Emam Abdulahat

Infobox WoT detainees
subject_name = Emam Abdulahat

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date_of_birth = Birth date|1977|6|1
place_of_birth = Konashahar, China
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detained_at = Guantanamo
id_number = 295
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charge = no charge, held in extrajudicial detention
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status = Has not been cleared for release, but has not had any annual Review Boards convened to review his detention.
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Emam Abdulahat is a citizen of China, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 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 detainee ID number is 295.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on June 1 1977, in Konashahar, China.

Abdulahat is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.

Abdulahat testified, as a witness, during Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_20_1606-1644.pdf#26 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Abdullah Abdulqadirakhum's"Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 26-39]

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The information paper also identified him as "Abd Al Samad Abd Al Ahad".

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#38
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Abdulahat, Emam
date=8 November 2004
pages=pages 38-39
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-19] The memo listed the following allegations against him:

:"'a The detainee is associated with al Qaida.:#The detainee arrived in Afghanistan from China, via Pakistan, in August 2001.:#The detainee trained in a military training camp in Afghanistan.:#The detainee completed weapons training.:#The detainee stayed in a Uighur guesthouse in Jalalabad.:#The detainee traveled to Afghanistan without a passport.

:"'b The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.:#The detainee was in Tora Bora for approximately three months during the U.S. bombing campaign.

Transcript

Abdulahat chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_43_2811-2921.pdf#99 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Emam Abdulahat's"Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 99-111]

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_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf
title=Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=August 9 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] 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] There is no record that a Board reviewed his status in 2005 or 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 Emam Abdulahat.

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