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Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ravil Kamilevich Mingazov is a citizen of Russia who was held in extrajudicial detention for almost fifteen years in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[3] The Department of Defense reports that Mingazov was born on December 5, 1967, in Bolsheretski, Russia.
| Ravil Kamilevich Mingazov | |
|---|---|
 Ravil Mingazov`s official Guantanamo identity portrait | |
| Born | December 5, 1967[1][2] Bolsheretski, Russia |
| Arrested | Pakistan Pakistani officials |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Detained at | Guantanamo |
| ISN | 702 |
| Charge(s) | No charge extrajudicial detention |
| Status |
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Ravil Mingazov arrived at Guantanamo on October 28, 2002, and was held at Guantanamo for 14 years, 2 months and 22 days.[4][5][6][7][8]
Mingazov, an ethnic Tatar, was a ballet dancer, before he joined the Soviet army.[9] Anti-Muslim harassment drove Mingazov to leave Russia for Tajikistan, in 2000.
Mingazov was approved for transfer on July 21, 2016.[10] He was transferred to the United Arab Emirates on January 19, 2017.
Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by Benjamin Wittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according to whether their detention was justified by certain common allegations:[11]
On May 13, 2010, US District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., the Obama administration to release Mingazov under the writ of habeas corpus.[9][12][13] Mingazov's was the 35 case where the judge ordered a release. The government had succeeded in convincing a habeas corpus judge continued detention was justified in an additional 13 cases.
A panel of judges on the Washington DC court of appeals reversed Kennedy's release order.[9]
On April 25, 2011, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments prepared by Joint Task Force Guantanamo.[14][15] Ravil’s assessment was nine pages and recommended continued detention under DoD Control.[16] It was signed by camp commandant Mark H. Buzby.
On January 20, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama issued several Presidential Executive Orders related to the Guantanamo detention center – which he had promised to close during his presidential campaign. Those Executive Orders set up a Guantanamo Review Task Force, intended to replace OARDEC. In October 2013, Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by Carol Rosenberg and her colleagues at the Miami Herald triggered the publication of a list of "final dispositions".[17] According to that list Ravil Mingazov should be "referred for prosecution".
Russian officials are scheduled to travel to Guantanamo on January 17, 2014, to meet with Mingazov.[13] According to the Moscow Times, visiting Russian officials had been turned away in April 2013, because Mingazov had declined to meet with them.[18]
On November 6, 2015, The Guardian reported that Mingazov's teenage son and his former wife now live in the United Kingdom, and that his family had filed an asylum application on his behalf.[9] His son and former wife arrived in the UK in 2014, and live with other relatives of Mingazov there.[19]
Mingazov was one of the last four individuals to be transferred from Guantanamo before the end of Barack Obama's Presidency.[19] Mingazov, an Afghan, Wali Mohammed, and a Yemeni, Yassim Qasim Mohammed Ismail Qasim, were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, while Jabran al-Qahtani was repatriated to Saudi Arabia, on January 19, 2017, just one day prior to Donald Trump's inauguration. Trump had promised to curtail all transfers from Guantanamo.
Mingazov was released and repatriated to Russia on August 7, 2024.[20]
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