Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov

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Abdullah Toht Asinovich Magrupov is a citizen of Kazakhstan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] His detainee ID number is 528. The Department of Defense reports he was born in Semey, Kazakhstan, on May 14, 1983.

Main article: minors detained in the global war on terror

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
- 1.2 Yakub Abahanov
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct a competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

Magrupov chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[2]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Magrupov faced during his Tribunal were:

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban or al Qaida.

The detainee traveled from Semey, Kazakhstan, to Islamabad, Pakistan, in August 2001.
The detainee stayed at various madrassas during his travels around Pakistan.
The detainee admitted that he stayed at a house in Kabul, Afghanistan, that was owned by the Taliban.
The detainee stayed with two individuals in Kabul, Afghanistan, who worked as cooks for the Taliban,
The detainee, as well as those he was arrested with, had a cover story regarding their recruitment at a mosque in Kazakhstan.
The detainee was in Afghanistan when the United States bombing campaign began.
The detainee was captured by the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA) and turned over to U.S. custody in December 2001.

[edit] Yakub Abahanov

Magrupov said he traveled with two friends from his village, "Yakup" and "Tulkon". They were separated when their captors handed them over to the Americans, but he glimpsed Yakup in Guantanamo, about eight months prior to his Tribunal.

The official list of Guantanamo detainees, released on May 15, 2006, lists both Magrupov and Abahanov as being born in Semey, Kazakhstan.^[1]