Khalil Mamut is a
Uyghur refugee, imprisoned for seven years at 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.
The US Department of Defense estimated that Mamut was born in
Kashgar
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
, Xinjiang, China, in 1977 and assigned him the 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 ...
278.
Mamut is one of the 22
Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.
[China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo]
, '' Asia Times'', November 4, 2004
He won his
habeas corpus 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 as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the
United States. He was sent to
Bermuda in June 2009.
Sent to Bermuda
Abdul Helil Mamut,
and three other Uyghurs
Huzaifa Parhat,
Emam Abdulahat
Starting in 2002, the American government detained 22 Uyghurs in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The last 3 Uyghur detainees, Yusef Abbas, Hajiakbar Abdulghupur and Saidullah Khalik, were released from Guantanamo on December 29, 2013, and lat ...
and
Jalal Jalaladin
Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun is a Uyghur refugee, who was held for more than seven years in Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
The Department of Defense reports that Abdulqadirakhum was born on June 18, 1979, in Xinjiang, China and assigned h ...
were set free in Bermuda on June 11, 2009.
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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Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
People from Kashgar
Uyghurs
Living people
1977 births