Hajiakbar Abdulghupur

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Hajiakbar Abdulghupur
Born: 1973 (age 34–35)
Ghulja, Xingiang Province, China
Detained at: Guantanamo
ID number: 282
Conviction(s): no charge, held in extrajudicial detention

Hajiakbar Abdulghupur is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 282. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism 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
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He is one of approximately two dozen Uyghur detainees accused of membership in the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement.[2]

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".[3]

The brief biography of Hajiakbar Abdulghupur stated:

Hajiakbar Abdul Ghupur is a 30-year-old Chinese citizen. who is an ethnic Uighur from the Xinjiang province of China. Ghupur claims to have traveled to Afghanistan in July 2003 to escape Chinese Government treatment of Muslims. He was last interviewed in mid 2003 He has no reported incidents of violence in his discipline history. Ghupur 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 identified captive 282 as "Hajiakbar Abdul Ghupur".

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[edit] Combatant Status Review

CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.
CSRT notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

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".

The trailer where CSRTs were convened.
The trailer where CSRTs were convened.

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". Hajiakbar Abdulghupur among the two-thirds of prisoners who chose to participate in their tribunals.[4]

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment. Hajiakbar Abdulghupur's memo accused him of the following: [5] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

The allegations Abdulghupur faced during his Tribunal were:[6]

'The detainee is associated with the Taliban or al Qaida::#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.
  1. The detainee lived at the Uigher training camp from July to October 2001.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. While at the Uighur camp the detainee received training on the Kalashnikov rifle, a handgun, and another weapon.
  5. 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.

[edit] Transcript

Abdulghupur chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[7] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published an eighteen page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.[8]

[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.[9] While a Board reviewed his status in 2005 no Board reviewed his status in 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 Ahmad Tourson.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo, Asia Times, November 4, 2004
  3. ^ Department of Defense, Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO, December 30, 2004
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ OARDEC (5 November 2004). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abdulghupur, Hajiakbar. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  6. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Hajiakbar Abdulghupur'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 65-82
  7. ^ OARDEC (date redacted). Summarized Statement pages 65-82. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  8. ^ "US releases Guantanamo files", The Age, April 4, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-15. 
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ OARDEC (July 17, 2007). Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees. United States Department of Defense. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  11. ^ 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.