List of Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

Above:List of Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Label1:Nationality
Data1:Kazakhstani
Label2:Number of detainess
Data2:4
Label3:Names
Data3:Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev
Abdulrahim Kerimbakiyev
Yakub Abahanov
Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov
Label4:Status
Data4:Repatriated

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding four Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo.[1] A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002.The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008, the camp population stand at approximately 285.

Release negotiations

Kazakhstan's First Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Abuseitov confirmed, on January 16, 2003, that Kazakh security officials had interviewed two Kazakhstan citizens in Guantanamo.[2] He described the two detainees as "young", and stated that Kazakhstan had appealed to the USA for their release.

In November 2003, the Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst reported thatKazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart ToqaevKazakhstan had been negotiated with the USA for the release of its citizens.[3] The Minister stated:

Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo

isn name page numbers notes
84
CSRT allegations 4
CSRT transcript [{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_10_1089-1144.pdf#47}} 47-53]
ARB 1 transcript [{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#116}} 116]
ARB 1 decision 58-64
  • Allegedly kidnapped and forced to prepare food for Taliban soldiers.
  • Repatriated on 18 December 2006.[4]
521
CSRT transcript [{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_1_0001-0097.pdf#1}} 1-9]
ARB allegations [{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf#43}} 43]
ARB transcript [{{DoD detainees ARB|ARB_Transcript_Set_1_395-584.pdf#136}} 136-137]
  • Accused of being related to a terrorist suspect.[5]
  • Accused of living in government housing in Afghanistan.[6]
  • His statement to the Board is missing from his transcript.[7]
  • Released December 21, 2006.[8]
526
CSRT allegations 48
ARB allegations 85-88
ARB decision 101-107
528
CSRT transcript [{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_26_1848-1900.pdf#7}} 7-11]
  • Captured with two friends from his home town.
  • Allegedly stayed at various madrassas during his travels around Pakistan.
  • Accused of being present in Afghanistan when the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan began.
  • Released.

Ambassador Ordway's 22 May 2007 press briefing

American ambassador John M. Ordway addressed the Kazakhstani detainees in Guantanamo during a May 22, 2007, press briefing at the Kazakhstani Press Club.[12] Ordway confirmed that one detainee the USA considered a citizen of Kazakhstan remained in Guantanamo.He stated that it was against US policy to compensate former detainees.He asserted detainees were not detained any longer than necessary for US national security.

Question: What can you tell us about the fourth Kazakhstani still detained at the Guantanamo facility. Will the United States pay compensation if it turns out he violated no laws and was detained without cause?
Ambassador Ordway: With regard to the issue of compensation, we do not pay compensation for any of the enemy combatants who were in the Guantanamo facility.

With regard to the Kazakhstani citizen who is still there, as was the case before, I can't provide any details other than to say that we have been and will continue to be in discussion with the government of Kazakhstan about any possible release or return of their citizens.

There are many of these people, the reason they are released is because we do not have any particular charges. They were enemy combatants who were found in Afghanistan in circumstances that they were fighting with or participating with forces that were fighting U.S. forces and therefore were captured as enemy combatants. There was then a process to determine whether they represented any future threat. If not, as was the case with the three who were released, they are then released.

We also had a very extensive process to determine when there was no longer any reason to hold those people because they represented no further threat. That is exactly what happened with the three who were released and returned to Kazakhstan. They were no further threat.

October 2008 repatriation

On October 31, 2008, the Department of Defense announced two detainees were repatriated to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.[13] The DoD withheld the two men's names.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
  2. News: Kazakhstan to appeal to U.S. to release Guantanamo detainees. Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst. February 2, 2003. 2008-04-03.
  3. News: Kazakhstan inquiries about its citizen at Guantanamo. Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst. November 25, 2003. 2008-04-03.
  4. News: Perkins Coie Pro Bono Client Ihlkham Battayav Released from Guantanamo . . December 18, 2006 . 2008-04-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716093300/http://www.perkinscoie.com/news/news_detail.aspx?news=178 . July 16, 2011.
  5. Summarized transcripts (.pdf)
  6. Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)
  7. Summarized transcript (.pdf)
  8. News: Associated Press . Three ex-Guantánamo detainees free in Kazakhstan . . 2006-12-26 . 2008-06-18 . 2011-06-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605045857/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=19889 . dead .
  9. Summarized transcripts (.pdf)
  10. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abahanov, Yakub . 18 October 2004 . 48 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . 2008-01-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203003522/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#48 . 3 December 2007.
  11. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Abahanov, Yakub . 8 July 2005 . 85–87 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . 2008-01-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071204203434/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000394-000494.pdf#85 . 4 December 2007.
  12. News: Press Conference with Ambassador Ordway . . John M. Ordway . John M. Ordway . May 22, 2007 . 2008-04-03 . With regard to the issue of compensation, we do not pay compensation for any of the enemy combatants who were in the Guantanamo facility. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080620072713/http://kazakhstan.usembassy.gov/press-conference-may-2007.html . June 20, 2008 .
  13. News: Detainee Transfer Announced. Department of Defense. 2008-10-31. 2008-11-01.

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