On May 15, 2006, the
United States Department of Defense
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acknowledged that there have been 7 Uzbek detainees held in Guantanamo.
[list of prisoners (.pdf)]
, ''US Department of Defense
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'', May 15, 2006
The
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
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s were opened on January 11, 2002, at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
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, in
Cuba
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.
The Bush administration asserted that all detainees taken in the "
global war on terror" could be held there, in
extrajudicial
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Politically motivated
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detention, without revealing their names. So far as the detainee's families and friends would know, they would just disappear.
However, the
Associated Press
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had filed a
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request for the names of all the detainee.
The Department of Defense filed justifications for why they should not be obliged to release the information the Associated Press requested. They justified keeping the information secret not to protect the United States "
national security
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", but merely because they were concerned to protect the detainee's privacy.
The Department of Defense exhausted their legal appeals and were forced, by a court order, to release the identities of all the Guantanamo detainees.
List of Uzbeks whom the DoD has acknowledged they have held in Guantanamo
On September 26, 2009, the Department of Justice announced that three men were transferred from Guantanamo.
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One of the men was
Yemeni detainee Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, who was repatriated to
Yemen
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.
The two other men were transferred to Ireland. Their names were withheld.
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Reuters
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The agency ...
'' reported that Ireland had previously inquired into taking two
Uzbek detainees.
On September 27, 2009, the Associated Press reported that one of the two men was "31-year-old Oybek Jabbarov".
Dermot Ahern
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, the
Minister of Justice
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, asked reporters to respect the men's privacy.
Switzerland accepted one former Uzbekistani detainee on January 26, 2010.
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His name was withheld.
See also
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Furkat Kasimovich Yusupov
Furkat Kasimovich Yusupov (born 1980) is a citizen of Uzbekistan who was arrested for, charged with, and tried for terrorism offenses in 2004.
Yusupov was described as being the leader of a group that executed a series of terrorist bombing ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uzbekistani Detainees Held In Guantanamo
Lists of Guantanamo Bay detainees by nationality
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United States–Uzbekistan relations