • Abdulayev reported that visiting Tajikistani security officials threatened him and two other captives with retribution if they did not agree to pretend to be militant jihadists in order to spy on real militant jihadists, once they were repatriated.[9]
1965-05-07 2002-06-08 2004-07-17
1953 2002-06-14 2004-03-31
1980-10-06 2002-08-05 2004-03-31
1979-12-01 2002-08-05 2004-03-31
1974-01-09 2002-08-05 2004-03-31
1978 unknown[10] 2008-10-31[11]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)
  2. https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/09/man_who_has_been_to_america.html The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story
  3. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)
  4. Web site: Detainee Transfer Announced. March 1, 2007. . March 1, 2007.
  5. News: Former Guantanamo Inmates Go On Trial In Tajikistan. August 7, 2007. Radio Free Europe. 2007-08-07.
  6. News: Tajikistan high court sentences ex-Guantanamo detainees . . August 18, 2007 . Bernard Hibbitts . Bernard Hibbitts . 2007-08-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070823100428/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/08/tajikistan-high-court-sentences-ex.php . August 23, 2007.
  7. News: Fearful Guantánamo captive wants to stay behind . 2009-07-07 . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . . 2009-07-07 .
  8. News: Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased . . OARDEC . OARDEC . 2008-10-09 . 2008-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081220004442/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf . 2008-12-20.
  9. News: Tajik citizen says he prefers Guantanamo to returning home . . 2009-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140530/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=tajik-citizen-says-he-prefers-guantanamo-to-returning-home-2009-11-17 . 2011-07-23 . dead.
  10. His date of arrival in Guantanamo was not published.
  11. Web site: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 910 -- Notice of Transfer of Petitioner and Withdrawal of Request for Designation of Certain Information as Protected Information . . Gregory G. Katsas . Gregory G. Katsas . 2008-10-31 . 2008-11-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309210817/http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2008mc00442/131990/910/0.pdf . 2012-03-09.

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