Emam Abdulahat
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| Born: | June 1, 1977 Konashahar, China |
| Detained at: | Guantanamo |
| ID number: | 295 |
| Conviction(s): | no charge, held in extrajudicial detention |
| Status | Has not been cleared for release, but has not had any annual Review Boards convened to review his detention. |
Emam Abdulahat is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 295. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on June 1, 1977, in Konashahar, China.
Abdulahat is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.
Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[2]
He is one of approximately two dozen Uyghur detainees accused of membership in the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement.[3]
Documents released in response to the writ of habeas corpus Hassan Anvar v. George W. Bush contained a December 30 2004 memo which provided one-paragraph biographies of 22 Uyghur captives, and asserted they were all caught at an "ETIM training camp".[4]
The brief biography of Emam Abdulahat stated:
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- Enam Abdulahat is a 27-year-old Chinese citizen. who is an ethnic Uighur from the (sic) Konashahar China. Abdulahat was last interviewed on 10 August 2004. He had a disciplinary action on 6 October 2004 for being in possession of a triangular piece of metal. Abdulahat is suspected as being a probable member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). He is suspected of having received training in an ETIM training camp in Afghanistan.
The information paper also identified him as "Abd Al Samad Abd Al Ahad".
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[edit] Combatant Status Review
Initially the Bush administration asserted they could withhold the protections of the Geneva Conventions from captives in the War on Terror, while critics argued the Conventions obligated the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners. Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted Combatant Status Review Tribunals, to determine whether the captives met the new definition of an "enemy combatant".
From July 2004 through March 2005, a CSRT was convened to make a determination whether each captive had been correctly classified as an "enemy combatant". Emam Abdulahat among the two-thirds of prisoners who chose to participate in their tribunals.[5]
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. Emam Abdulahat's memo accused him of the following: [6] The memo listed the following allegations against him:
- a The detainee is associated with al Qaida.
- The detainee arrived in Afghanistan from China, via Pakistan, in August 2001.
- The detainee trained in a military training camp in Afghanistan.
- The detainee completed weapons training.
- The detainee stayed in a Uighur guesthouse in Jalalabad.
- The detainee traveled to Afghanistan without a passport.
- b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.
- The detainee was in Tora Bora for approximately three months during the U.S. bombing campaign.
[edit] Transcript
Abdulahat chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[7]
[edit] Testimony
[edit] Current status
Five Uyghurs, whose CSR Tribunals determined they had not been enemy combatants were transferred to detention in an Albanian refugee camp in 2006. A man who was born to Uyghur parents, in Saudi Arabia, and thus was considered a Uyghur, was nevertheless returned to Saudi Arabia. All the other Uyghurs remain in Guantanamo.
In September 2007 the Department of Defense released all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2006.[8][9] There is no record that a Board reviewed his status in 2005 or 2006.
In September 2007 the Department of Defense released the recommendation memos from 133 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2005 and the recommendation memos from 55 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2006.[10][11] No recommendation memos were released for Emam Abdulahat.
[edit] References
- ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 26-39
- ^ "China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo", Asia Times, November 4, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
- ^ Department of Defense, Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO, December 30, 2004
- ^ OARDEC, Index to Transcripts of Detainee Testimony and Documents Submitted by Detainees at Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo Between July 2004 and March 2005, September 4, 2007
- ^ OARDEC (8 November 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abdulahat, Emam pages 38-39. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
- ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Emam Abdulahat'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 99-111
- ^ OARDEC (August 9, 2007). Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ OARDEC (August 10, 2007). Index Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
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