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 Gua ...
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 secu ...
(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
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* Department of National Defence (Canada)
* Department of Defence (Ireland)
* Department of National Defense (Philipp ...
'' 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
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' 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 estab ...
'', 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 in ...
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 (Philipp ...
'', May 15, 2006[US names 759 Guantanamo inmates]
''The Age
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'', May 16, 2006. On June 17, 2013, the ''
Miami Herald
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'' published a list, obtained using the
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* ...
, of 48 prisoners who were designated for indefinite detainment.
On May 31, 2014, the
Obama Administration
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...
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, 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
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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 Bas ...
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Faisalabad Three
Guantanamo detainees by nationality
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Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
According to the United States US Department of Defense, 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 th ...
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American detainees at Guantanamo Bay
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Bahraini captives in Guantanamo
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Bosnian captives in Guantanamo
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British captives in Guantanamo
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Danish captives in Guantanamo
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Egyptian captives in Guantanamo
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French captives in Guantanamo
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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. 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
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Libyan captives in Guantanamo
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Moroccan captives in Guantanamo
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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
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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 cla ...
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Spanish captives in Guantanamo
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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
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Syrian captives in Guantanamo
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Tajik captives in Guantanamo
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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 l ...
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Uzbek captives 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 det ...
References
External links
Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1)-
Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a British historian, investigative journalist, and film director.
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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