Ali Sher Hamidullah

Ali Sher Hamidullah is a citizen of Uzbekistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 455.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts estimate he was born on November 19, 1974, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Ali Sher Hamidullah arrived in Guantanamo on June 16, 2002, and, according to the New York Times, he remains in Guantanamo, and has been held there for .
According to historian Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, Switzerland granted him asylum, due to his fears he would be executed if he returned to Uzbekistan.
According to historian Worthington Ali Sher Hamidullah was warned by Uzbekistani security officials the Bush administration allowed to interrogate the Uzbekistani captives, that he would be killed if he were to return to Uzbekistan.
Worthington notes that he had been cleared in 2005, and was held a further four years because it took the USA another four years to find a nation that would offer him a home.
Combatant Status Review
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations:
Allegations
The allegations presented to his Tribunal were
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Transcript
There is no record that Ali Sher Hamidullah chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Administrative Review Board hearing
Summary of Evidence memo
The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board was released, with thousands of other documents, on September 4, 2007, due to Freedom of Information Act requests from the Associated Press.
The memo listed nine "primary factors favor continued detention" and six "primary factors favor release or transfer".
New factors on the 2005 memo, that weren't on the 2004 memo included:
*an allegation that he paid a bribe to be able to enter Afghanistan;
*an allegation that the Taliban provided him with room, board, and a job;
*an allegation that he had fought in Chechnya;
*an allegation that he had provided interrogators with a false name;
*a report that he has requested transfer to Turkey, or another country where a Turkish language is spoken, where he would like to open a liquor store.
*a report that he denied ever engaging in hostilities.
Transcript
Ali Sher Hamidullah chose to participate in his Board hearing.

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