On May 15, 2006, the

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acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.list of prisoners (.pdf)
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'', May 15, 2006 The Guantanamo Bay detainment camps were opened on January 11, 2002, at the

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, in

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Press reports

In 2006, the magazine '' Mother Jones'' published a feature article titled "The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story".The Man Who Has Been to America: One Guantanamo detainee's story
'' Mother Jones'', 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.US Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...

(DoD) 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 establi ...

s for six of the Tajiks,list of prisoners (.pdf)
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'', April 20, 2006 a process followed for every detainee who was still in Guantanamo in 2005. On March 1, 2007, a press release announced that the DoD had returned three Tajiks back to Tajikistan. On August 7, 2007,

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reported that a former Tajik detainee, Mukit Vohidov, 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, Ibrohim Nasriddinov, had recently stood trial, been convicted, and received a 23-year sentence.

List of Tajiks held in Guantanamo

References

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