The
United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding three Palestinian detainees in Guantanamo.
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A total of 778 detainees have been held in
extrajudicial detention in 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 ...
s, in
Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002
The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only twenty 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 ...
.
Cageprisoners states a fourth individual, named
Hussein Azzam, is a former detainee at Guantanamo.
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On September 16, 2009 Hungary agreed to accept the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee from Palestine.
On February 24, 2010, Spain accepted the transfer of an individual Guantanamo detainee from Palestine.
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The former detainee will be free to live and work in Spain, and to travel freely within Spain, but he will not be allowed to travel from Spain to other countries.
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To preserve the detainee's privacy Spanish authorities did not make his name public.
According to Press reports relatives have confirmed that
Walid Hijazi, a man from the
Gaza strip
The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...
, is the newly released Palestinian.
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References
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