Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev
Guantanamo detainee
Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev or Elham Battayav (born 7 November 1973) was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 84. He was born in Abaye, Kazakhstan.
Batayev was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and he was transferred to Kazakhstan on 15 December 2006.
Tom Johnson, Batayev's lawyer
On 9 August 2006 Batayev's lawyer, Tom Johnson, of Portland, Oregon, was profiled by the Willamette Week.
Johnson remarked on how Batayev continued to keep his hopes up that he would eventually be released.
Habeas corpus submissions
Elham Battayav is one of the sixteen Guantanamo captives whose amalgamated habeas corpus submissions were heard by
US District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton on 31 January 2007.
Release
The Portland, Oregon law firm Perkins Cole issued a press release on 18 December 2006 announcing Ihlkham Battayav's release.
The press release stated:
The Perkins Coie team of Fortino, Tom Johnson and Cody Weston began representing Battayav, pro bono, in late 2004. The team made five trips to Guantanamo, numerous trips to the Kazakh embassy in Washington, D.C., and a trip to Kazakhstan to meet with his family, the Kazakh press and potential witnesses.
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