The

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held seven French detainees in Guantanamo. All of those French detainees were released from the

Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

by 2005. A total of 778 detainees have been held in

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in the Guantanamo detention camps, in

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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

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'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 corp ...

. The last French citizens were repatriated in March 2005. Note that there is a 2009 date above the article, but the actual date of the article is in the URL. Six of the men faced charges in France upon repatriation. Five of the men were convicted. Their convictions were overturned, on appeal, in February 2009. On February 17, 2010, the

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, the highest court in France, ordered a re-trial of the five men.

French detainees in Guantanamo

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:French detainees In Guantanamo * Lists of Guantanamo Bay detainees by nationality France–United States relations