List of juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp explained

Juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp numbered fifteen, according to a 2011 study by the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California Davis.[1] The U.S. State Department had publicly acknowledged twelve.[2] The US Department of Defense defined minors at Guantanamo as those below the age of 16, whereas they are defined as below the age of 18 in international law. Three juveniles aged below 16 were held in Camp Iguana, but others between 16 and 18 were put into the general population and treated as adults. These included Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was 15 when captured and one of the youngest detainees, 16 when transported to Guantanamo.

May 2008 report to the United Nations

On May 15, 2008 the American Civil Liberties Union published a report that the George W. Bush administration had submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.[3] The report stated that the USA had apprehended 2500 juveniles, 2400 of them in Iraq. It said that a total of ten juveniles had been held in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility in Afghanistan and that eight juveniles had been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.[4] [5] [6] [7]

List of known juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Department of Defense documents acknowledge that at least fifteen children were at one time imprisoned at Guantanamo:

Name ! scope="col" width="50" ISN ! scope="col" width="100" Date of birth ! scope="col" width="125" Transferred to Guantanamo ! scope="col" width="125" Age in years at transfer
930 -- -- 8807 Feb 02 13 - 14
912 -- -- 88 -- Dec 02 13 - 14
913 -- -- 88 -- Jan 03 14 - 15
269 -- -- 86 09 Feb 02 15 - 16
540 -- -- 86 11 Jun 02 15 - 16
783 -- -- 86 27 Oct 02 15 - 16
766 19 Sep 86 27 Oct 02 16
114 08 Sep 85 16 Jan 02 16
911 -- -- 86 06 Feb 03 16 - 17
929 -- -- 86 07 Feb 03 16 - 17
585 -- -- 85 15 Jun 02 16 - 17
132 14 Dec 84 20 Jan 02 17
093 22 Sep 84 20 Jan 02 17
301 20 Feb 84 07 Feb 02 17
067 18 Jan 84 17 Jan 02 17
In addition, the UC Davis report lists six detainees who might have been 17 at the time of transfer to Guantanamo:
Name ! scope="col" width="50" ISN ! scope="col" width="100" Date of birth ! scope="col" width="125" Transferred to Guantanamo ! scope="col" width="125" Age in years at transfer
900 -- -- 85 06 Feb 03 17 - 18
591 -- -- 84 10 Jun 02 17 - 18
545 -- -- 84 13 Jun 02 17 - 18
253 -- -- 84 17 Jun 02 17 - 18
908 -- -- 84 05 Aug 02 17 - 18
1052 -- -- 85 21 Nov 03 17 - 18

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: More youth at Guantánamo than U.S. claimed. June 7, 2011. November 11, 2011. UC Davis News Service.
  2. Web site: Guantanamo's Children: The Wikileaked Testimonies . UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas . November 11, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111113214515/http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/reports/guantanamos-children-the-wikileaked-testimonies/guantanamos-children-the-wikileaked-testimonies . 2011-11-13 . live.
  3. News: Walter Pincus . Walter Pincus . May 15, 2008 . U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants . A11 . . dead . 2008-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080725002056/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/14/ST2008051404032.html . July 25, 2008.
  4. News: US to review Gitmo juvenile numbers . . Frank Jordans . Frank Jordans . May 22, 2008 . 2008-05-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080525200804/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7QtOJzmUwHyoH1ivvKxGjFcBIxwD90QULN05 . May 25, 2008.
  5. News: U.S. criticized for handling of child detainees in Iraq . . May 21, 2008 . 2008-05-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080808144630/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.main/ . August 8, 2008.
  6. News: US Defends Policy Of Detention For Juveniles in Iraq, Afghanistan . . Lisa Schlein . Lisa Schlein . May 21, 2008 . 2008-05-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080525201310/http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-05-21-voa72.cfm . May 25, 2008.
  7. News: Frank Jordans . Frank Jordans . May 21, 2008 . Group criticizes US military for child detentions . . dead . 2008-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080525200804/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7QtOJzmUwHyoH1ivvKxGjFcBIxwD90QULN05 . May 25, 2008.