Abdul Razakah

Abdul Razak
Born Atush, China
Detained at Guantanamo
Alternate name Abdal Razak Qadir
ISN 219
Status Still held in Guantanamo

Abdul Razak is a citizen of China held for more than nine years in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]

Joint Task Force Guantanamo reported that Razak was born in Atush, China but did not publish a birth date for him.

He is one of the 22 individuals from the Uighur ethnic group, held in Guantanamo.[2][3][4] Human rights critics say the Uyghurs were innocent bystanders. US District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina reviewed the evidence justifying Razak's detention for his habeas corpus petition in 2008.[5] Urbina ruled Razakah's detention was unlawful and ordered him set free in the United States on October 8, 2008. The Justice Department appealed Urbina's ruling.

Writ of habeas corpus

A writ of habeas corpus, Abdal Razak Qadir v. George W. Bush, was submitted on Abdul Razak Qadir's behalf.[6]

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" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. ^ Bill Delahunt, Sabin Willett (2009-04-02). "Innocent detainees need a home". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/. Retrieved 2010-07-26. "Seventeen Uighurs are entering their eighth year of imprisonment at Guantanamo." 
  3. ^ "17 Innocent Uighurs Detained at Guantánamo Ask Supreme Court for Release". Center for Constitutional Rights. http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant%C3%A1namo-ask-supreme-court-release. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  4. ^ Adam Wolfe (2004-11-04). "China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo". Asia Times. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html. Retrieved 2010-07-26. "The Pentagon wants to release more than 12 of some two dozen Uighur detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but Washington for strategic and political reasons will not return the detainees, captured in Afghanistan, to China, which considers them terrorists and Xinjiang separatists." 
  5. ^ "Guantanamo Habeas Scorecard". Center for Constitutional Rights. 2010-05-26. http://www.ccrjustice.org/files/2010-05-26%20Habeas%20SCORECARD%20Website%20Version.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  6. ^ "Abdal Razak Qadir v. George W. Bush". United States Department of Defense. 4 July 2007. pp. pages 63–98. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1344-1475.pdf#63. Retrieved 2007-12-18. 

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