Rustam Akhmyarov is a Russian who was held in
extrajudicial
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detention in the
United States
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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
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s.
[
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History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 573. The
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reports that Akhmyarov was born on October 24, 1979, in
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...
,
Russia
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.
He was repatriated to Russia in early 2004, prior to the institution of the
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
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s, in July 2004. He was subsequently released from Russian custody.
On August 27, 2005, Akhmyarov and another former Guantanamo detainee
Airat Vakhitov, were reported to have been seized by Russian security officials in Moscow and jailed in
Tatarstan
The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
.
According to
Geydar Dzhemal
Geydar Dzhahidovich Dzhemal (russian: Гейда́р Джахи́дович Джема́ль, az, Heydər Cahid oğlu Camal, sometimes transliterated as Heydar Jamal; 6 November 1947 – 5 December 2016) was a Russian Islamic public figure, ac ...
, chairman of the
Islamic Committee of Russia
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, the security officials were concerned that when Akhmyarov and Airat Vakhitov visited the
United Kingdom
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, as guests of
Amnesty International
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, they would testify about
human rights
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abuses in Russia, not just in Guantanamo. He predicted the pair would be arrested on trumped up charges.
The pair were released from detention on September 2, 2005.
In 2007, Akhmyarov and three other former captives were reported to have gone into hiding because other former Guantanamo captives had been tortured while in Russian custody.
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See also
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Muhammad Saad Iqbal
References
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Living people
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
1979 births
People from Chelyabinsk