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Ali Sher Hamidullah

Ali Sher Hamidullah is a citizen of Uzbekistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 455. Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born on November 19, 1974, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Ali Sher Hamidullah arrived in Guantanamo on June 16, 2002, and, according to the New York Times, he remains in Guantanamo, and has been held there for Template:For year month day.[2][3][4] According to historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, Switzerland granted him asylum, due to his fears he would be executed if he returned to Uzbekistan.[5][6] According to historian Worthington Ali Sher Hamidullah was warned by Uzbekistani security officials the Bush administration allowed to interrogate the Uzbekistani captives, that he would be killed if he were to return to Uzbekistan.[7][8] Worthington notes that he had been cleared in 2005, and was held a further four years because it took the USA another four years to find a nation that would offer him a home.

Combatant Status Review

Main article: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations:

Allegations

The allegations presented to his Tribunal were [9]:

The detainee is associated with the Taliban:
  1. The detainee is a citizen of Uzbekistan.
  2. The detainee arrived in Afghanistan in 1999 via Azerbaijan and Iran.
  3. The detainee is associated with the Taliban.
  4. The detainee is possibly associated with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
  5. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a terrorist organization associated with the Taliban.

Transcript

There is no record that Ali Sher Hamidullah chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

Administrative Review Board hearing

Main article: Administrative Review Board

Summary of Evidence memo

Template:Original research Template:Misleading The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board was released, with thousands of other documents, on September 4, 2007, due to Freedom of Information Act requests from the Associated Press.[10] The memo listed nine "primary factors favor[ing] continued detention" and six "primary factors favor release or transfer". New factors on the 2005 memo, that weren't on the 2004 memo included:

  • an allegation that he paid a bribe to be able to enter Afghanistan;
  • an allegation that the Taliban provided him with room, board, and a job;
  • an allegation that he had fought in Chechnya;
  • an allegation that he had provided interrogators with a false name;
  • a report that he has requested transfer to Turkey, or another country where a Turkish language is spoken, where he would like to open a liquor store.
  • a report that he denied ever engaging in hostilities.

Transcript

Ali Sher Hamidullah chose to participate in his Board hearing.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15.  16x16px Works related to List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 at Wikisource
  2. ↑ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/measurements/. Retrieved 2008-12-22.  mirror
  3. ↑ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21. 
  4. ↑ The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/455-ali-sher-hamidullah. 
  5. ↑ Andy Worthington (2010-07-31). "Who Are the Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Cape Verde, Latvia and Spain?". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/07/31/who-are-the-guantanamo-prisoners-released-in-cape-verde-latvia-and-spain/. Retrieved 2010-09-20. "Given that, at the start of the year, just two Uzbeks remained at Guantánamo, and that one of these men, Ali Sher Hamidullah, was reportedly the Uzbek rehoused in Switzerland on January 26, it seems likely that the man given a new home in Latvia is Kamalludin Kasimbekov, who was cleared for release in 2006 by a military review board under the Bush administration, but who continued to be held because of well-founded fears that he would be tortured if returned to his homeland."  mirror
  6. ↑ "Switzerland to shelter Uzbek inmate of Guantanamo". UZ News. 2009-12-18. Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uznews.net%2Fnews_single.php%3Flng%3Den%26sub%3D%26cid%3D31%26nid%3D12354&date=2010-11-22. 
  7. ↑ Andy Worthington. "The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (8) – Captured in Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andyworthington.co.uk%2Fthe-guantanamo-files-website-extras-8-captured-in-afghanistan%2F&date=2010-11-22. "He added that, if released, he “would attempt to find work as a chef or a liquor storeowner, which he has done in the past,” but stressed that he didn’t want to return to Uzbekistan, because three years before an Uzbek representative, who visited him in Guantánamo, “told me the only thing that waits for me in Uzbekistan is a bullet in my head.”" 
  8. ↑ Andy Worthington (2009-02-09). "Guantánamo’s Refugees". Future of Freedom Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-11-22. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fff.org%2Fcomment%2Fcom0902d.asp&date=2010-11-22. "Ali Sher Hamidullah, a drifter who explained in Guantánamo that the Uzbek intelligence agents who visited him told him that “the only thing that waits for me in Uzbekistan is a bullet in my head”;" 
  9. ↑ OARDEC (October 7, 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal --". United States Department of Defense. pp. page 4. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000400-000499.pdf#4. Retrieved 2007-10-04. 
  10. ↑ 16x16px Works related to Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Ali Sher Hamidullah at Wikisource, pages 43-44, October 6, 2005, accessdate=2007-10-04
  11. ↑ OARDEC (2005). "Summary of Administrative Review Board Proceedings for ISN 455". United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 185–192. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_4_1431-1455.pdf#185. Retrieved 2007-10-04. 

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