Kamalludin Kasimbekov
Kamalludin Kasimbekov is a citizen of Uzbekistan, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 9, 1977, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 675.
As of August 5, 2011, Kamalludin Kasimbekov has been held at Guantanamo for nine years two months.[2]
Background
According to historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, Kasimbekov fears he will be tortured if he was returned to Uzbekistan.[3][4] Worthington reported that he had fled Uzbekistan when a friend killed a policeman. He reported that Kasimbekov was forcibly recruited into the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. He reported that Kasimbekov had been imprisoned for five months for trying to escape from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. He reported Kasimbekov was released from prison on September 16, 2001, provided he serve on the front line; that he had served on the front lines—delivering ammunition. But when the Americans bombed the position he used that as his opportunity to escape, and seek out forces to whom he could surrender.
References
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ^ "Kamalludin Kasimbekov - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/675-kamalludin-kasimbekov.
- ^ Andy Worthington (2009-02-10). "Guantánamo’s refugees". Archived from the original on 2010-02-07. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2F2009%2F02%2F10%2Fguantanamos-refugees%2F&date=2010-02-07. "...Kamalludin Kasimbekov, who had been forcibly recruited to join the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan..."
- ^ Andy Worthington. "The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (11) – The Last of the Afghans (Part One) and Six "Ghost Prisoners"". Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2Fthe-guantanamo-files-website-extras-11-the-last-of-the-afghans-part-one-and-six-ghost-prisoners%2F&date=2010-02-02. "Also held for several months before being handed over to US forces was Kamalludin Kasimbekov, a 24-year old Uzbek who is still in Guantánamo, despite being cleared for release in 2006, because of well-founded fears that he will be tortured if returned to his homeland. In his tribunal, Kasimbekov said that he and a friend had fled Uzbekistan after his friend accidentally killed a policeman while driving his car, and had ended up in a training camp run by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group aligned with the Taliban, where, he said, those in charge of the camp took away his military ID, which he needed to go home, and flew him and five or six others to Kabul, where he worked in an auto shop."
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