Adel Abdulhehim
{{Short description|Chinese detainee}}
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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name = Adel Abdulhehim
| image =
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| caption = Left to Right: Ahmed Adil, Adil Abdul Hakim, Abu Bakr Qassim
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|10}}
| birth_place = Ghulja, Xinjiang, China
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| detained_at = Guantanamo
| id_number = 293
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| alias = A'Del Abdu al-Hakim
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| status = Refugee in Albania
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Adel Abdulhehim or Adel Abdul Hakim is a citizen of the People's Republic of China from the Uighur ethnic group. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States-controlled Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.
{{cite web
| url = http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title = List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| author = OARDEC
| author-link = OARDEC
| publisher = United States Department of Defense
| date = May 15, 2006
| accessdate = 29 September 2007
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf| archivedate= September 30, 2007 | url-status= dead}}Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on October 10, 1974, in Ghulja, Xinjiang.
Abdulhehim was captured in late 2001 and detained in Camp Delta. He is one of the 38 detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal concluded he had not been an "illegal combatant" after all.
Abdulhehim is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.
According to an article distributed by the Associated Press, Abdulhehim, his compatriot Abu Baker Qassim and eight others were moved from imprisonment at the main compound of Camp Delta to a less harsh imprisonment at Camp Iguana.{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/washington/17cnd-knowlton.html?ex=1146542400&en=394e0d61fde6a23a&ei=5070
| title = Supreme Court Rejects Bid by Guantanamo Detainees
| newspaper = The New York Times
| author = Knowlton, Brian
| date = April 17, 2006
| accessdate = April 30, 2006
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160218055827/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/washington/17cnd-knowlton.html?ex=1146542400&en=394e0d61fde6a23a&ei=5070
| archive-date = February 18, 2016
| url-status = live
}}
A February 18, 2006, article in The Washington Times claimed that Abu Bakker Qassim and A'Del Abdu al-Hakim had received military training in Afghanistan.[http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060217-105337-6696r.htm U.S. hit on human rights] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714190034/http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060217-105337-6696r.htm |date=July 14, 2006 }}. The Washington Times. 18 February 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2006. It reported they were not classified as "illegal combatants" because they intended to go home and employ their training against the Chinese government and were released.{{cite news
| url = http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060811015712/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/
| archivedate = 11 August 2006
| title = Guantanamo Bay Detainees {{sic|nolink=y|Classifed}} as 'No Longer Enemy Combatants'
| newspaper = The Washington Post
}} Some earlier reports had described them as economic refugees who were slowly working their way to Turkey.
Bounty
File:Taliban bounty 3.jpg and Taliban murderers. This is enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life. Pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people."]]
Hakim and Abu Bakker Qassim report they were sold to US forces by bounty hunters.
{{cite web
| url = http://www.pegc.us/archive/Parhat_v_Gates/pet_mot_po_20061218.pdf
| title = Parhat v. Gates Case No: 06-1397
| publisher = Department of Justice
| date = December 18, 2006
| accessdate = 2007-09-14
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071009201525/http://www.pegc.us/archive/Parhat_v_Gates/pet_mot_po_20061218.pdf| archivedate= 9 October 2007 | url-status= live}}
{{cite news
| date = February 13, 2006
| title = Innocent, but in limbo at Guantánamo: Five Chinese Muslims, captured in Pakistan by mistake, try to get the US Supreme Court to take their case.
| author = Warren Richey
| author-link = Warren Richey
| newspaper = The Christian Science Monitor
}}
Press reports
In January 2007, Abdulhehim told the BBC that "Albanian people are very welcoming and there are many Muslim brothers here".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242891.stm Guantanamo Uighurs' strange odyssey] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104045624/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242891.stm |date=November 4, 2016 }}, BBC, January 11, 2007
However, in Albania, Hakim was separated from his wife and their three children, as Albania did not permit family-reunification. In November 2007, he was granted a 4-day visa to Sweden, to lecture about human rights in Stockholm. Since his sister lived in Sweden, he applied for asylum there. However, in June 2008, the immigration authorities in Sweden announced that Hakim had been denied political asylum.[http://www.sr.se/ekot/arkiv.asp?DagensDatum=2008-06-19&Artikel=2145594 Frisläppt Guantánamofånge utvisas]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 19 juni 2008, Swedish State Broadcaster. {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
On June 15, 2008, the McClatchy News Service published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Adel Abdulhehim.
{{cite news
| url = http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
| title = Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 2
| publisher = McClatchy News Service
| author = Tom Lasseter
| author-link = Tom Lasseter
| date = June 15, 2008
| accessdate = 2008-06-16
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080620093342/http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
| archivedate = 20 June 2008
| url-status = dead
}}
{{cite news
| url = http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/25
| title = Guantanamo Inmate Database: Adel Abdulhehim
| publisher = McClatchy News Service
| author = Tom Lasseter
| author-link = Tom Lasseter
| date = June 15, 2008
| accessdate = 2008-06-16
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080626183800/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/25
| archivedate = 26 June 2008
| url-status = dead
}}
The McClatchy interview records his account of his "military training" in the Uyghur construction camp:
{{blockquote|“They had some guns, some AK-47s, and asked us if we wanted to learn to use them. Really, I was curious. I'd never been allowed to handle one before. We went out once, for an hour or so. I think I shot three or four bullets, at rocks. That was it.”}}
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929131759/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GUANTANAMO_DETAINEES?SITE=GAVAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Judge Asks Status of Gitmo Detainees], South Georgia Online, August 25, 2005
- [https://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/12/13/ap2389374.html Judge Weighs Order to Release Two at Gitmo]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, Forbes, December 13, 2005
- [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/10/21/guantanamos-uyghurs-stranded-in-albania/ Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: stranded in Albania] Andy Worthington
- [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/11/22/world-exclusive-former-guantanamo-detainee-seeks-asylum-in-sweden/ WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Former Guantánamo detainee seeks asylum in Sweden] Andy Worthington
- [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/02/19/bad-news-and-good-news-for-the-guantanamo-uighurs/ Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs] Andy Worthington
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Category:Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States