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American lawyer For other people with the same name, see Thomas Johnson (disambiguation).Tom Johnson is a Portland lawyer, working for the firm, Perkins Coie.
Johnson volunteered to serve as a lawyer to a Guantanamo detainee, a 33-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan named Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev.
Batayev describes being kidnapped by fundamentalist Muslims allied to the Taliban during a trip to Tajikistan to sell fruit, who then traded him to the Taliban, who used him as a kitchen slave. Following the American bombing, everyone fled the Taliban camp where he was held. Batayev described fleeing and subsequently being captured by fundamentalist Muslims allied to the US in return for a bounty.
Main article: American prisoners who were previously Taliban prisonersReferences
- ^ Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, Willamette Week, August 9, 2006
- Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47
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