extrajudicial
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detention in the
United States
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Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
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s. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 573. The
Department of Defense
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reports that Akhmyarov was born on October 24, 1979, in
Chelyabinsk
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,
Russia
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.
He was repatriated to Russia in early 2004, prior to the institution of the
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as " enemy combatants". The CSRTs were establi ...
s, in July 2004. He was subsequently released from Russian custody.
On August 27, 2005, Akhmyarov and another former Guantanamo detainee
Airat Vakhitov
Aiat Nasimovich Vahitov, also spelled Ayrat Wakhitov or Vahidov () is an ethnic Tatar citizen of Russia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. He was repatriated with six other Russi ...
, were reported to have been seized by Russian security officials in Moscow and jailed in
Tatarstan
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. According to Geydar Dzhemal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, 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.