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. Hundreds of detainees were released without charges.
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that detainees had the right under habeas corpus to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, transfers to Guantanamo decreased.
Nineteen "high value detainees" have been transferred by the CIA to Guantanamo since September 2006, as the administration restricted their access to outside counsel and courts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This provision of the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), which said detainees had the right of access to federal courts for habeas corpus challenges. As of February 24, 2010, the camp population stood at 188.[2]
On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.[2]
ISN | Name | Arrival date |
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Notes |
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189 | Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby | 2002-05-05 | 2016-04-04 | Transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04[3] |
194 | 2002-01-16 | 2006-12-15 |
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263 | Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan | 2002-02-09 | ||
557 | Abu Sufian bin Qumu | 2002-05-05 | 2007-09-28 |
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654 | Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi | 2002-06-18 | 2010-03-23 |
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685 | Abdelrazak Ali Abdelrahman | 2002-06-18 | ||
695 | Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr | 2002-08-05 | 2016-04-04 | Released in Senegal.[3] |
708 | Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush | 2002-08-05 | ||
709 | Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin | 2002-08-05 | 2010-02-24 |
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727 | Omar Deghayes | 2002-08-05 | 2007-12-19 |
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761 | Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan | 2002-08-05 | 2007-11-02 |
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A Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan were sent to Albania, while a Palestinian was sent to Spain. The Palestinian is the first of five inmates that Spain has agreed to take. Albania has taken eight detainees.
The United States military has transferred two Libyan detainees to Senegal from its wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, government officials said on Monday, the first time Senegal has resettled a Guantánamo prisoner.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detainees by nationality
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Total of 790 detainees, according to the Guantanamo Docket[1]. |