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#REDIRECT [[Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay#The Uyghur detainees]] {{R from merge}}
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{{Infobox WoT detainees
| subject_name = Akhdar Qasem Basit
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| date_of_birth = {{Birth date|1973|11|04}}
| place_of_birth = [[Ghulja]], China
| date_of_death =
| place_of_death =
| detained_at = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
| id_number = 276
| group =
| alias =
| charge = No charge
| penalty =
| status = Transferred to an [[Albania]]n refugee camp.
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}}
'''Akhdar Qasem Basit''' is a [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] citizen of [[China]] who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<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]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=May 15, 2006
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref>
His Guantanamo [[Internment Serial Number]] was 276.
[[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] [[counter-terrorism]] analysts report Basit was born on November 14, 1973, in [[Ghulja]], China.

Basit is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] ethnic group.<ref name=AsiaTimes041104>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo], ''[[Asia Times]]'', November 4, 2004</ref>
{{Main|Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo}}

==Inconsistent identification==
{{Detainee names}}
*He was identified as '''Akhadar Qasem''' in the [[Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO]].<ref name=UighurDetaineePopulationAtJTFGTMO>
{{Cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_1731-1808.pdf#28
| title=Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO
| date=30 October 2004
| pages=pages 28–34
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2007-12-19
}}</ref>
*He was identified as '''Akhdar Qasem Basit''' on the [[Summary of Evidence (CSRT)|Summary of Evidence memo]] prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, on 12 November 2004.<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAkhdarQasemBasit>
{{Cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000300-000399.pdf#17
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Basit, Akhdar Qasem
| date=12 November 2004
| page='''page 17'''
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2008-04-16
}}</ref>

{{Uyghur detainee}}
:{| class="wikitable"
|
:Akhdar Qasem Basit is a 31-year-old Chinese citizen who is an ethnic Uighur from the Ghulja province {{Sic}} of China.
Basit was last interviewed at the end of 2002. He has no reported incidents of violence in his discipline history. Basit is suspected as being a probable member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). He is suspected of having received training in an ETIM training camp in Afghanistan.
|}

The information paper also identified him as '''"Akhadar Qasem"'''.

==CSRT==
{{CSRT-Yes}}<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAkhdarQasemBasit/>

{{Quotation|
:a. The detainee is associated with the Al Qaida and the Taliban:
:#The detainee, in August 2001, departed China for Kyrgyzstan, to Islamabad, Pakistan, continued to Jalalabad, Afghanistan and to Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
:#The detainee was at the Uighur training camp in Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
:#The detainee received training on the AK-47 assault rifle at Uigher training camp in Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
:#The detainee received training on the PK machine gun and military tactics at a Uigher training camp.
:#The training camp was provided to the Uighers by the Taliban.
:#The ETIM operated facilities in the Tora Bora region Afghanistan in which Uigher expatriates underwent small arms training. These camps were funded by Bin Laden and the Taliban.

:b. The detainee participated in military operations against the United States and its coalition partners.
:#The detainee fled, along with others, when the United States forces bombed their camp.
:#The detainee was captured in Pakistan, along with other Uigher fighters.
}}

===Transcript===
Basit chose to participate in his [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]].<ref name=CsrtAkhdarQasemBasit>
{{Cite web
| url={{DoD detainees ARB|Set_16_1363-1446.pdf#1}}
| title=Summarized Statement
| date='''date redacted'''
| pages='''pages 1–6'''
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2008-04-16
}}</ref>
On March 3, 2006, in response to a [[court order]] from [[Jed Rakoff]] the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] published a six page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=TheAge20060404>
{{Cite news
| url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-releases-Guantanamo-files/2006/04/04/1143916500334.html
| title=US releases Guantanamo files
| publisher=[[The Age]]
| date=April 4, 2006
| accessdate=2008-03-15
| quote=
}}</ref>

==Determined not to have been an Enemy Combatant==
The [[Washington Post]] reports that Basit was one of 38 detainees who was determined not to have been an enemy combatant during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.<ref name=WapoNlec>[http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants"], ''[[Washington Post]]''</ref><ref name=DoDNlecList20071119>
{{Cite news
| url=http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/03/27/20/NLEC_DetaineeList.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf
|format=PDF| title=Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| author=
| date=November 19, 2007
| accessdate=2008-04-15
| quote=
}}</ref>
The Department of Defense refers to these men as [[No Longer Enemy Combatants]].

{{Albanian asylum}}

==Press reports==
On June 8, 2007, in an interview in the [[Dallas Star-Telegram]] Basit described his health deteriorating in his Albanian refugee camp.<ref name=DFWStarTelegram20070608>
{{Cite news
| url=http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/129720.html
| title=Freedom proves bitter for released detainee
| author=[[Matthew Schofield]]
| publisher=[[Dallas Star-Telegram]]
| accessdate=2007-06-08
}}</ref>

On June 15, 2008 the [[McClatchy News Service]] published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives. McClatchy reporters interviewed Akhdar Qasem Basit.<ref name=McClatchyCaptiveDatabasePg2>
{{Cite news
| url=http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2
| title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Page 2
| publisher=[[McClatchy News Service]]
| author=[[Tom Lasseter]]
| date=June 15, 2008
| accessdate=2008-06-16
| quote=
}} [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.mcclatchyinteractive.com%2Fdetainees%3Fpage%3D2&date=2008-06-18 mirror]
</ref><ref name=McClatchyAkhdarQasemBasit>
{{Cite news
| url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/22
| title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Akhdar Qasem Basit
| publisher=[[McClatchy News Service]]
| author=[[Tom Lasseter]]
| date=June 15, 2008
| accessdate=2008-06-16
| quote=
}} [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F22&date=2008-08-01 mirror]
</ref>
The McClatchy interviews confirms the reports his health is failing:
:{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|
:"Even in Guantanamo, I was strong. Look up the records: I did not need doctors. But now, everything has changed. I am sick every day; I am in pain every day. It is no secret why. I have lost hope."

:"I have not seen my daughter since she was 4 months old. When I arrived, I had hope, but it is clear I will never see her again. I will never again see my wife. I have no dreams for the future."

:"It's sad, isn't it? We grow up believing America is the land of hope. And yet, that is who killed hope for me."
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{ETIM}}
{{Exonerated Guantanamo captives}}
{{ListUyghurCaptives}}
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