Yakub Abahanov

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Yakub Abahanov is a citizen of Kazakhstan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Abahanov's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 526.[1] The United States Department of Defense reports that Abahanov was born in Semeya, Kazakhstan.[1]

The Miami Herald reports that three of the four Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo were repatriated and set free on December 21, 2006. According to the Herald Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov, Ihlkham Battayev and Yakub Abahanov were the three released men.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c list of prisoners (.pdf), United States Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
  2. ^ "Three ex-Guantánamo detainees free in Kazakhstan", Miami Herald, December 21, 2006.