Edham Mamet (born May 4, 1975) (also Nag Mohammed)[1][2][3][4][5] is a Uyghur refugee best known for the more than seven years he spent in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate Nag Mohammed was born on May 4, 1975, in Ghulja, Xinjiang, China.
[1] The Department of Justice announced on September 30, 2008, that Nag Mohammed, and the sixteen other Uyghurs who remained in Guantanamo, would no longer be treated as enemy combatants.
[11] In response, on September 19, 2005, the Department of Defense released 30 pages of unclassified documents related to his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
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 October 7, 2008.
On October 16, 2008, the Department of Justice filed its justification for restriction, In June 2009, the government of Palau announced that they would offer temporary asylum to some of the Uyghurs.
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.