Rukniddin Sharipov

Rukniddin Sharipov
Born 1974 (age 37–38)
Leninabad, Tajikistan
Citizenship Tajikistan
Detained at Guantanamo
ISN 76

Rukniddin Sharipov or Sharopov (born on 15 March 1974 in Leninabad, Tajikistan) is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1]

Trial in Tajikistan

Sharipov and Abdumukite Vokhidov were to stand trial in Tajikistan.[2] They were charged with

The report notes that another former Guantanamo captive, Ibrohim Nasriddinov, had recently been sentenced to 23 years for similar charges.[2]

Rukhiddin Sharopov and Mukit Vokhidov received sentences of 17 years on August 18, 2007.[3] The two men were convicted of serving as mercenaries.

Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, on July 7, 2009, reported that Umar Abdulayev, the sole remaining Tajikistani, reported that a delegation of Tajikistani security officials threatened to retaliate against him Sharipov and Vohidov, unless they agreed to pretend to be militant jihadists, and report on real militant jihadists, following their repatriations.[4]

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