Almasm Rabilavich Sharipov (born 1971), also known as Shamil Hajiyev is a citizen of
Russia who was held in
extrajudicial detention
Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...
in the
United States's
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s, in
Cuba.
[
][
] Hajiyev is a
muslim
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from
Bashkortostan. Hajiyev served as a detective in
Tatarstan and a law student at
Uta State University, until his disappearance in 1999.
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Hajiyev, and six other Russian Guantanamo detainees, were repatriated to Russia, where they faced charges of illegal border crossing, being members of a criminal group and being a mercenary in an armed conflict.
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] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number An Internment Serial Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned to captives who come under control of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) during armed conflicts.
History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 209.
Repatriation
Sharipov, and seven other men were held in Guantanamo.[
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Sharipov was reported to have been repatriated on February 24, 2004, with six other Russian men.[
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Seizure of his privileged attorney client documents
On June 10, 2006 the Department of Defense reported that three captives died in custody.
The Department of Defense stated the three men committed suicide
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.
Camp authorities called the deaths "an act of asymmetric warfare", and suspected plans had been coordinated by the captive's attorneys—so they seized all the captives' documents, including the captives' copies of their habeas documents.[
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Since the habeas documents were privileged lawyer-client communication the
Department of Justice was compelled to file documents about the document seizures.
According to documents filed by the United States Department of Justice "Abdur Razakah's" documents were seized by camp authorities.
Those documents identified Abdur Razakah as captive 209.
Request for Asylum in the Netherlands
Shamil Khazhiev arrived in the Netherlands on March 26, 2007, where he requested political asylum.[
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In his request for asylum was based on his assertion that he was a ''"victim of harassment by Russian intelligence"''.
Russian security officials confirmed he had been ''"under watch"'', but denied the harassment claims.
Netherlands officials house Khazhiev in the Ter Apel refugee accommodation center.
Human Rights Watch reports the Netherlands did grant him asylum.[
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharipov, Almasm Rabilavich
1971 births
Living people
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released