The
United States Department of Defense
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acknowledges holding Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo.
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A total of 779 detainees have been held in
extrajudicial detention
Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...
in the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...
s, in
Cuba
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since the camps opened on January 11, 2002
The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the
United States Supreme Court
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's ruling in
Rasul v. Bush
''Rasul v. Bush'', 542 U.S. 466 (2004), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of ''habeas corp ...
.
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By July 2012 the camp held 168 captives.
On February 24, 2010,
Carol Rosenberg, of the ''
Miami Herald
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'', reported that
Albania
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accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Tunisian,
Saleh Bin Hadi Asasi and
Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad and
Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al Qusin, an
Egyptian
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Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
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* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...
, and a
Libyan
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The men will not be allowed to leave Albania.
On July 27, 2012, '' Tunisia Live'' asserted the five remaining Tunisian captives would be repatriated by the end of 2012.[
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Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo
References
External links
Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians
Andy Worthington
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