Ahmed Mohamed (Guantanamo Bay detainee)
| Ahmed Mohamed |
| Born |
May 1, 1978(1978-05-01)
Atush, China |
| Detained at |
Guantanamo |
| Alternate name |
Hammad Memet |
| ISN |
328 |
| Charge(s) |
No charge (wrongly imprisoned) |
| Status |
Still held in Guantanamo |
Ahmed Mohamed is a citizen of China, currently imprisoned in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]
He is one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it became clear early on that they were innocent.[2][3][4]
He won his habeas corpus in 2008. Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the United States. The government appealed, and the judges decided that he did not have the right to be released in the United States.[5]
As of today Ahmed Mohamed has been confined at the Guantanamo camps for 9 years, 9 months and 23 days. He arrived at Guantanamo on May 3, 2002.[6][7] Their attorney's translator claims they had been sold to the U.S. military by bounty hunters.[8]
References
- ^ http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/09/from-guantanamo-to-the-united-states-the-story-of-the-wrongly-imprisoned-uighurs/
- ^ Delahunt, Bill; Willett, Sabin (2009-04-02). "Innocent detainees need a home". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/.
- ^ http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant%C3%A1namo-ask-supreme-court-release
- ^ China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo, Asia Times, November 4, 2004
- ^ Spiegel, Peter, Chinese Muslims may remain at Guantanamo, court rules, Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2009
- ^ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21.
- ^ "Guantanamo Docket: Ahmed Mohamed". New York Times. 2008-11. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/328-ahmed-mohamed. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/05/201051981445278398.html
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| Currently held in Guantanamo |
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| Released to Albania in May 2006 |
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| Released to Bermuda in June 2009 |
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| Released to Palau in October 2009 |
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| Released to Switzerland in March 2010 |
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| Persondata |
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Mohamed, Ahmed |
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| Date of birth |
1978-05-01 |
| Place of birth |
Atush, China |
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