Who is held in guantanamo bay

Maldives 1. Uganda 1. Turkmenistan 1. Qatar 1. Denmark 1. Stateless Rohingya 1. Chad 1. Spain 1. Sweden 1. Bangladesh 1. Azerbaijan 1. United Arab Emirates 1. Oman United Arab Emirates Britain Albania France 9. Kazakhstan 9. Slovakia 8. Iraq 7. Russia 7. Uruguay 6. Georgia 6. Palau 6. Qatar 6. Jordan 5. Bosnia and Herzegovina 5. Bahrain 5.

Spain 5. Turkey 4. Bermuda 4. Somalia 3. Belgium 3. Italy 3. Switzerland 3. Germany 3. Tunisia 2. Iran 2. Portugal 2. Cape Verde 2. Egypt 2. Serbia 2. El Salvador 2. Ghana 2. Libya 2. Senegal 2. Montenegro 2. Ireland 2. United States 2. Canada 1. Estonia 1. Latvia 1. Hungary 1. Bulgaria 1. Informal decisions. Early in the Bush administration, officials released some who were deemed not to be of intelligence value or to pose a threat.

From to , the military held tribunals to determine whether a detainee met legal criteria for wartime detention as a member of the enemy force. The military then followed up with Administrative Review Board hearings to decide whether detainees should be transferred for policy reasons. From to , the task force, made up of six agencies, took a new look at the then-remaining detainees and recommended some for prosecution, others for transfer with security arrangements and a third group for continued detention without trial.

From to the present, a parolelike panel made up of six agencies has taken recurring looks at law-of-war detainees to determine whether it remained necessary to continue holding them.

Died while in custody 9 detainees. Ammar , al-Bataar. Known to have died after being transferred 29 detainees This category is incomplete and requires further information. Mullah Khadim , Abdul Rauf Aliza. Uthman Ahmed Uthman Umair al-Ghamdi. Mullah Shazada , Inshanullah. Ronald Fiddler , Jamal Udeen. Transferred detainees. Muhammed Dawood , Abu Muslim Australia. Abu Ghanim al-Yemeni , Mohammad Rajah. Saleh Sassi , Sayf Bin Abdallah.

Walid Hijazi , Mohammed al-Palestini. Abu Sarah , Kheder al-Janoubi. Abd al-Rahman Abdullah al-Halmandy. Awadh al-Bayhani , Ghalib al-Tabuki. Abu Taha , Taha al-Maghrebi. Muhammadi Davlatov , Omar al-Tajiki. Abu Ali , Abu Ayyub al-Emirati. Khalid Mullah Shayi al-Jilba al-Qahtani. Fayiz al-Kuwaiti , Abu Khallad. Abdullah al-Uzbeki , Abd al-Latif al-Turki. Of those, have been released or transferred, including one who was transferred to the U.

A fifth man was approved for release towards the end of the Trump presidency, and five more men have been approved for release since President Biden took office in January — three in May , and two more in June Ten men, therefore, are currently approved for release but still held. Trump released only one man in his four lamentable years in office, Ahmed al-Darbi, who was returned to Saudi Arabia for ongoing imprisonment in May , six weeks later than he was supposed to have been repatriated under the terms of a plea deal he agreed to four years earlier.

And now, in July , President Biden has also released a prisoner, sending Abdul Latif Nasser approved for release in back to his home in Morocco.

We hope to hear of more releases very soon. The prison had been open for 6, days when Biden was inaugurated on Jan. These releases were then followed by the repatriation of two Sudanese prisoners — Noor Uthman Muhammed, as the result of a plea deal in February , and Ibrahim Idris, who had been cleared for release by the task force, but whose eventual release was ordered by a judge after the Justice Department failed to contest his habeas corpus petition , accepting that he was severely mentally ill.

At the end of , three more men were given new homes in Slovakia — the last of the 22 Uighurs Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province whose release into the U. In March , another Algerian — Ahmed Belbacha — was repatriated , and on May 31, , five Taliban prisoners were released in Qatar, in exchange for the release of the sole U. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani Network since In December, six more men were released — four Syrians, a Palestinian and a Tunisian — who were accepted as refugees in Uruguay, and four Afghans were repatriated , and the very end of the year five more men — two Tunisians and three Yemenis — were sent to Kazakhstan.

In January , another five men — all Yemenis — were resettled. Four of the men were sent to Oman, while the fifth was sent to Estonia, and in June another six Yemenis were resettled in Oman. In September , a Moroccan was repatriated , and also a Saudi , who was a long-term hunger striker, and at the end of October a Mauritanian was repatriated , and Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, was released and returned to the U.

On November 13, five Yemenis were released , sent to the United Arab Emirates, where, sadly, they have been subjected to ongoing imprisonment.

As began, two Yemenis were released, and given new homes in Ghana , Fayiz al-Kandari, the last Kuwaiti in the prison, was released, as was a Saudi , and ten Yemenis were given new homes in Oman. On the eve of the seventh anniversary of President Obama's promise to close the prison within a year on January 22 , it was announced that two more men had been freed — an Egyptian in Bosnia, and a Yemeni in Montenegro.

In April, after over two months with no releases, two Libyans were given new homes in Senegal , although they were subsequently repatriated to Libya two years later, where they were imprisoned by militias, and nine Yemenis were then rehoused in Saudi Arabia. In June, another Yemeni was given a new home in Montenegro , and in July three more men were freed — one to Italy, and two to Serbia.

In August , the largest single release under President Obama took place, when 15 men — 12 Yemenis and three Afghans — were sent to the United Arab Emirates, although they too were then subjected to ongoing imprisonment.

Six of these men had been approved for release by Obama's task force in , and nine others had been approved for release by Periodic Review Boards. Ten men were released to Oman on Jan.