Moyuballah Homaro or Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov is a citizen of
Tajikistan
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who was held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the
United States
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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
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s, in
Cuba
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.
[The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story]
''Mother Jones
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'', September/October 2006 issue According to the Department of Defense, he was born on October 6, 1980, in
Alisurkhan, Tajikistan. His
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History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from ...
was 729.
Moyuballah Homaro was transferred to Tajikistan on March 31, 2004.
Identity
The first official list, of all Guantanamo detainees,
who had been held in military custody, the
US Department of Defense
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released, on May 15, 2006, listed his name as
Moyuballah Homaro.
[list of prisoners (.pdf)]
''US Department of Defense
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'', May 15, 2006
Capture and Guantanamo detention
Umarov traveled to Pakistan, as a refugee from Tajikistan's civil war, in 1994, where he finished his education.
In May 2001, when he graduated, a new Tajikistan government gave him a passport. Umarov returned to Pakistan, seeking work, on his legitimate passport. He was caught up in round up of foreigners following Pakistan's first suicide bombing, in May 2002. Pakistan handed him over to the Americans, and he spent several months in Bagram, and two years in Afghanistan.
When Umarov was eventually released from Guantanamo the Americans did not return his passport. Instead they gave him a letter saying they no longer regarded him as a threat. Umarov says this letter, and his lack of real identity documents is a constant source of threats to his safety.
Bagram
Umarov spent several months in an American prison in
Bagram airport
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.
In two months at bagram, Umarov says, he had only one interrogation -- with an American woman who questioned him in Persian
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and seemed confused as to why he was there. 'We were along in the room,' he says. 'She checked my documents and listened to my answers, then told me I wasn't guilty.' ...
Guantanamo
Nevertheless Umarov,
Abdughaffor and
Mazharuddin,
the two other Tajik men he was captured with, were sent to Guantanamo in early August 2002.
See also
*
Bagram torture and prisoner abuse
In 2005, '' The New York Times'' obtained a 2,000-page United States Army investigatory report concerning the homicides of two unarmed civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. military personnel in December 2002 at the Bagram Theater Internment Facil ...
References
Living people
Bagram Theater Internment Facility detainees
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
Year of birth missing (living people)
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