United States Department of Defense
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acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.list of prisoners (.pdf) ''
US Department of Defense
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Press reports
The magazine ''
Mother Jones
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Mother Jones
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'', September/October 2006 issue
The article was based on an interview with
Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov Moyuballah Homaro or Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Mazharudin
On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.US Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national secu ...
acknowledged holding twelve Tajiks in Guantanamo.
The DoD acknowledged convening
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were esta ...
US Department of Defense
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'', April 20, 2006
The DoD said they convened a Combatant Status Review Tribunal for every detainee who was still in Guantanamo in 2005.
A March 1, 2007, press release announced that the Department of Defense had returned three Tajiks back to Tajikistan.
On August 7, 2007, Radio Free Europe reported that a former Tajik detainee named "
Mukit Vohidov
Abdumuqit Vohidov is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention, for five years, in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 90. Vohidov was returned to his nati ...
" had been repatriated from Guantanamo to Tajikistani custody, in March 2007, and was about to stand trial.
The report also stated that another former Tajik detainee named "
Ibrohim Nasriddinov
On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.