List of Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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List of Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo Bay
NationalityKazakhstani
NamesIlkham Turdbyavich Batayev
Abdulrahim Kerimbakiyev
Yakub Abahanov
Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov
StatusRepatriated

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding four Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo. [1] A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008, the camp population stand at approximately 285.

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Release negotiations

Kazakhstan's First Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Abuseitov confirmed, on January 16, 2003, that Kazakh security officials had interviewed two Kazakhstan citizens in Guantanamo. [2] He described the two detainees as "young", and stated that Kazakhstan had appealed to the USA for their release.

In November 2003, the Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst reported that Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev Kazakhstan had been negotiated with the USA for the release of its citizens. [3] The Minister stated:

... the situation is complicated by the admissions of some of the prisoners that they took part in military operations with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo

isn namepage numbersnotes
84 Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev
CSRT allegations 4
CSRT transcript 47-53
ARB 1 transcript 116
ARB 1 decision 58-64
  • Allegedly kidnapped and forced to prepare food for Taliban soldiers.
  • Repatriated on 18 December 2006. [4]
521 Abdulrahim Kerimbakiyev
CSRT transcript 1-9
ARB allegations 43
ARB transcript 136-137
  • Accused of being related to a terrorist suspect. [5]
  • Accused of living in government housing in Afghanistan. [6]
  • His statement to the Board is missing from his transcript. [7]
  • Released December 21, 2006. [8]
526 Yakub Abahanov
CSRT allegations 48
ARB allegations 85-88
ARB decision 101-107
528 Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov
CSRT transcript 7-11

Ambassador Ordway's 22 May 2007 press briefing

American ambassador John M. Ordway addressed the Kazakhstani detainees in Guantanamo during a May 22, 2007, press briefing at the Kazakhstani Press Club. [12] Ordway confirmed that one detainee the USA considered a citizen of Kazakhstan remained in Guantanamo. He stated that it was against US policy to compensate former detainees. He asserted detainees were not detained any longer than necessary for US national security.

Question:

What can you tell us about the fourth Kazakhstani still detained at the Guantanamo facility. Will the United States pay compensation if it turns out he violated no laws and was detained without cause?

Ambassador Ordway:

With regard to the issue of compensation, we do not pay compensation for any of the enemy combatants who were in the Guantanamo facility.

With regard to the Kazakhstani citizen who is still there, as was the case before, I can't provide any details other than to say that we have been and will continue to be in discussion with the government of Kazakhstan about any possible release or return of their citizens.

There are many of these people, the reason they are released is because we do not have any particular charges. They were enemy combatants who were found in Afghanistan in circumstances that they were fighting with or participating with forces that were fighting U.S. forces and therefore were captured as enemy combatants. There was then a process to determine whether they represented any future threat. If not, as was the case with the three who were released, they are then released.

We also had a very extensive process to determine when there was no longer any reason to hold those people because they represented no further threat. That is exactly what happened with the three who were released and returned to Kazakhstan. They were no further threat.

October 2008 repatriation

On October 31, 2008, the Department of Defense announced two detainees were repatriated to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. [13] The DoD withheld the two men's names.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Administrative Review Board</span>

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Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi is a Yemeni citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from May 3, 2002, to January 21, 2016. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 578. The Department of Defense reports that Al Suadi was born on June 16, 1974, in Milhan, Yemen.

Hajji Shahzada is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Shahzada's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 952. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Shahzada was born in 1959, in Belanday, Afghanistan.

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Dawut Abdurehim is a Uyghur refugee best known for the more than seven years he spent in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Abdulrehim is one of 22 Uighurs who have been held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.

Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Alkinani is a citizen of Egypt who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 287. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reported that he was born on October 28, 1956, in Shubrakass Egypt.

Shawali Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan, who had been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 899. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Ali Abdul Motalib Awayd Hassan Al Tayeea is a citizen of Iraq who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 111. The Department of Defense reports that Al Tayeea was born in Baghdad, Iraq. The Department of Defense provided a birthday, or an estimated year of birth, for all but 22 of the 759 detainees. Al Tayeea is one of those 22. He was repatriated on January 17, 2009, after more than seven years without ever been charged.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohammed Fenaitel Mohamed Al Daihani</span>

Mohammed Fenaitel Mohamed Al Daihani is a citizen of Kuwait who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. Al Daihani's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 229. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that Al Daihani was born on November 4, 1965, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Al Dehani was repatriated without charges on November 2, 2005.

Faris Muslim al Ansari is a citizen of Afghanistan who was seventeen years old when captured and held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 253. American intelligence analysts estimate that Al Ansari was born in 1984 in Mukala, Yemen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel</span> Yemeni former U.S. prisoner

Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel is a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 498. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that he was born in 1978, in Ta'iz, Yemen.

Abdul Majid Muhammed is a citizen of Iran who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Hajji Sahib Rohullah Wakil is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 798. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1962, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He has since been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the American wing of the Pol-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. On November 18, 2019 the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated him for supporting activities of the ISIS branch in Afghanistan.

The Mansehra Jihad training camp in Qandahar is asserted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts to have been an Afghan training camp tied to terrorism.

Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud al Hami is a citizen of Tunisia, who was formerly held for over seven years without charge or trial in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 892. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on 14 March 1969, in Tunisia.

Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi (1968-2015) was a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 152. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate Al Khalaqi was born in 1968, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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 . Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  2. ↑ "Kazakhstan to appeal to U.S. to release Guantanamo detainees". Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst. February 2, 2003. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  3. ↑ "Kazakhstan inquiries about its citizen at Guantanamo". Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst. November 25, 2003. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  4. ↑ "Perkins Coie Pro Bono Client Ihlkham Battayav Released from Guantanamo". Perkins Cole. December 18, 2006. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  5. ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-9
  6. ↑ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev Administrative Review Board , May 2, 2005 - page 43
  7. ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev's Administrative Review Board hearing - pages 136-137
  8. 1 2 3 "Three ex-Guantánamo detainees free in Kazakhstan". The St. Petersburg Times . Associated Press. 2006-12-26. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  9. 1 2 Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 7-11
  10. ↑ OARDEC (18 October 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abahanov, Yakub" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
  11. 1 2 OARDEC (8 July 2005). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Abahanov, Yakub" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 85–87. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
  12. ↑ John M. Ordway (May 22, 2007). "Press Conference with Ambassador Ordway". American Embassy in Kazakhstan. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-03. With regard to the issue of compensation, we do not pay compensation for any of the enemy combatants who were in the Guantanamo facility.
  13. ↑ "Detainee Transfer Announced". Department of Defense. 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
  1. ↑ Countries of Citizenship of Guantanamo detainees from the New York Times
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