Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun is a
Uyghur refugee, who was held for more than seven years in
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.
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The
Department of Defense reports that Abdulqadirakhum was born on June 18, 1979, in
Xinjiang, China and assigned him the
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 ...
285.
Abdulqadirakhun was one of the 22
Uighurs held in Guantanamo. It was later learned that he was innocent of the claims against him.
17 Innocent Uighurs Detained at Guantánamo Ask Supreme Court for Release | Center for Constitutional Rights
'' Asia Times'', November 4, 2004 Ricardo Urbina
Ricardo M. Urbina (; born 1946) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Urbina earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1967. He received his ...
declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the United States. He was sent to Bermuda in June 2009 together with three other Uyghurs, Khalil Mamut
Khalil Mamut is a Uyghur refugee, imprisoned for seven years at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
The US Department of Defense estimated that Mamut was born in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, in 1977 and assigned him the Guan ...
, Huzaifa Parhat and Emam Abdulahat, on June 11, 2009.[
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References
External links
From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs
Andy Worthington October 9, 2008
Judge Ricardo Urbina’s unclassified opinion (redacted version)
MOTIONS/STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES BEFORE THE HONORABLE RICARDO M. URBINA
* Human Rights First
Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)
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Chinese Islamists
Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
1979 births
Living people
Uyghurs
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
People from Xinjiang