# Rustam Akhmyarov > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rustam_Akhmyarov > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rustam_Akhmyarov.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Akhmyarov > Source revision: 1349836851 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee}} {{Infobox WoT detainees | name = Rustam Akhmyarov | image_name = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = | date_of_arrest = | place_of_arrest = | arresting_authority = | date_of_release = 2004 | place_of_release = Russia | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = [Russia](/source/Russia) | detained_at = [Guantanamo](/source/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp) | id_number = 573 | group = | alias = | charge = [extrajudicial detention](/source/extrajudicial_detention) | penalty = | status = | occupation = | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Rustam Akhmyarov''' is a Russian who was held in [extrajudicial](/source/extrajudicial) detention in the [United States](/source/United_States) [Guantanamo Bay detainment camp](/source/Guantanamo_Bay_detainment_camp)s.{{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 | publisher=[United States Department of Defense](/source/United_States_Department_of_Defense) | access-date=2006-05-15 | archive-date=2007-09-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf | url-status=dead }} {{wikisource-inline|List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006}} His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 573. The [Department of Defense](/source/United_States_Department_of_Defense) reports that Akhmyarov was born on October 24, 1979, in [Chelyabinsk](/source/Chelyabinsk), [Russia](/source/Russia). He was repatriated to Russia in early 2004, prior to the institution of the [Combatant Status Review Tribunal](/source/Combatant_Status_Review_Tribunal)s, in July 2004. He was subsequently released from Russian custody. On August 27, 2005, Akhmyarov and another former Guantanamo detainee [Airat Vakhitov](/source/Airat_Vakhitov), were reported to have been seized by Russian security officials in Moscow and jailed in [Tatarstan](/source/Tatarstan).{{Cite news|url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=1&id=604420|title=Russian Talibs Found Through London|last=Stepenin|first=Maxim|date=2005-08-29|work=Kommersant|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817154257/http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=1&id=604420|archive-date=2016-08-17}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1061070.html|title=Tatarstan Arrests Former Guantanamo Bay Prisoners|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=8 April 2008 |access-date=2017-01-21}} According to [Geydar Dzhemal](/source/Geydar_Dzhemal), chairman of the [Islamic Committee of Russia](/source/Islamic_Committee_of_Russia), the security officials were concerned that when Akhmyarov and Airat Vakhitov visited the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom), as guests of [Amnesty International](/source/Amnesty_International), they would testify about [human rights](/source/human_rights) abuses in Russia, not just in Guantanamo. He predicted the pair would be arrested on trumped up charges. The pair were released from detention on September 2, 2005.{{Cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2005/09/02/Russia-frees-2-former-Gitmo-prisoners/UPI-12081125711327/|title=Russia frees 2 former Gitmo prisoners|newspaper=UPI|language=en|access-date=2017-01-21}} In 2007, Akhmyarov and three other former captives were reported to have gone into hiding because other former Guantanamo captives had been tortured while in Russian custody. {{cite news |url = http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/ex-guantanamo-inmates-tortured-in-russia-1.320880?ot=inmsa.ArticlePrintPageLayout.ot |title = 'Ex-Guantanamo inmates tortured in Russia' |publisher = Independent Online |author = Maria Danilova |date = 2007-03-29 |archive-date = 2016-03-05 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305203443/http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/ex-guantanamo-inmates-tortured-in-russia-1.320880?ot=inmsa.ArticlePrintPageLayout.ot |url-status = live |quote = Four others - Rustam Akhmyarov, Shamil Khazhiyev, Ruslan Odizhev and Airat Vakhitov - are in hiding, according to activists. }} ==See also== * [Muhammad Saad Iqbal](/source/Muhammad_Saad_Iqbal) ==References== {{Reflist}} {{WoTPrisoners|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Akhmyarov, Rustam}} Category:Living people Category:Guantanamo detainees known to have been released Category:People from Chelyabinsk Category:Russian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Category:1979 births --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Rustam Akhmyarov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Akhmyarov) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Akhmyarov?action=history)). 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