Abdul Karim Irgashive

Abdul Karim Irgashiveis a citizen of Tajikistan held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 641. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on May 7 1965, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Identity

*There is a Guantanamo captive called Abdul Karim Irgashive named on the official list released on May 15 2007. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] But there is no captive named Abdul Karim Irgashive named on the official list released on April 20 2007, meaning that Abdul Karim Irgashive was released or repatriated prior August 2004, when the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants started to convene Combatant Status Review Tribunals. [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]
*There is a Guantanamo captive called Abdul-Karim Ergashev who is reported to have been released in 2005, so he should have had his "enemy combatant" status reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.cite news
url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/a48192a0-3543-4eab-a3b6-2b558f8edaa0.html
date=Thursday, January 13, 2005
title=Tajikistan: Released Guantanamo Detainee Says He Was Abused
author=Abduqayum Qayumov, Golnaz Esfandiari [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rferl.org%2Ffeaturesarticle%2F2005%2F01%2Fa48192a0-3543-4eab-a3b6-2b558f8edaa0.html&date=2008-05-19 mirror] ] cite news
publisher=The Times of Central Asia
date=Tuesday July 24, 2007
title=Ex-Guantanamo prisoner from Tajikistan to sue G. W. Bush
url=http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100010243&docId=l:646133647&start=62
accessdate=2007-08-03] cite news
publisher=Ferghana Information Agency
author=Shukhrat Shodiyev
url=http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2057&PHPSESSID=72402ecceca866f46045ea31540c2c2e
title=Tajikistan: Guantanamo ex-prisoner will sue George W. Bush and the Pentagon
date=July 22 2007
accessdate=2007-08-12 [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenews.ferghana.ru%2Farticle.php%3Fid%3D2057%26PHPSESSID%3D72402ecceca866f46045ea31540c2c2e&date=2008-05-19 mirror] ] There is, however, no one listed on either official list. [http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", May 15 2006] [http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf list of prisoners (.pdf)] , "US Department of Defense", April 20 2006]

Press reports

On July 22 2007 a former Tajik captive named Abdul-Karim Ergashev attempted to sue President Bush for his unjustified extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo.cite news
publisher=Ferghana Information Agency
author=Shukhrat Shodiyev
url=http://enews.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=2057&PHPSESSID=72402ecceca866f46045ea31540c2c2e
title=Tajikistan: Guantanamo ex-prisoner will sue George W. Bush and the Pentagon
date=July 22 2007
accessdate=2007-08-12] Ergashev described himself as a political refugee, who had been staying in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, when the Americans initiated the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan.The "Ferghana Information Agency" reports:quotation
"I was a driver in their camp, Everyone scattered when the Americans invaded Afghanistan and bombardments began. I wanted to go home too but couldn't because I did not have any papers or even money. Closer to the end of winter 2002, I drifted to the town of Tahor and the rais or chairman of a nearby village offered me a job. He said I would become his personal driver. I said "Why not?". It was a chance to earn my fare back. The man said the auto was waiting in one of the "kishlaks" (settlements) in Mazar-e-Sharif and we went there to collect it. The man brought me to some household and asked me to wait while he went and fetched the keys. The Afghani police broke into the building as soon as he left. They had me handcuffed and blindfolded in no time at all and turned me over to the waiting Americans. The Americans had been waiting nearby, you know. They ordered me to don a special blue coverall marking me as a POW. It occurred to me then that they had deliberately left me in the house in order to sell me to the Americans as a terrorist or Talib... I was taken to the city of Bagram where I was imprisoned with very many others for March-May 2002. It was Kandahar after that and finally Guantanamo, in September that year."

The "Ferghana Information Agency" reports that Ergashev claims he acquired Hepatitis C in Guantanamo, and had his gall bladder removed without explanation.

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