Ravil Mingazov

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Ravil Mingazov is a citizen of Russia currently unlawfully detained in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

The Department of Defense assigned him the Internment Serial Number 702 and reports that Mingazov was born on 5 December 1967, in Bolsheretski, Russia.

As of today Ravil Mingazov has been held at Guantanamo for 21 years, 5 months, and 22 days. he arrived there on October 28, 2002. On May 13, 2010, US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., ordered the Obama administration to release Mingazov under the writ of habeas corpus.

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

CSR Tribunal Summary of Evidence memo

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Ravil Mingazov's CSR Tribunal on October 6, 2004. The one page memo listed eight justifications for his continued detention. When initially published in 2005 his Russian nationality was redacted from the memo.

a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:

1. The detainee is a Russian national who voluntarily traveled to Afghanistan via Dushanbe, Tajikistan through Kunduz, Afghanistan; to Mazir-E-Sharif, Afghanistan; to Kabul, Afghanistan; and finally to Kandahar, Afghanistan in February 200.
2. The detainee was in the training camp of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which was located in Mazir-E-Sharif, Afghanistan.
3. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a known terrorist group.
4. The detainee received training at the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan training camp on infantry equipment and how to make and use explosives.
5. The detainee was at the al Farouq camp and was trained on explosives, chemicals, pistols and rifles plus assassination methods. He also trained on how to make poisons at the Kara Karga camp outside of Kabul.
6. The detainee observed Usama Bin Laden while at the training camp and listened to his speeches on politics and religion.
7. The detainee was at the al Farouq camp on 11 September 2001.
8. The detainee fled Afghanistan following the U.S. bombing campaign and was arrested by Pakistani police in a safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, approximately four months later.

Administrative Review Board

Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee may pose if released or transferred, and whether there are other factors that warrant his continued detention.

2005 Summary of Evidence memo

A four page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board hearing on August 31, 2005. He faced 29 "primary factors favoring continued detention" and 4 "primary factors favoring transfer or release".

2006 Summary of Evidence memo

A four page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board hearing on June 13, 2006. He faced 33 "primary factors favoring continued detention" and 4 "primary factors favoring transfer or release".

Transcript

Ravil attended his 2006 review hearing. The United States Department of Defense published a fifteen page summarized transcript. His Assisting Military Officer met with him on June 20, 2006, and wrote that he found Ravil "attentive during the interview", and that Ravil had originally planned to skip the hearing, but changed his mind.

2007 Summary of Evidence memo

A three page Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his third annual Administrative Review Board hearing on June 12, 2007. He faced 16 "primary factors favoring continued detention" and 4 "primary factors favoring transfer or release".

External links

• Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web Andy Worthington May 19, 2010
• Two Massachusetts Towns Welcome Guantánamo Detainee Ordered Released by a Federal Judge Common Dreams NewsCenter May 14, 2010
• Guantanamo Prisoner's Mother Says Son Fears Returning To Russia Radio Free Europe May 18, 2010
• Human Rights First; Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)

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