Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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The United States Department of Defense was holding a total of eleven Syrian detainees in Guantanamo.[1] A total of 778 suspects have been held 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.

[edit] Syrian detainees at Guantanamo

isn name status notes
307 Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani

Transferred

  • Hold for over eight years without charges.
  • Transferred to Cape Verde in July 2010.
312 Muhammed Khan Tumani

Transferred

317 Moammar Badawi Dokhan

Transferred

326 Ahmed Adnan Ahjam

Held

327 Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban

Held

329 Abd Al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj

Held

330 Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad

Transferred

  • Held at Guantanamo for almost eight year without ever been charged.
  • Released to Bulgaria on May 4, 2010.
489 Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko

Transferred

537 Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali

Transferred

  • Never been charged during his more than eight years in Guantanamo.
  • Released to Germany on September 16, 2010.[5]
722 Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab Held
726 Menhal Al Henali Transferred
  • Fethi Boucetta was one of the 38 captives determined not to have been enemy combatants after all.

[edit] Wives

Human Rights Watch reports[6]:

"On July 31, State Security, one of Syria’s numerous security agencies, seized Yusra al-Husayn at her house and took her into detention. She is the wife of Jihad Diab, a detainee at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay."

[edit] References

  1. ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-29. 
  2. ^ a b Carol Rosenberg (2009-08-31). "Court documents name detainees sent to Portugal". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Fnation%2Fstory%2F1210582.html&date=2009-08-31. Retrieved 2009-08-02. 
  3. ^ a b OARDEC (2004). "Civil Action No. 05-CV-0526". United States Department of Justice. pp. pages 3–30. Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.miamiherald.com%2Fsmedia%2F2009%2F08%2F31%2F10%2Fportugal2.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf&date=2009-08-31. 
  4. ^ LALLEMAND,ALAIN (October 17, 2009). "Le « Belge » de Guantánamo est un jeune Syrien de 31 ans". http://archives.lesoir.be/le-belge-de-guantanamo-est-un-jeune-syrien-de-31-ans_t-20091017-00QEKD.html. 
  5. ^ Carol Rosenberg (2010-09-16). "Camps census now 174: Germany takes in two Arab captives from Guantánamo". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/16/1827559/germany-takes-in-2-guantanamo.html. Retrieved 2010-09-19. "The Pentagon reduced its Guantánamo prison camps census to 174 foreign captives on Thursday, announcing that it had sent two Arabs to resettlement in Germany."  mirror
  6. ^ "Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown". Human Rights Watch. 2008-08-18. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/18/syria19636.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-19. 
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