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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name   = Adel Abdulhehim
| image     =
| image_size     = 220px
| caption  = Left to Right: [[Ahmed Adil]], '''Adil Abdul Hakim''', [[Abu Bakr Qassim]]
| birth_date  =  {{Birth date|1974|10|10}}
| birth_place = [[Ghulja]], [[China]]
| death_date  =
| death_place =
| detained_at    = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
| id_number      = 293
| group          =
| alias          = A'Del Abdu al-Hakim
| charge         =
| penalty        =
| status         = Refugee in Albania
| occupation     =
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'''Adel Abdulhehim''' or '''Adel Abdul Hakim''' is a citizen of the [[People's Republic of China]] from the [[Uyghur people|Uighur]] ethnic group who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[United States]]-controlled [[Guantanamo Bay detainment 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
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf| archivedate= 30 September 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>
[[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] [[counter-terrorism]] analysts report he was born on October 10, 1974, in [[Ghulja]], [[Xinjiang]].

Abdulhehim was captured in late 2001, and detained in [[Camp Delta]].  He is one of the 38 detainees whose [[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]] concluded he had not been an "illegal combatant" after all.

Abdulhehim is one of approximately two dozen [[Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay|detainees from the Uighur ethnic group]].

According to an article distributed by the [[Associated Press]], Abdulhehim, his compatriot [[Abu Baker Qassim]], and eight others were moved from imprisonment at the main compound of Camp Delta to a less harsh imprisonment at [[Camp Iguana]].<ref>
{{cite news
| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/washington/17cnd-knowlton.html?ex=1146542400&en=394e0d61fde6a23a&ei=5070
| title=Supreme Court Rejects Bid by Guantanamo Detainees
| publisher=New York Times
| author=Knowlton, Brian
| date=17 April 2006
| accessdate=2006-04-30
| quote=
}}</ref>

A February 18, 2006 article in the [[Washington Times]] claimed that Abu Bakker Qassim and ''A'Del Abdu al-Hakim'' had received [[military training]] in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>[http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060217-105337-6696r.htm U.S. hit on human rights] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714190034/http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060217-105337-6696r.htm |date=July 14, 2006 }}. Washington Times. 18 February 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2006.</ref>  It reported they were not classified as "illegal combatants" because they intended to go home and employ their training against the [[Government of the People's Republic of China|Chinese government]], and were released.<ref name=WapoNlec>{{cite web
|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/ 
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811015712/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/guantanamo/nlec/
|archivedate=11 August 2006
|title=Guantanamo Bay Detainees {{sic|nolink=y|Classifed}} as 'No Longer Enemy Combatants'
|publisher= ''[[Washington Post]]''
}}</ref>  Some earlier reports had described them as economic refugees who were slowly working their way to [[Turkey]].

==Bounty==
[[File:Taliban bounty 3.jpg|thumb|The caption to this bounty poster, distributed in Afghanistan, states: ''“You can receive millions of dollars for helping the Anti-Taliban Force catch [[Al-Qaida]] and [[Taliban]] murderers. This is enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life. Pay for livestock and doctors and school books and housing for all your people."]]

Hakim and Abu Bakker Qassim report they were sold to [[US forces]] by [[bounty hunter]]s.<ref name=ParhatVGatesCase06-1397>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/Parhat_v_Gates/pet_mot_po_20061218.pdf
| title=Parhat v. Gates Case No: 06-1397
| publisher=[[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]]
| date=December 18, 2006
| accessdate=2007-09-14
| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071009201525/http://www.pegc.us/archive/Parhat_v_Gates/pet_mot_po_20061218.pdf| archivedate= 9 October 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref name=ChristianScienceMonitor20060213>
{{cite news
| date=February 13, 2006
| title=Innocent, but in limbo at Guantánamo: Five Chinese Muslims, captured in Pakistan by mistake, try to get the US Supreme Court to take their case.
| author=[[Warren Richey]]
| publisher=[[Christian Science Monitor]]
}}</ref>

==Press reports==
To the [[BBC]] Abdul Hakim  said in January 2007 that "[[Albania]]n people are very welcoming and there are many Muslim brothers here".<ref name=Bbc110107>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242891.stm Guantanamo Uighurs' strange odyssey] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104045624/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242891.stm |date=November 4, 2016 }}, ''[[BBC]]'', January 11, 2007</ref>

However, in Albania Hakim was separated from his wife and their three children, as Albania did not permit family-reunification.  In November 2007 he was granted a 4-day visa to [[Sweden]], to lecture about [[human rights]] in [[Stockholm]]. Since his sister lived in Sweden, he applied for asylum there. However, in June 2008 the immigration authorities in Sweden announced that Hakim had been denied [[political asylum]].<ref>[http://www.sr.se/ekot/arkiv.asp?DagensDatum=2008-06-19&Artikel=2145594 Frisläppt Guantánamofånge utvisas]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 19 juni 2008, Swedish State Broadcaster.  {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On June 15, 2008 the [[McClatchy News Service]] published articles based on interviews with 66 former Guantanamo captives.  McClatchy reporters interviewed Adel Abdulhehim.<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= 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620093342/http://services.mcclatchyinteractive.com/detainees?page=2 
 |archivedate=20 June 2008 
 |deadurl=bot: unknown 
 |df= 
}} 
</ref><ref name=McClatchyAdelAbdulhehim>
{{cite news
 |url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/25 
 |title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Adel Abdulhehim 
 |publisher=[[McClatchy News Service]] 
 |author=[[Tom Lasseter]] 
 |date=June 15, 2008 
 |accessdate=2008-06-16 
 |quote= 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626183800/http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/25 
 |archivedate=26 June 2008 
 |deadurl=bot: unknown 
 |df= 
}} 
</ref>
The McClatchy interview records his account of his "military training" in the Uyghur construction camp:
{{quotation|“They had some guns, some AK-47s, and asked us if we wanted to learn to use them. Really, I was curious. I'd never been allowed to handle one before. We went out once, for an hour or so. I think I shot three or four bullets, at rocks. That was it.”}}

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

==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929131759/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GUANTANAMO_DETAINEES?SITE=GAVAL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Judge Asks Status of Gitmo Detainees], ''[[South Georgia Online]]'', August 25, 2005
* [http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/12/13/ap2389374.html Judge Weighs Order to Release Two at Gitmo], ''[[Forbes]]'', December 13, 2005
* [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/10/21/guantanamos-uyghurs-stranded-in-albania/ Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: stranded in Albania] Andy Worthington
* [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/11/22/world-exclusive-former-guantanamo-detainee-seeks-asylum-in-sweden/ WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Former Guantánamo detainee seeks asylum in Sweden] Andy Worthington
* [http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/02/19/bad-news-and-good-news-for-the-guantanamo-uighurs/ Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs] Andy Worthington

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