User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Tajik captives held in Guantanamo

On May 15 2006 the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik captives held in Guantanamo. The Guantanamo Bay detainment camps were opened on January 11 2002 at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. The Bush administration asserted that they could hold all captives taken in the "global war on terror" could be held there, in extrajudicial detention, without revealing their names. So far as the captive's families and friends would know, they would just disappear.

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

Press Reports

The magazine Mother Jones published a feature article, entitled: "The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story". The article was based on an interview with Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov, a Tajik from a village named Alisurkhon. Umarov said he and a neighbor from his village, were captured while visiting a third neighbor from his village at his University in Pakistan. Umarov named his two neighbors, Mazharudin and Abdughaffor. He said they too had been sent to Guantanamo. Mazharudin is named on the official list, but Abdughaffor is not. Umarov told Mother Jones that Mazharudin and Abdughaffor were released on March 31 2004 at the same time he was.

On January 19 2007 the Government of Tajikistan acknowledged that the United States had transferred ten Tajikis from Guantanamo to Tajikistant. The Government of Tajikistan did not release the identities of the transferred men. The Government of Tajikistan also said they did not know how many Tajikis remain in Guantanamo.

The US Department of Defense acknowledged holding twelve Tajikis in Guantanamo. The DoD acknowledged convening Combatant Status Review Tribunals for five of the Tajikis held in Guantanamo. The DoD said they convened a Combatant Status Review Tribunal for every captive who was still in Guantanamo in 2005.

List of Tajikis who the DoD has acknowledged they have held in Guantanamo

ID	name	page number	notes
76	Rukniddin Fayziddinovich Sharipov	ARB transcript 107-112	Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp. Alleged to have been issued a Taliban uniform.
77	Mehrabanb Fazrollah	CSRT allegations 71	Alleged to have fought with the Taliban.
83	Yusef Nabied	.	No Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened.
90	Sobit Valikhonovich	.	No record that he participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
208	Maroof Saleemovish Salehove	.	No record that he participated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
257	Omar Hamzayavich Abdulayev	CSRT allegations 42 CSRT Transcripts 1	Allegedly captured carrying suspicious documents. Allegedly studied at a madrassa.
641	Abdul Karim Irgashive	.	No Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened.
665	Sadee Eideov	.	No Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened.
729	Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov	.	Released on March 31 2004.
731	Mazharudin	.	Released on March 31 2004.
732	Shirinov Ghafar Homarovich	.	No Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened.
1005	Bashir Ahmad	.	No Combatant Status Review Tribunal was convened.