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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
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 | birth_place = [[Toqquztash]], [[China]]
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 | detained_at    = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
 | id_number      = 279
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 | alias          = Ayoob Haji Mohammed
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 | status         = Determined not to have been an enemy combatant after all
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'''Haji Mohammed Ayub''' (born April 15, 1984) is a 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>
The [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] reports he was born on April 15, 1984, in [[Toqquztash]], China.

Ayub 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>

Ayub was one of the five Uyghurs whose [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]] determined that he was not an [[enemy combatant]], and was transferred to an [[Albania]]n refugee camp.

==McClatchy interview==
On June 15, 2008 the [[McClatchy News Service]] published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.  McClatchy reporters interviewed Mohammed Ayub.<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=McClatchyMohammedAyub>
{{Cite news
| url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/23
| title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Mohammed Ayub
| 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%2F23&date=2008-08-01 mirror]
</ref>
Mohammed Ayub told interviewers he found the conditions in Guantanamo so harsh that he dropped from 164 to 105 pounds, and that he was so hungry he was reduced to eating orange peels.
He told interviewers captives were punished harshly for small infractions, like having an extra napkin.

In spite of his treatment in Guantanamo Mohammed Ayub told reporters he would still like to move to the USA.<ref name=McClatchyMohammedAyub/>
He has relatives who live in America, and in 2001 he had a student visa for the USA.  But a friend he was traveling with did not, and he decided to postpone his travel until his friend had a visa too.

Mohammed Ayub described the interrogations the captives went through when Chinese security officials visited Guantanamo as:<ref name=McClatchyAbuBaqrQassim>
{{Cite news
| url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/24
| title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Abu Baqr Qassim
| 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%2F24&date=2008-08-01 mirror]
</ref>
{{Quotation|"...nothing more than threats. They told me they knew my family, where I'd lived, when I'd left China, where I'd traveled. I would be imprisoned if I ever tried to return to China. It was frightening, they got to us inside that place."}}

Mohammed Ayub said that he and his companion decided to wait for the visa in Afghanistan, where he was mugged, lost his money and identity papers.<ref name=McClatchyMohammedAyub/>

==See also==
*[[Minors detained in the War on Terror]]
*[[Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* [http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2007/11/2008525184946691768.html Witness - A strange kind of freedom] [[Aljazeera]] - video
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,426704,00.html Escape to Hell - Fleeing China, Landing in Guantanamo] [[Der Spiegel]] July 14, 2006
* [http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/prisoner-testimonies/wall-street-journal-free-and-uneasy-tale-of-5-muslims-out-of-guantanamo-and-into-limbo-cleared-by-u-s-of-terror-ties-they-won2019t-return-home-due-to-fear-of-punishment-china-demands-repatriation Free and Uneasy. Tale of 5 Muslims: Out of Guantanamo and Into Limbo Cleared by U.S. of Terror Ties, They Won’t Return Home Due to Fear of Punishment. China Demands Repatriation]

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