Hajiakbar Abdulghupur is a citizen of

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, who was held in the United States

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 for many years. The DoD estimates that Abdulghupur was born in 1973 in Ghulja, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. He was one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years, even though it became clear early on that they were innocent. He won his '' habeas corpus'' case in 2008. Judge

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 unlawful and ordered for him to be set free in the United States. In December 2013, after having been held at Guantanamo for over eleven years, Abdulghupur was transferred to Slovakia.

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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 (June 2010)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdulghupur, Hajiakbar Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Uyghurs Living people Year of birth uncertain 1973 births