As of October 29, 2022,
This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
in
Cuba
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, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official documents, the
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national secur ...
(DoD) continues to make intermittent efforts to
redact prisoner's names. they had not published an official list of detainees. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names in what appears to be a
fax
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or other scanned image.
['List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process' (PDF, scanned)]
''Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to:
Current departments of defence
* Department of Defence (Australia)
* Department of National Defence (Canada)
* Department of Defence (Ireland)
* Department of National Defense (Philippin ...
'' April 19, 2006. The
Associated Press
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published the list in more accessible text form.
['Official Pentagon List of Detainees /page not found Nov 2018' (Text version of DoD list)]
''Associated Press
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'' April 19, 2006.
''
The Washington Post
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'' maintains a list of the prisoners known or suspected to have been held in Guantánamo Bay.
[List of Guantánamo detainee names]
''Washington Post
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'' On March 3, 2006 the DoD partially complied with a
court order
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to release the names of the remaining Guantánamo detainees. The court order required the DoD to release the names of all the detainees.
[US to release partial list of Guantánamo detainees]
, ''Reuters
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The agency was est ...
'', March 3, 2006 Initially, the DoD released only 317 names. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names. Although Judge
Jed Rakoff
Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Education
Rakoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1943. He grew up ...
had already dismissed this argument, Pentagon spokesmen Bryan Whitman justified withholding the names out of a concern for the detainees' privacy. On April 20, 2006, the DoD released a
portable document format
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file that listed 558 names.
The 558 individuals on the list were those whose detention had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT). The list gave the detainee's ID number, their name, and their home country.
The names of several hundred prisoners who had been released prior to the commencement of the CSRTs were not released. The list did not specify whether the prisoners were still in detention at Guantanamo; whether they had been determined to be "enemy combatants"; whether they were released, or repatriated to the custody of their home countries. On May 15, 2006, the DOD released what they called a complete list of all 759 former and current inmates who had been held in military custody in the detainment camps after a
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(FOIA) action was filed by the
Associated Press
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.
[Archive of Official list of all Guantanamo prisoners]
''Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to:
Current departments of defence
* Department of Defence (Australia)
* Department of National Defence (Canada)
* Department of Defence (Ireland)
* Department of National Defense (Philippin ...
'', May 15, 2006[US names 759 Guantanamo inmates]
''The Age
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'', May 16, 2006. On June 17, 2013, the ''
Miami Herald'' published a list, obtained using the
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* Freedom of Information Act 1982, the Australian act
* ...
, of 48 prisoners who were designated for indefinite detainment.
On May 31, 2014, the
Obama Administration was reported to have swapped 5 prisoners (Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Nori, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mohammed Nabi and Mohammed Fazi) in return for Sergeant
Bowe Bergdahl
Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Bergdahl was captured after deserting his post on Ju ...
who was captured after deserting his post.
On January 16, 2017, the Federal government of the United States announced that ten more prisoners were released to Oman, leaving about 45 detainees. Of all prisoners at Guantanamo, Afghans were the largest group (29 percent), followed by Saudi Arabians (17 percent), Yemenis (15 percent), Pakistanis (9 percent), and Algerians (3 percent). Overall, 50 nationalities were present at Guantanamo.
List
779 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo.
By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining.
CSRT is
Combatant Status Review Tribunals
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were estab ...
.
Individuals with "SAMWL" are listed on the
Saudi Arabian most wanted list Periodically Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior publishes a most wanted list.
According to ''Asharq Alawsat'' Saudi Arabia has published four lists of "most wanted" suspected terrorists, and those lists contained 19, 26, 36 and 85 indi ...
, released in February 2009.
Details about seven deaths reported as suicides and reports of attempted suicides is at
Guantanamo suicide attempts
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) had stopped reporting Guantanamo suicide attempts in 2002. In mid-2002 the DoD changed the way they classified suicide attempts, and enumerated them under other acts of "self-injurious behavior".
On ...
.
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See also
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List of current detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Held in law-of-war detention but recommended for transfer if security conditions met
Held in indefinite law-of-war detention and not recommended for transfer
Charged in military commissions system
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Guantanamo Bay captives habeas corpus
In United States law, ''habeas corpus'' is a recourse challenging the reasons or conditions of a person's detention under color of law. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. ...
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Faisalabad Three The Faisalabad Three is a term used to refer to three of Guantanamo detainees facing charges before military commissions.
Jabran Said bin al Qahtani, Sufyian Barhoumi and Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi were captured in a safehouse in Faisalabad, ...
Guantanamo detainees by nationality
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Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following the US and allies' invasion ...
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American detainees at Guantanamo Bay
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Bahraini captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding six Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo.
A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 1 ...
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Bosnian captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately a dozen Bosnian citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay.
A total of 778 detainees have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on Janua ...
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British captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense held a total of nine British detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. An additional nine detainees were citizens of other nations who had been granted permanent residency status in the United Kingdom.
A ...
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Danish captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding one Danish captive in Guantanamo.
A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, ...
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Egyptian captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding eight Egyptian detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on Ja ...
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French captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense held seven French detainees in Guantanamo.
All of those French detainees were released from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp by 2005.
A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention i ...
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Iraqi detainees at Guantanamo Bay
There were initially 16
Iraqi detainees in Guantanamo.
In 2005, nine Iraqi citizens were held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ) ...
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Kazakhstani captives in Guantanamo
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Kuwaiti captives in Guantanamo
Twelve Kuwaiti detainees were held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
The last Kuwaiti, Fayiz Al Kandari, was repatriated in January 2016. The US had accused the 12 Kuwaitis of being associa ...
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Libyan captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 20 ...
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Moroccan captives in Guantanamo
There have been approximately fifteen Moroccans detained in Guantanamo.
The United States maintained over 750 captives in extrajudicial detention in
the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
Different sources offer different estimates of t ...
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Pakistani captives in Guantanamo
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Russian captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding nine Russian detainees in Guantanamo.
However, the actual number of Russian citizens in Guantanamo remains unclear. Several men known to have been held in Guantanamo are Guantanamo capti ...
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Saudi captives in Guantanamo
A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002. Most had been swept up in Afghanistan following the US invasion in the fall of 2001, and they were clas ...
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Spanish captives in Guantanamo
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
** Spanish cuisine
Other places
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Sudanese captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding twelve Sudanese captives in Guantanamo. A total of 779 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January ...
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Swedish captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding one Swedish captive in Guantanamo.
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali, the sole Swedish captive in Guantanamo, was repatriated prior to the institution of the Combatant Status Review Tribun ...
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Syrian captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense was holding a total of eleven
Syrian detainees in Guantanamo.
A total of 778 suspects have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002
The camp popula ...
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Tajik captives in Guantanamo
On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 12 Tajik detainees held in Guantanamo.[Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Starting in 2002, the American government detained 22 Uyghurs in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. The last 3 Uyghur detainees, Yusef Abbas, Hajiakbar Abdulghupur and Saidullah Khalik, were released from Guantanamo on December 29, 2013, and late ...]
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Uzbek captives in Guantanamo
On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 7 Uzbek detainees held in Guantanamo.
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Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay
The United States has held a total of 115 Yemeni citizens at Guantanamo Bay, forty-two of whom have since been transferred out of the facility. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a greater number of their citizens held in the Guantanamo Bay dete ...
References
External links
Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1)-
Andy Worthington
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He has published three books, two on Stonehenge and one on the war on terror, been published in numerous publications and directed documentary films. Artic ...
Names of the Detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba(
sorted by nationality)
Associated Press Guantánamo Detainee Court Documents Archive*
Office of the Secretary of Defense & Joint Staff—FOIA Requester Service Center
Executive Order Task Force—Guantanamo Final Review Dispositions as of January 22, 2010Pentagon charges 6 in 9-11 attacks'Clean team' interrogated 9-11 suspectsNew York Times Guantanamo research database
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