Ravil Mingazov is a citizen of Russia who was held in extrajudicial detention for almost fifteen years in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Mingazov was born on December 5, 1967, in , Russia. Ravil Mingazov arrived at Guantanamo on October 28, 2002, and has been held at Guantanamo for 18 years, 7 months and 30 days. Mingazov, a member of the tatars ethnic group, was a ballet dancer, before he joined the Soviet army.Anti-Muslim harassment drove Mingazov to leave Russia for Tajikistan, in 2000.