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{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name = Edham Mamet
| image =
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| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1975|05|04}}
| birth_place = [[Khulga]], [[China]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| detained_at = [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]]
| id_number = 102
| group =
| alias = Nag Mohammed
| charge =
| penalty =
| status = Released
| occupation =
| spouse =
| parents =
| children =
}}
'''Edham Mamet''' (also '''Nag Mohammed'''<ref name=DoDList2/><ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceNagMohammed>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#18
| title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Mohammed, Nag (published September 2007)
| date=November 5, 2004
| pages=18
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2007-12-17
}}</ref><ref name=DoDList>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
| title=List of detainee who went through complete CSRT process
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=April 20, 2006
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref><ref name=OardecCsrtSummaryOfEvidence20070717>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf
| title=Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=July 17, 2007
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref><ref name=OardecPubliclyFiledDocuments20070910>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_publicly_filed_CSRT_records.pdf
| title=Index for CSRT Records Publicly Files in Guantanamo Detainee Cases
| author=[[OARDEC]]
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| date=August 8, 2007
| accessdate=2007-09-29
}}</ref>) is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] refugee best known for the more than seven years he spent in the [[United States]] [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]]. He was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001.<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>
[[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] [[counter-terrorism]] analysts estimate Nag Mohammed was born on May 4, 1975, in [[Khulga]], [[China]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/102-nag-mohammed | work=The New York Times | title=Edham Mamet - The Guantánamo Docket}}</ref>

Edham Mamet is one of the 22 [[Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo|Uighurs held in Guantanamo]] for many years despite the fact that it became clear early on that they were innocent.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/02/innocent_detainees_need_a_home/ | work=The Boston Globe | title=Innocent detainees need a home | first1=Bill | last1=Delahunt | first2=Sabin | last2=Willett | date=2009-04-02}}</ref><ref>http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/17-innocent-uighurs-detained-guant%C3%A1namo-ask-supreme-court-release</ref><ref name=AsiaTimes041104>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.html China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo], ''[[Asia Times]]'', November 4, 2004</ref>

He won his [[habeas corpus]] in 2008. Judge [[Ricardo Urbina]] declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the [[United States]]. He was sent to [[Palau]] in October 2009.

==Determined not to be an enemy combatant after all==

The [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] announced on 30 September 2008 that Nag Mohammed, and the sixteen other Uyghurs who remained in Guantanamo, would no longer be treated as enemy combatants.<ref name=UyghurNLECNotice2008-09-30>
{{cite web
|url=http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/files/Notice.pdf
|title=notice of status
|publisher=[[United States Department of Justice]]
|author=[[Gregory G. Katsas]]
|date=2008-09-30
|accessdate=2008-10-18
|quote=
|deadurl=bot: unknown
|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5bQejpFKn?url=http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/files/Notice.pdf
|archivedate=2008-10-09
|df=
}}
</ref>

==Writ of Habeas Corpus==

A [[writ of habeas corpus]], [[Nag Mohammed v. George W. Bush]], was submitted on Nag Mohammed's behalf.<ref name=GuantanamoHabeasNagMohammedvGeorgeWBush>
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/publicly_filed_CSRT_records_698-814.pdf#1
| title=Nag Mohammed v. George W. Bush
| date=19 September 2005
| pages=1–30
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| accessdate=2007-12-17
}}</ref>
In response, on 19 September 2005
the Department of Defense released 30
pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

===Denial of transfer to the USA===

[[US District Court Judge]] [[Ricardo Urbina]] had scheduled the session where the Executive Branch would file the evidence that justified classifying the remaining Uyghurs as "enemy combatants" for 7 October 2008.
On 30 September 2008 [[Gregory G. Katsas]], the United States' [[Assistant Attorney General]] ''"notice of status"'' stated that the seventeen remaining Uyghur captives would no longer be treated as enemy combatants.

Lawyers for the Uyghurs pointed out that some of the Uyghurs remained in solitary confinement in [[Camp 6 (Guantanamo)|Camp 6]]. And the Department of Defense agreed that since the men were no longer to be treated as enemy combatants they would all be transferred to [[Camp Iguana]].

On 7 October 2008, when the Department of Justice did not file the evidence justifying classifying the Uyghurs as enemy combatants,
he issued an order requiring the Department of Defense to bring the Uyghurs to his court on 10 October 2008.

On 8 October 2008 the Department of Justice filed an Emergency Motion.
A three judge panel of Judges in the Washington Court of Appeals granted the Executive Branch a brief respite from complying with Judge Urbina's order.
The panel schedule its hearing of the Executive Branch's justification for 20 October 2008.

On 16 October 2008 the Department of Justice filed its justification for restriction

==Asylum in Palau==

In June 2009 the government of [[Palau]] announced that they would offer temporary asylum to some of the Uyghurs.<ref name=DoJ2009-10-31>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/October/09-ag-1179.html
| title=United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau
| publisher=[[United States Department of Justice]]
| date=2009-10-31
| author=
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov%2Fopa%2Fpr%2F2009%2FOctober%2F09-ag-1179.html&date=2009-10-31
| archivedate=2009-10-31
}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes2009-10-31>
{{cite news
| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/asia/01uighurs.html
| title=Uighurs Leave Guantánamo for Palau
| publisher=[[New York Times]]
| date=2009-10-31
| author=David Johnston
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F11%2F01%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F01uighurs.html&date=2009-10-31
| archivedate=2009-10-31
}}</ref><ref name=Bbc2009-10-31>
{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8336343.stm
| title=Guantanamo Uighurs sent to Palau
| publisher=[[BBC News]]
| date=2009-10-31
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fworld%2Fasia-pacific%2F8336343.stm&date=2009-10-31
| archivedate=2009-10-31
}}</ref>
The government of Palau sent a delegation Guantanamo, and interviewed some of the remaining Uyghurs.
Some of the Uyghurs declined to be interviewed by the Palauns. In the end the government of Palau offered asylum to twelve of the remaining thirteen Uyghurs. Palau declined to offer asylum to one of the Uyghurs who suffered from a mental disorder, brought on by detention, that was too profound to be treated in Palau.

On October 31, 2009 "Edham Mamet", [[Ahmad Tourson]], [[Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman]], [[Anwar Hassan]], [[Dawut Abdurehim]] and [[Adel Noori]] were released and transferred to Palau.<ref name=DoJ2009-10-31/><ref name=NYTimes2009-10-31/><ref name=Bbc2009-10-31/><ref name=Afp2009-10-31>
{{cite news
| url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j256OdOnArVNzoV0oVLD3PRaY-bQ
| title=Six Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Palau: US
| publisher=[[Agence France Presse]]
| date=2009-10-31
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fafp%2Farticle%2FALeqM5j256OdOnArVNzoV0oVLD3PRaY-bQ&date=2009-10-31
| archivedate=2009-10-31
}}</ref><ref name=Pacific2009-10-31>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1343:6-muslim-uighurs-arrive-in-palau-from-guantanamo&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
| title=6 Muslim Uighur Detainees From Guantanamo Arrive In Palau
| publisher=[[Pacific News Center]]
| date=2009-11-01
| author=
| archiveurl=https://archive.is/20091101015815/http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1343:6-muslim-uighurs-arrive-in-palau-from-guantanamo&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
| archivedate=2009-11-01
| dead-url=yes
| accessdate=2009-09-26
}}</ref>

On June 29, 2015, Nathan Vanderklippe, reporting in the ''[[Globe and Mail]]'', wrote that all the Uyghurs had quietly left Palau.<ref name=GlobeAndMail2015-06-28>
{{cite news
| url = http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/after-guantanamo-life-on-pacific-island-was-difficult/article25172787/
| title = After Guantanamo, life on Pacific island was difficult
| publisher = [[Globe and Mail]]
| author = Nathan Vanderklippe
| date = 2015-06-28
| page =
| location = [[Beijing]]
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150630062759/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/after-guantanamo-life-on-pacific-island-was-difficult/article25172787/
| archivedate = 2015-06-30
| deadurl = No
| quote = In exchange for money from the U.S. – including $93,333 (U.S.) for each man – Palau allowed the Uyghurs to trade life behind barbed-wire fences for life in one of earth’s most isolated places, an island chain with a local population of just 20,000.
}}
</ref>
The ''Globe'' confirmed that Palau's agreement to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments. Those payments included $93,333 to cover each Uyghurs living expenses. The ''Globe'' confirmed that controversy still surrounded former President [[Johnson Toribiong]] who had used some of those funds to billet the Uyghurs in houses belonging to his relatives.

Vanderklippe reported that the men had never felt they could fit in with the Palauns.<ref name=GlobeAndMail2015-06-28/>
Some of the men compared Palau with a lusher, larger Guantanamo. Some of the men were able to bring their wives to Palau. Attempts to hold most regular jobs failed, due to cultural differences. Attempts to use their traditional leather-working skills to be self-employed failed. Eventually, all six men were employed as night-time security guards, a job that did not require interaction with Palauns.

Tragically, one of the men's young toddler, conceived and born on Palau, died after he fell off a balcony.<ref name=GlobeAndMail2015-06-28/>
According to Vanderklippe, the men's departure from Palau was quietly arranged with cooperation with American officials. He reported they left, one or two at a time, on commercial flights. Palaun officials would not share the Uyghurs destination.

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

== External links ==
*[http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/09/from-guantanamo-to-the-united-states-the-story-of-the-wrongly-imprisoned-uighurs/ From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs] [[Andy Worthington]] October 9, 2008
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100623230325/http://ccrjustice.org/files/2008-10-09%20Kiyemba%20corrected%20release%20order%20(2008-10-09).pdf Judge Ricardo Urbina’s unclassified opinion (redacted version)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620091607/http://ccrjustice.org/files/2008-10-07%20Kiyemba%20-%20Uighur%20hearing%20transcript.pdf MOTIONS/STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES BEFORE THE HONORABLE RICARDO M. URBINA]
* [http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=475911 Palau Uyghurs try to build new lives] [[Kyodo News]] December 15, 2009
* Human Rights First; [http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/Habeas-Works-final-web.pdf Habeas Works: Federal Courts’ Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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