List of Uzbekistani detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 7 Uzbek detainees held in Guantanamo. [1] The Guantanamo Bay detainment camps were opened on January 11, 2002, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. The Bush administration asserted that all detainees taken in the "global war on terror" could be held there, in extrajudicial detention, without revealing their names. So far as the detainee's families and friends would know, they would just disappear.

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However, the Associated Press had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the names of all the detainee. The Department of Defense filed justifications for why they should not be obliged to release the information the Associated Press requested. They justified keeping the information secret not to protect the United States "national security", but merely because they were concerned to protect the detainee's privacy.

The Department of Defense exhausted their legal appeals and were forced, by a court order, to release the identities of all the Guantanamo detainees.

List of Uzbeks whom the DoD has acknowledged they have held in Guantanamo

isn namearrival
date		departure
date		notes
22Shakhrukh Hamiduva2002-01-142009-09-27
  • Child refugee. [2]
  • Claims abuse in custody.
84 Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev 2002-02-072006-12-15
452Oybek Jamoldinivich Jabbarov2002-06-162009-09-27
  • Transferred to Ireland with another Uzbek on September 26, 2009. [4]
454Mohammed Sadiq Adam2002-02-072004-03-14
  • Transferred from Guantanamo on March 14, 2004. [5]
455Ali Sher Hamidullah2002-06-18
  • Acknowledged fleeing Uzbekistan and settling in Afghanistan, with his family.
  • Cleared for release on December 23, 2005.
672Zakirjan Asam2002-06-082006-11-17
675Kamalludin Kasimbekov2002-06-142010-07-22
  • Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp. [10]
  • Inadequate transcript – only two of at least half a dozen allegations were recorded in the transcript.

On September 26, 2009, the Department of Justice announced that three men were transferred from Guantanamo. [11] [12] One of the men was Yemeni detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, who was repatriated to Yemen. The two other men were transferred to Ireland. Their names were withheld. Reuters reported that Ireland had previously inquired into taking two Uzbek detainees.

On September 27, 2009, the Associated Press reported that one of the two men was "31-year-old Oybek Jabbarov". [4] Dermot Ahern, the Minister of Justice, asked reporters to respect the men's privacy.

Switzerland accepted one former Uzbekistani detainee on January 26, 2010. [13] [14] His name was withheld.

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  1. ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf) Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , US Department of Defense , May 15, 2006
  2. ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 70-80
  3. ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47
  4. 1 2 Shawn Pgatchnik (2009-09-27). "2 Uzbeks from Guantanamo prison arrive in Ireland". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24.
  5. ↑ OARDEC (2008-10-09). "Consolidated chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased" (PDF). Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  6. ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Zakirjan Asam's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - mirror - pages 1-14
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  8. ↑ Gabriel Haboubi (March 23, 2007). "Ex-detainees claim abuse after US tribunal ruled them not 'enemy combatants'". The Jurist . Retrieved 2007-04-01.
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  10. ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf) Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine , from Kamalludin Kasimbekov's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 36-45
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