{{Short description|Uyghur detainee at Guantanamo Bay}} {{Infobox War on Terror detainee | name = Hajiakbar Abdulghupur | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|3|15}} | birth_place = Ghulja, Xinjiang Province, China | release_date = {{end date|2013|12}} | release_place = Slovakia | death_date = | detained_at = Guantanamo | id_number = 282 | status = Released }}
'''Hajiakbar Abdulghupur''' is a citizen of China, who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba for many years.<ref name="DoDList2">{{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|date=May 15, 2006|publisher=United States Department of Defense|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929142457/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf|archive-date=September 29, 2007|access-date=September 29, 2007}}</ref>
The DoD estimates that Abdulghupur was born in 1973 in Ghulja, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.
He was one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years, even though it became clear early on that they were innocent.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/|title=Innocent detainees need a home|last1=Delahunt|first1=Bill|date=April 2, 2009|work=The Boston Globe|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826225819/https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/|archive-date=August 26, 2019|last2=Willett|first2=Sabin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release|title=17 Innocent Uighurs Detained at Guantánamo Ask Supreme Court for Release|date=April 6, 2009|publisher=Center for Constitutional Rights|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918195458/https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant-namo-ask-supreme-court-release|archive-date=September 18, 2016|url=https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant-namo-ask-supreme-court-release}}</ref><ref name="AsiaTimes041104">{{Cite news|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html|title=China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo|last=Wolfe|first=Adam|date=November 4, 2004|work=Asia Times|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229105837/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html|archive-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref>
He won his ''habeas corpus'' case in 2008. Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention unlawful and ordered for him to be set free in the United States.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
In December 2013, after having been held at Guantanamo for over eleven years, Abdulghupur was transferred to Slovakia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/us/us-frees-last-of-uighur-detainees-from-guantanamo.html|title=U.S. Frees Last of the Chinese Uighur Detainees From Guantánamo Bay|last=Savage|first=Charlie|date=December 31, 2013|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105225527/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/us/us-frees-last-of-uighur-detainees-from-guantanamo.html|archive-date=January 5, 2018|author-link=Charlie Savage (author)|url-access=limited}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[https://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/09/from-guantanamo-to-the-united-states-the-story-of-the-wrongly-imprisoned-uighurs/ From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs] Andy Worthington October 9, 2008 *[https://ccrjustice.org/files/2008-10-09%20Kiyemba%20corrected%20release%20order%20%282008-10-09%29.pdf Judge Ricardo Urbina’s unclassified opinion (redacted version)] *[https://ccrjustice.org/files/2008-10-07%20Kiyemba%20-%20Uighur%20hearing%20transcript.pdf MOTIONS/STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES BEFORE THE HONORABLE RICARDO M. URBINA] * Human Rights First; [https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Habeas-Works-final-web.pdf Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (June 2010)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103135942/http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Habeas-Works-final-web.pdf |date=2014-01-03 }}
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