Rasul Kudayev

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subject_name = Rasul Kudayev


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date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1982
place_of_birth = Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
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date_of_release = 2004-01-03
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citizenship = Russia
detained_at = Guantanamo
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Repatriated
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Rasul Kudayev is a Russian citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.cite news
url=http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/09-08-2003/3507-guantanamo-0
title=Eight Russian Citizens Kept at Guantanamo Base
publisher=Pravda
date=2003-09-08
accessdate=2008-07-26
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenglish.pravda.ru%2Frussia%2Fpolitics%2F09-08-2003%2F3507-guantanamo-0&date=2008-07-26 mirror] ] Kudayev is a Muslim from the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

In 1995, while a young teenager, Kudayev won a wrestling championship. [http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/09-08-2003/3507-guantanamo-0 Eight Russian Citizens Kept at Guantanamo Base] , "Pravda", September 8 2003] His mother and brother stated that, in 2000, while still a teenager, Kudayev traveled to Central Asia to advance his sports career.

Kudayev, and six other Russian Guantanamo detainees (including Ruslan Odizhev who also lived in Nalchik), were repatriated to Russia, where they faced charges of illegal border crossing, being members of a criminal group and being a mercenary in an armed conflict, but were released without trial shortly after.cite news
url=http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/96/382/12191_Taliban.html
title=US handed Russia seven Russian members of Taliban
publisher=Pravda
date=2004-01-03
accessdate=2008-07-26
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenglish.pravda.ru%2Faccidents%2F21%2F96%2F382%2F12191_Taliban.html&date=2008-07-26 mirror] ]

In 2005, he was arrested in Nalchik for allegedly taking part in the preparation of the rebel raid, and participation in the attack itself (taking the road police post in Khasanya suburb of Nalchik).

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