Hajiakbar Abdulghupur

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Hajiakbar Abdulghupur is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.^[1] Abdulghupur's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 282. American intelligence analysts estimate that Abdulghupur was born in 1973 in Ghulja, Xingiang Province, China.

Abdulghupur is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.^[2]

Main article: Uighur detainees in Guantanamo

1 Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- 1.1 allegations
- 1.2 testimony
2 References

[edit] Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held in a small trailer, the same width, but shorter, than a mobile home. The Tribunal's President sat in the big chair. The detainee sat with his hands and feet shackled to a bolt in the floor in the white, plastic garden chair. A one way mirror behind the Tribunal President allowed observers to observe clandestinely. In theory the open sessions of the Tribunals were open to the press. Three chairs were reserved for them. In practice the Tribunal only intermittently told the press that Tribunals were being held. And when they did they kept the detainee's identities secret. In practice almost all Tribunals went unobserved.

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.

Abdulghupur chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.^[3]

[edit] allegations

The allegations Abdulghupur faced during his Tribunal were:^[4]

a. -- The general summary of the allegations that establish an association with terrorism were missing from the transcript. --

The detainee traveled from China to Pakistan in April or May 2001. In July 2001 the detainee traveled to Afghanistan to receive military training at the Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains.
The detainee lived at the Uigher training camp from July to October 2001.
The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) operated facilities in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in which Uighur expatriates underwent small arms training. These camps were funded by Bin Laden and the Taliban.
ETIM is one of the most militant of the ethnic Uighur separatist groups, and it is suspected of having training and financial ties to al Qaida.
While at the Uighur camp the detainee received training on the Kalashnikov rifle, a handgun, and another weapon.
Following the destruction of the training camp by the United States forces bombing campaign, the detainee traveled to Parachinar, Pakistan where he was turned over to Pakistan authorities.