Comments on: A Teenage Refugee Freed From Guantánamo And Released In Ireland

By: WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo

WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:54 +0000

[...] December 1983, probably seized in November 2001 (aged 17), released September 2009 in Ireland. He stated that he left Uzbekistan because of religious persecution, lived in a refugee camp in Tajikistan for [...]

By: More Dark Truths From Guantanamo as Five Innocent Men Released « freedetainees.org

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:44:49 +0000

[...] in a distinguished club that also includes Albania, Belgium, Bermuda, France and Hungary, Ireland, Palau, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. These countries have all shown up the US and other European [...]

By: Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in Spain? « freedetainees.org

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:46 +0000

[...] was not unusual. Although the identities of two Algerians released in France last year, and two Uzbeks released in Ireland had been publicly revealed (as, by accident, had the identities of two Syrians [...]

By: 116 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 171 Still In Limbo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:43:53 +0000

[...] the people of the United States accept that it is not enough for Belgium, Bermuda, France, Hungary, Ireland, Palau and Portugal to take the odd cleared prisoner as a favor to President Obama, and for the US [...]

By: Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy « freedetainees.org

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:14:42 +0000

[...] He added, however, that, in common with the other releases in Europe in recent months (in Portugal, Ireland and Belgium), the government had decided “not to disclose the identity of the former prisoner, [...]

By: Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:23:07 +0000

By: Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:01:21 +0000

[...] Uzbekistan — cannot be repatriated. European countries have so far accepted a handful of cleared prisoners, but a major stumbling block to the acceptance of others has been the Americans’ refusal to [...]

By: An Evening with Andy Worthington: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo” « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:25:39 +0000

[...] who are in a similar predicament, and that, although a few European countries have taken a handful of these men — and the administration has managed to dispose of ten of the remaining Uighurs in [...]

By: 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:33:11 +0000

[...] was repatriated five months after a judge ordered his release, and two Uzbeks, Oybek Jabbarov and Shakhrukh Hamiduva, cleared by military review boards under the Bush administration, who were sent to Ireland), but [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:37:39 +0000

And this was my reply:

That’s very interesting, arcticredriver. I hadn’t checked, as I’d presumed that he’d been cleared for release after the first round of the annual Administrative Review Boards (ARBs ) that followed the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs), but I now recall that I didn’t know what had happened to him for some time, as he disappeared off the system after the CSRTs. It may mean — although I thought I’d checked all the records — that he was actually the last of the 58 prisoners cleared after the CSRTs (when they were known, at the very beginning, as NECs – not enemy combatants – until the administration realized that it suggested they were innocent and changed it to NLECs – no longer enemy combatants), but at the very least it means that he was cleared as long ago as 2005, and has been waiting for at least four and a half years to be released. What a disgrace!