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
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 ...
by 2005.
A total of 778 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 detention camps, in
Cuba 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'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 corpus ...
.
The last French citizens were repatriated in March 2005.
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Six of the men faced charges in France upon repatriation.
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Five of the men were convicted.
Their convictions were overturned, on appeal, in February 2009.
On February 17, 2010, the
Court of Cassation, the highest court in France, ordered a re-trial of the five men.
French detainees in Guantanamo
References
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Lists of Guantanamo Bay detainees by nationality
France–United States relations