Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev
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Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev or Elham Battayav (born on 7 November 1973) was held in extrajudicial detention
in the United States
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
s, in Cuba
.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 84. He was born in Abaye, Kazakhstan
.
He was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and he was transferred to Kazakhstan on December 15, 2006.
, was profiled by the Willamette Week
.
Johnson remarked on how Batayev continued to keep his hopes up that he would eventually be released.
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.
law firm Perkins Cole issued a press release on 18 December 2006 announcing Ihlkham Battayav's release.
The press release stated:
The Miami Herald reports that three of the four Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo were repatriated and set free on 21 December 2006.
According to the Herald the two other released men were Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov and Yakub Abahanov.
Ilkham Batayev was one of the men they interviewed.
The McClatchy report stated that Ilkham Batayev said he couldn't bring himself to talk about his Guantanamo experiences, or how he came to be in Afghanistan.
But the McClatchy report characterized previous reports Ilkham Batayev had offered earlier—to a journalist in 2001, to his Tribunal, and to his lawyer—as inconsistent.
The McClatchy article quoted Ilkham Batayev's lawyer, Thomas R. Johnson Jr., about the credibility of his assertion that fighters in the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement could have kidnapped him, and press-ganged him, into involuntary service in Afghanistan.
Johnson thought that the Tribunal officers discounted this part of his story as incredible, because it was outside their experience, and they simply couldn't imagine it was credible, in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or Afghanistan:
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...
s, in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 84. He was born in Abaye, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
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He was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and he was transferred to Kazakhstan on December 15, 2006.
Tom Johnson, Batayev's lawyer
On 9 August 2006 Batayev's lawyer, Tom Johnson, of Portland, OregonPortland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, was profiled by the Willamette Week
Willamette Week
Willamette Week is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture....
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Johnson remarked on how Batayev continued to keep his hopes up that he would eventually be released.
Habeas corpus submissions
Elham Battayav is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard byUS District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on January 31, 2007.
Release
The Portland, OregonPortland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
law firm Perkins Cole issued a press release on 18 December 2006 announcing Ihlkham Battayav's release.
The press release stated:
The Miami Herald reports that three of the four Kazakh detainees in Guantanamo were repatriated and set free on 21 December 2006.
According to the Herald the two other released men were Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov and Yakub Abahanov.
McClatchy News Service interview
On 15 June 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a series of article based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.Ilkham Batayev was one of the men they interviewed.
The McClatchy report stated that Ilkham Batayev said he couldn't bring himself to talk about his Guantanamo experiences, or how he came to be in Afghanistan.
But the McClatchy report characterized previous reports Ilkham Batayev had offered earlier—to a journalist in 2001, to his Tribunal, and to his lawyer—as inconsistent.
The McClatchy article quoted Ilkham Batayev's lawyer, Thomas R. Johnson Jr., about the credibility of his assertion that fighters in the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement could have kidnapped him, and press-ganged him, into involuntary service in Afghanistan.
Johnson thought that the Tribunal officers discounted this part of his story as incredible, because it was outside their experience, and they simply couldn't imagine it was credible, in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or Afghanistan: