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List of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Detainees by nationality. Afghan (29%) Saudis (17%) Yemenis (15%) Pakistanis (9%) Algerians (3%) Others (27%) As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [1][2][3] This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is ...
Muin al-Din Jamal al-Din al-Fadil Abd al-Sattar. Omar al-Farouq. 2002. Stateless Rohingya. Myanmar prior to the 2017 Rohingya genocide. 6. Suhayl Abduh Anam al-Sharabi. Abdul Mohammed Abdul Anam Suhail.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp[note 1] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants ...
Six Uyghur captives in Guantanamo were transferred to Palau in October 2009. The move was called controversial because Palau is a former protectorate of the US, which still received much of its annual budget in the form of grants from the US. Portugal. 2009-08-28.
As early as 2004, the US government claimed that detainees released from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp had returned to the battlefield. [2] Initially, government spokesmen claimed relatively small numbers of former Guantanamo captives had returned to the battlefield. In a press briefing on March 6, 2007, a "Senior Defense official" commented: [3]
As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [5] The United States Department of Defense (DoD) was under a court order from United States District Court Judge Jed Rakoff to release the names of all the detainees by 6:00 p.m. EST on March 3, 2006. The Department of Defense did not meet this deadline.
Executive Order 13493 is an Executive Order issued by United States President Barack Obama ordering the identification of lawful alternatives to the detention of captives in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. [1] The full title of the order is Executive Order 13493 - Review of Detention Policy Options .
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. [1] A total of 780 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660.