Hajiakbar Abdulghupur

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subject_name = Hajiakbar Abdulghupur

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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1973
place_of_birth = Ghulja, Xingiang Province, China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 282
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Hajiakbar Abdulghupur is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] His Guantanamo Internee Security Number is 282.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate that Abdulghupur was born in 1973 in Ghulja, Xingiang Province, China.

Abdulghupur is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group. [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo] , "Asia Times", November 4 2004]

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The information paper identified captive 282 as "Hajiakbar Abdul Ghupur".

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#25
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abdulghupur, Hajiakbar
date=5 November 2004
page=page 25
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-25] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

The allegations Abdulghupur faced during his Tribunal were: [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_2_0098-0204.pdf Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Hajiakbar Abdulghupur's"Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 65-82] :"'The detainee is associated with the Taliban or al Qaida::#"The detainee traveled from China to Pakistan in April or May 2001. In July 2001 the detainee traveled to Afghanistan to receive military training at the Uighur camp in the Tora Bora mountains.:#"The detainee lived at the Uigher training camp from July to October 2001.:#"The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) operated facilities in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in which Uighur expatriates underwent small arms training. These camps were funded by Bin Laden and the Taliban.:#"ETIM is one of the most militant of the ethnic Uighur separatist groups, and it is suspected of having training and financial ties to al Qaida.:#"While at the Uighur camp the detainee received training on the Kalashnikov rifle, a handgun, and another weapon.:#"Following the destruction of the training camp by the United States forces bombing campaign, the detainee traveled to Parachinar, Pakistan where he was turned over to Pakistan authorities.

Transcript

Abdulghupur chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_2_0098-0204.pdf#65
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 65-82
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-25] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published an eighteen page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
title=US releases Guantanamo files
publisher=The Age
date=April 4, 2006
accessdate=2008-03-15
quote=]

Testimony

Current status

Five Uyghurs, whose CSR Tribunals determined they had not been enemy combatants were transferred to detention in an Albanian refugee camp in 2006. A man who was born to Uyghur parents, in Saudi Arabia, and thus was considered a Uyghur, was nevertheless returned to Saudi Arabia. All the other Uyghurs remain in Guantanamo.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense released all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] While a Board reviewed his status in 2005 no Board reviewed his status in 2006.

In September 2007 the Department of Defense released the recommendation memos from 133 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2005 and the recommendation memos from 55 of the Administrative Review Boards that convened in 2006.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_transfer_release_decision_ARB_Round_1.pdf
title=Index to Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=July 17 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf Index
title=Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 10 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] No recommendation memos were released for Ahmad Tourson.

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