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On May 15 2006 the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik captives held in Guantanamo.[1] The Guantanamo Bay detainment camps were opened on January 11 2002 at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. The Bush administration asserted that they could hold all captives taken in the "global war on terror" could be held there, in extrajudicial detention, without revealing their names. So far as the captive's families and friends would know, they would just disappear.

However, the Associated Press had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the names of all the captives. The Department of Defense filed justifications for why they should not be obliged to release the information the Associated Press. They justified keeping the information secret not to protect the United States "national security", but merely because they were concerned to protect the captive's privacy.

Press Reports

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The magazine Mother Jones published a feature article, entitled: "The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story".[2] The article was based on an interview with Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov, a Tajik from a village named Alisurkhon. Umarov said he and a neighbor from his village, were captured while visiting a third neighbor from his village at his University in Pakistan. Umarov named his two neighbors, Mazharudin and Abdughaffor. He said they too had been sent to Guantanamo. Mazharudin is named on the official list, but Abdughaffor is not. Umarov told Mother Jones that Mazharudin and Abdughaffor were released on March 31 2004 at the same time he was.

On January 19 2007 the Government of Tajikistan acknowledged that the United States had transferred ten Tajikis from Guantanamo to Tajikistant.[3][4] The Government of Tajikistan did not release the identities of the transferred men. The Government of Tajikistan also said they did not know how many Tajikis remain in Guantanamo.

The US Department of Defense acknowledged holding twelve Tajikis in Guantanamo.[1] The DoD acknowledged convening Combatant Status Review Tribunals for five of the Tajikis held in Guantanamo.[5] The DoD said they convened a Combatant Status Review Tribunal for every captive who was still in Guantanamo in 2005.

List of Tajikis who the DoD has acknowledged they have held in Guantanamo

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ID name page number notes
76 Rukniddin Fayziddinovich Sharipov
ARB transcript

107-112

  • Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.[6]
  • Alleged to have been issued a Taliban uniform.
77 Mehrabanb Fazrollah
CSRT allegations 71
  • Alleged to have fought with the Taliban.[7]
83 Yusef Nabied .
90 Sobit Valikhonovich .
208 Maroof Saleemovish Salehove .
257 Omar Hamzayavich Abdulayev
CSRT allegations 42
CSRT Transcripts 1
  • Allegedly captured carrying suspicious documents.[8]
  • Allegedly studied at a madrassa.
641 Abdul Karim Irgashive .
665 Sadee Eideov .
729 Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov .
731 Mazharudin .
732 Shirinov Ghafar Homarovich .
1005 Bashir Ahmad .

References

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  1. ^ a b list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15 2006
  2. ^ a b c The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story, Mother Jones, September/October 2006 issue
  3. ^ "US releases 10 Tajiks from Guantanamo prison". sharewatch. January 19 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "US financial assistance to Tajikistan in 2006 totaled over $30 mln". Regnum. January 21 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20 2006
  6. ^ transcript (.pdf) from Rukniddin Fayziddinovich Sharipov's Administrative Review Board - pages 107-112
  7. ^ Summary of Evidence (.pdf) prepared for Mehrabanb Fazrollah's Combatant Status Review Tribunals - September 30 2004 - page 71
  8. ^ Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Omar Hamzayevich Abdulayev's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - November 3 2004 - page 42