22 Uyghurs at Guantanamo

Anatomy of the group

• 18 of the Uyghur Guantanamo Bay detainees had been at a makeshift training camp near Jalalabad during their stay in Afghanistan.

  • Those in the camp had mostly ended up there in the quest for a safe place to live outside of China, having been pushed out of Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan where they had previously lived in fear of being targeted for extradition to China. While some came to the camp hoping to take part in an insurgency against the Chinese state, none had sought to partake in a global jihad.

• 2 others worked for Mäkhsum’s community as a food deliverer and a typist,

  • The typist and food deliverer saw themselves as employees rather than members, and neither knew whether the group had external support.

• 1 wound up among Mäkhsum’s people while searching for his brother,
• and 1 may have been a friend of Häsän Mäkhsum from Kashgar in the 1990s, but had only recently arrived in Afghanistan.

Resources

• More information about all Guantanamo Detainees.
• Khalil Mamut’s testimony at a tribunal: Khalil Mamut’s testimony at a Tribunal
• Information about 4 of them who were released in 2006: Gitmo Files

Individuals

1. Edham Mamet
2. Arkin Mahmud
3. Ahmad Tourson
4. Abdul Razak
5. Anwar Hassan
6. Ahmed Adil
7. Yusef Abbas
8. Akhdar Qasem Basit
9. Bahtiyar Mahnut
10. Khalil Mamut
11. Ayoub Mohammed
12. Saidullah Khalik
13. Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman
14. Hajiakbar Abdulghupur
15. Abu Bakr Qassim
16. Abdulla Abdulqadir
17. Dawut Abdurehim
18. Adil Abdulhelim
19. Salahidin Abdulahat
20. Ablikim Turahun
21. Ahmed Mohamed
22. Adel Noori