Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1979|06|18
place_of_birth = Xinjiang China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 285
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum 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 285.The Department of Defense reports that Abdulqadirakhum was born on June 18 1979, in Xinjiang sic China.

Abdulqadirakhun is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uyghur 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 also identified him as "Jallal Adin Abd Al Rahman".

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

] Three chairs were reserved for members of the press, but only 37 of the 574 Tribunals were observed.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3902
title=Annual Administrative Review Boards for Enemy Combatants Held at Guantanamo Attributable to Senior Defense Officials
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-09-22] ]

Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were "lawful combatants" -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

ummary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Abdullah Abdulqadirrakhun'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal, on
3 November 2004.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#29
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Abdulqadirrakhun, Abdullah
date=3 November 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 29
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a. The detainee is a part of forces associated with al Qaida and the Taliban::#The detainee departed Kyrgyzstan sic and traveled to Afghanistan, via Pakistan, in July 2001.:#The detainee attended the Uigher training camp in the Tora Bora Mountains of Afghanistan from September through mid October 2001.

:"'b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.:#The detainee was present at, and participated in, the battle of Tora Bora.:#The detainee retreated from his position in the Tora Bora Mountains to Pakistan in late 2001, at which point Pakistani authorities apprehended him and his unit.

Testimony

Abdulqadirakhum chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_20_1606-1644.pdf#26
title=Summarized Statement
date=date redacted
pages=pages 26-39
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-04-23] On March 3 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a fourteen 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=]

According to Abdulqadirakhum there were no Taliban or al Qaida at the place the Uyghurs stayed.

Abdulqadirakhum acknowledged getting a limited amount of weapons training. Hs said he only fired once, a couple of bullets.He said his trainer was named Hassan Maksum. He was killed during the American bombing campaign. He said another Uyghur, named Abdul Haq was in charge of the camp.

The training camp was incomplete, with no latrines. The Uyghurs spent most of their time in construction.

witness

Emam Abdulahat testified on Abdulqadirakhum's behalf. He did not see Abdulqadirakhum receive any military training of engage in any hostilities.

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 him.

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