List of French detainees at Guantanamo Bay
The United States Department of Defense held seven French detainees in Guantanamo.[1] All of those French detainees were released from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp by 2005.[2]
A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo 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. As of December 2024[update], 27 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay.[3]
The last French citizens were repatriated in March 2005.[2] Six of the men faced charges in France upon repatriation.[4] Five of the men were convicted. Their convictions were overturned, on appeal, in February 2009. On February 17, 2010, the Court of Cassation, the highest court in France, ordered a re-trial of the five men.[4]
French detainees in Guantanamo
[edit]isn | name | notes |
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161 | Mourad Benchellali |
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164 | Imad Achab Kanouni | |
173 | Ridouane Khalid | |
236 | Khaled ben Mustafa | |
325 | Nizar Sassi | |
371 | Brahim Yadel | |
649 |
Mustaq Ali Patel |
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References
[edit]- ^ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ^ a b "Last of French Prisoners Return to France from Guantanamo". Voice of America. 2005-03-08. Retrieved 2015-07-08. Note that there is a 2009 date above the article, but the actual date of the article is in the URL.
- ^ "The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 11 December 2023. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ a b Nicolas Vaux-Montagny (2010-02-17). "France orders 5 former Gitmo inmates back to court". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Paris Court Acquits Former Guantanamo Detainees". Huffington Post. 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ^ a b c d e OARDEC (3 December 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Patel, Mustaq Ali (Al Akram, Muhammad Ibn Ismail)" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ "Detainees Found to No Longer Meet the Definition of "Enemy Combatant" during Combatant Status Review Tribunals Held at Guantanamo" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. November 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2008-04-15.