Tom Johnson (lawyer)

Tom Johnson is a Portland lawyer, working for the firm, Perkins Coie. [http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7873 Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader] , "Willamette Week", August 9 2006]

Johnson volunteered to serve as a lawyer to a Guantanamo detainee, a 33 year old citizen of Kazakhstan named Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev. [http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7873 Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader] , "Willamette Week", August 9 2006]

Batayev describes being kidnapped by fundamentalist muslims allied to the Taliban during a trip to Tajikstan to sell fruit, who then traded him to the Taliban, who used him as a kitchen slave. [http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7873 Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader] , "Willamette Week", August 9 2006] [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_10_1089-1144.pdf Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev's"Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - pages 47] Following the American bombing, everyone fled the Taliban camp where he was held. Batayev described fleeing and subsequently being captured by fundamentalist muslims allied to the USA in return for a bounty.

References

* [http://www.perkinscoie.com/bios/johnh.htm Biography at Perkins Coie]