List of Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

The United States Department of Defense was holding a total of elevenSyrian 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, 2002The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660.

Syrian detainees at Guantanamo

	name	arrival date	departure date	notes
		2002-02-11	2010-07-20	Transferred to Cape Verde in July 2010.
		2002-02-11	2009-08-28	Transferred to Portugal on 2009-08-28.^[2] ^[3]
		2002-02-12	2009-08-28	Transferred to Portugal on 2009-08-28.
		2002-06-14	2014-12-07	Released to Uruguay on December 7, 2014.^[4]
		2002-06-14	2014-12-07	Released to Uruguay on December 7, 2014.
		2002-06-08	2014-12-07	Released to Uruguay on December 7, 2014.
		2002-06-10	2010-05-04	Released to Bulgaria on May 4, 2010.
		2002-05-01		Transferred to Belgium.^[5]
			2010-09-16	Released to Germany on September 16, 2010.^[6]
	Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab aka Abu Wa'el Dhiab^[7]	2002-08-05	2014-12-07	Released to Uruguay on December 7, 2014.
		2002-08-05	2004-03-31	Fethi Boucetta was one of the 38 captives determined not to have been enemy combatants after all.

Wives

In 2008, Human Rights Watch reported:^[8]

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.

External links

• Ahmed Adnan Ahjam's Guantanamo detainee assessment via Wikileaks
• Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban's Guantanamo detainee assessment via Wikileaks
• Abd Al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj's Guantanamo detainee assessment via Wikileaks
• Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab's (Abu Wa'el Dhiab's) Guantanamo detainee assessment via Wikileaks

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
2. News: Court documents name detainees sent to Portugal . 2009-08-31 . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . . https://archive.today/20240524112817/https://www.webcitation.org/5jRbF95jb?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1210582.html . 2024-05-24 . 2009-08-02 . dead.
3. Web site: Civil Action No. 05-CV-0526 . 2004 . 3–30 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002160219/http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2009/08/31/10/portugal2.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf . 2011-10-02 . dead.
4. News: Uruguay accepts six Guantanamo prisoners for resettlement . https://web.archive.org/web/20141211130144/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN0JL0A020141207?sp=true . dead . December 11, 2014 . . Spetalnick . Matt . December 7, 2014 . December 7, 2014.
5. News: Le " Belge " de Guantánamo est un jeune Syrien de 31 ans. LALLEMAND, ALAIN. LALLEMAND, ALAIN. October 17, 2009.
6. News: Camps census now 174: Germany takes in two Arab captives from Guantánamo . . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . 2010-09-16 . 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. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714084238/http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/16/1827559/germany-takes-in-2-guantanamo.html . 2011-07-14.
7. News: South Africa turns away former hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee . . 16 December 2016.
8. News: Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown. Human Rights Watch. 2008-08-18. 2008-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20081113074710/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/18/syria19636.htm. 2008-11-13. dead.