Omar Abdulayev

Omar Hamzayavich Abdulayev, also known as Muhammadi Davlatov, (born October 11, 1978) is a citizen of Tajikistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. He arrived at Guantanamo on February 9, 2002.

Abdulayev was transferred to Serbia on July 11, 2016.

Carol Rosenberg wrote that reviewing his files indicates he was a cooperative captive, who did not participate in the widespread hunger strikes, and that, unlike other captives, he participated in all his annual status reviews. In 2009, the Obama government decided they would no longer claim Omar was an enemy combatant. Omar is one of the Guantanamo captives who, even though he had been cleared for release, said he would rather stay in Guantanamo than be repatriated to his home country because he feared torture.

Transfer considerations

Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reports that Omar Abdulayev fears being repatriated to Tajikistan, and wants to remain in Guantanamo. All efforts to contact them, following his 2001 capture, had failed.

O'Hara said Abdulayev's father died in 1994, attempting to return to Tajikistan. O'Hara said two of the other Tajikistanis received long prison terms following their repatriation.

Press reports stated a Tajik captive named "Muhammadi Davlatov" was transferred to Serbia on July 11, 2016, together with Yemeni captive Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi.