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Tom Johnson (lawyer)

Tom Johnson is a Portland lawyer, working for the firm, Perkins Coie.[1]

Johnson volunteered to serve as a lawyer to a Guantanamo detainee, a 33-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan named Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev.[1]

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.[1][2] 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.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, Willamette Week, August 9, 2006
  2. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47


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