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Airat Vakhitov

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Russian authorities released the detainees after investigations into whether they had broken any Russian laws. In 2005 he was once more detained in Russia under suspicion of organising terror acts in Tatarstan but released after two months, and immediately left to Middle East. In 2011 he published a
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The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the
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Airat Vakhitov was an imam in Tatarstan, who was imprisoned following a general round-up when Russian officials were cracking down on Chechens. He was temporarily freed, and fled Russia when he learned that security officials were looking for him. He said he was kidnapped by the forces of the
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published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Airat Vakhitov by telephone. Airat Vakhitov told his interviewers he was suffering ongoing mental problems, and that he was worried that if interviewers visited him in person he would be
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Airat Vakhitov said he was beaten in 1999 while in detention for two months on suspicion of participating in illegal armed formations in Chechnya (he was never charged). After that experience he decided to leave the country. "I knew my life wouldn't work out in Russia," he told Human Rights
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released its first full official list of all the Guantanamo detainees who were held in military custody. Airat Vakhitov's name is not on that list. The list includes an individual named
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pointed out had gone from Taliban custody to American custody. The Taliban had accused Vakhitov of spying for Russia, and imprisoned him for nearly three years. In
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because they refused to show their identification. He predicted that the pair would be arrested on trumped up charges, to curtail their human rights activities.
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reports he denounced his Russian citizenship, when he left Russia and sought refugee status, and that his current (2016) citizenship status was unknown.
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Vakhitov spoke publicly on June 28, 2005 about torture in Guantanamo when he announced he was planning to sue the United States for his mistreatment.
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video titled "39 ways of helping the jihad and taking part in it". In June 2016 he was arrested in Turkey for involvement in the
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List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
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Christopher Hope; Robert Winnett; Holly Watt; Heidi Blake (2011-04-27).
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was drafted on June 3, 2005. It was signed by camp commandant
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Airat Vakhitov was one of nine former Taliban prisoners the
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The pair were released from detention on September 2, 2005.
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Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
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Russian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
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Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
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Former Guantanamo Prisoners Freed From Russian Jail
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Index


Russian
extrajudicial detention
imam
Tatar
Tatar
Russia
extrajudicial detention
United States
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Cuba
Geydar Dzhemal
Islamic Committee of Russia
Rustam Akhmyarov
kidnapping
Department of Defense
Naberezhnye Chelny
Tatarstan
Atatürk Airport attack
Kandahar Five
American prisoners who were also Taliban prisoners
Associated Press
Kandahar Airfield
McClatchy News Service
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
WikiLeaks
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
Brigadier General
Jay W. Hood

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