List of Russian detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding nine Russian detainees in Guantanamo.^[1] However, the actual number of Russian citizens in Guantanamo remains unclear. Several men known to have been held in Guantanamo are missing from the official list.One citizen of Uzbekistan is listed as a Russian.

A total of 778 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. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high-value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush.

Russian detainees in Guantanamo

Russian detainees in Guantanamo

isn	name	arrival date	departure date	notes
82			2004-02-27	Repatriated to Russia on January 3, 2004. Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004 with six other Russian men.^[2] Also called "Abdullah D. Kafkas".
203		2002-01-21	2004-02-27	Repatriated to Russia on January 3, 2004. Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004 with six other Russian men. Alleged to have played a role in a 2005 bombing.^[3] Defense Intelligence Agency classifies him as a former detainee who "returned to terrorism".
209		2002-01-21	2004-02-27	Repatriated to Russia on January 3, 2004. Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004 with six other Russian men. Granted asylum by the Netherlands.^[4] ^[5]
211		2002-06-14	2004-02-27	Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004, as "Ruslan Anatolovich Odijev", with six other Russian men. Charged with a role in bombing a gas pipeline in 2005.^[6] Shot by police in 2007.^[7] Human Rights advocates argue he was falsely accused. Defense Intelligence Agency classifies him as a former detainee who "returned to terrorism".^[8]
492		2002-06-14	2004-02-27	Repatriated to Russia on January 3, 2004. Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004 with six other Russian men.
573		2002-05-01	2004-02-27	Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004 with six other Russian men.
672		2002-06-08	2006-11-17	NLEC
674		2002-06-14	2004-02-27	Repatriated to Russia. Reported to have been repatriated on 24 February 2004, as "Timur Ravilich Ismurat", with six other Russian men. Alleged to have played a role in a 2005 bombing.
702		2002-10-28	2017-01-18

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: Consolidate chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased. United States Department of Defense. OARDEC. OARDEC. 2008-10-09. 2008-12-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081227004519/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/09-F-0031_doc1.pdf. 2008-12-27.
3. News: Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee Arrested In Moscow. Radio Free Europe. 2006-03-09. 2008-07-26. mirror
4. News: Taliban fighter from Russia seeks Dutch asylum. Axis Globe. 2007-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190131/http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1269. 2016-03-03. He arrived in that country on March 26 and told local officials in the airport that he is the victim of harassment by Russian intelligence. He is now living in the Ter Apel refugee accommodation center in The Netherlands, Kommersant reports today.. dead.
5. News: Q & A: Resettlement of Guantanamo Bay Detainees. Human Rights Watch. 2009-02-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20100110130843/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/02/23/q-resettlement-guantanamo-bay-detainees. 2010-01-10. dead.
6. Web site: List of official suspects on the run after the events of 13 October, 2005. 2008-04-14. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081022222438/http://www.guvdnn.ru/rozysk/3/index.htm. 2008-10-22.
7. Web site: Former Guantánamo detainee is killed in shoot-out in Russia. J. Chivers. International Herald Tribune. 2007-06-27. 2008-04-15. dead. https://archive.today/20080726223359/http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/27/europe/27russ.php. 2008-07-26.
8. News: Fact Sheet: Former GTMO Detainee Terrorism Trends. Defense Intelligence Agency. 2008-06-13. 2008-07-26. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080709112647/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20080613Returntothefightfactsheet.pdf. 2008-07-09.