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 ...
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'', March 3, 2006 Initially, the DoD released only 317 names. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names. Although Judge
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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 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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, of 48 prisoners who were designated for indefinite detainment. On May 31, 2014, the
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was reported to have swapped 5 prisoners (Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Nori, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mohammed Nabi and Mohammed Fazi) in return for Sergeant
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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.
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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.
Individuals with "SAMWL" are listed on the
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, released in February 2009.
Details about seven deaths reported as suicides and reports of attempted suicides is at
Guantanamo suicide attempts
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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
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
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. Eight of them have been repatriated, four as late as 2009. Among them Abdul Hadi al I ...
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Kazakhstani captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding four Kazakh 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 ...
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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
According to the United States Department of Defense, there were five dozen Pakistani detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on January 11, 2002. In the summer of 2004, following the United ...
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
sorted by nationality
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