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
missing from the official list.
One citizen of
Uzbekistan is listed as a Russian.
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 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 ...
.
Russian detainees in Guantanamo
References
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