List of Libyan detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. 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.[1]

On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.[1]

Name Arrival
date 		Departure
date 		Notes
2002-05-05 2016-04-04 Transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04
2002-01-16 2006-12-15
  • Named differently on the official lists of names.
  • Captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.[12]
  • Allegedly an employee of the Pakistani Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat.[13]
  • Released on December 18, 2006.[14]
2002-02-09
2002-05-05 2007-09-28
2002-06-18 2010-03-23
  • His case was considered by two Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The first Tribunal in November 2004 determined he had not been an "enemy combatant" and there was no evidence of al-Qaeda involvement. A second Tribunal was convened 55 days later with new members, in Washington, at which neither the detainee nor his representative was present. Claiming new "secret" information, the tribunal in January 2005 found him to be an enemy combatant. His attorney reviewed the files in 2006 and found there was no new information, secret or otherwise, and described the ruling as a "kangaroo court."[18] [19] No charges were ever filed against him.
  • Transferred to Georgia on March 23, 2010.
2002-06-18
2002-08-05 2016-04-04 Released in Senegal.
2002-08-05
2002-08-05 2010-02-24
  • Transferred to Albania.
2002-08-05 2007-12-19
  • His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, the legal director of Reprieve alleges that Deghayes was blinded by pepper spray used by guards inside the Guantanamo prison.[20]
  • Transferred to the United Kingdom.[21]
2002-08-05 2007-11-02
  • Transferred to Jordan on November 2, 2007.[22]

Notes and References

  1. News: Guantanamo four arrive in Europe . BBC News. 2010-02-24. 2010-02-24. 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. .
  2. Web site: Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- . 29 September 2004 . OARDEC . 4–5 . . 2007-12-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071211094621/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#4 . 11 December 2007. OARDEC .
  3. Web site: Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004259/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf . December 3, 2007. OARDEC .
  4. Web site: Index for testimony . OARDEC . . September 4, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004301/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf . December 3, 2007. OARDEC .
  5. Web site: Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One . OARDEC . . August 9, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130459/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf . October 26, 2007. OARDEC .
  6. Web site: Transcripts and Certain Documents from Administrative Review Boards Round Two . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130526/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_Transcripts_ARB2.pdf . October 26, 2007. OARDEC .
  7. Web site: Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two . OARDEC . . July 17, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130524/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf . October 26, 2007. OARDEC .
  8. Web site: Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two . OARDEC . . August 10, 2007 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080227125640/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf . February 27, 2008. OARDEC .
  9. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futuri, Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur . 11 July 2005 . OARDEC . 31–33 . . 2007-12-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071214105656/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#31 . 14 December 2007. OARDEC .
  10. Web site: Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futri, Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani . 18 April 2006 . OARDEC . 91–94 . . 2007-12-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071214101738/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#91 . 14 December 2007. OARDEC .
  11. News: Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody . . April 17, 2007 . 2008-05-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090327090515/http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf . March 27, 2009.
  12. http://www.dod.mil/pub/foi/detainees/csrt_Mar05.pdf#244 Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf)
  13. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_46_3096-3129.pdf#29 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)
  14. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Yemen_Guantanamo.html 6 Yemenis released from Guantanamo
  15. News: Pentagon frees eight Guantanamo detainees: The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term with a detainee-rights issue . . 1 October 2007 . 2008-04-16.
  16. News: WikiLeaks: Guantanamo detainee is now Libyan rebel leader. Holly Watt. The Daily Telegraph. April 26, 2011. 2011-04-29. Katni.
  17. News: Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee involved in consulate attack, intelligence sources say. 19 September 2012. Fox News.
  18. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-candace-gorman-/secrets-of-the-war-crimin_b_34505.html H. Candace Gorman, "Secrets of the War Criminals"
  19. Web site: No-hearing hearings. 34. Mark Denbeaux. Joshua Denbeaux. David Gratz. John Gregorek. Matthew Darby. Shana Edwards. Shane Hartman. Daniel Mann. Megan Sassaman. Helen Skinner. Seton Hall University School of Law. April 2, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20080802031333/http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf. August 2, 2008. dead.
  20. http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091001113010/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article%2D16680139%2Dman%2Dblinded%2Dat%2Dguantanamo.do "Man blinded at Guantanamo"
  21. News: Guantanamo Docket: Omar Amer Deghayes. New York Times. Margot Williams. 2008-11-03. 2013-06-20. Margot Williams.
  22. News: Ibrahim Mahdi Achmed Zeidan - The Guantánamo Docket. The New York Times . 18 May 2021 .

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