Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered that he be set free in the United States.
Abdurehim's memo accused him of the following:[6][7] On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff, the Department of Defense published a nine-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
[9] In response, on September 8, 2006, the Department of Defense released 31 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
However, the CSRT "urges favourable consideration for the detainee's release," with no forcible return to China.Dawut Abdurehim testified on behalf of Abdul Razak.
[10] Dawut Abdurehim testified that Abdul Razak had made two deliveries of food to the Uyghur camp, and that he was not involved in combat.
Dawut Abdurehim confirmed that they had fled the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan with the other Uyghurs, through the mountains, into Pakistan, where they were turned over to the Pakistani authorities.
In September 2007, the Department of Defense released all the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards convened in 2006.
On June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court restored the Guantanamo captives' access to the USA's civilian justice system in its ruling on Boumediene v. Bush.
[16][17][18][19][20] On June 29, 2015, Nathan Vanderklippe, reporting in The Globe and Mail, wrote that all the Uyghurs had quietly left Palau.
[21] The Globe confirmed that Palau's agreement to give refuge to the Uyghurs was reached after the USA agreed to various secret payments.
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.