List of Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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

Syrian detainees at Guantanamo
isnnamearrival
date		departure
date		notes
307Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani2002-02-112010-07-20
312Muhammed Khan Tumani2002-02-112009-08-28
317Moammar Badawi Dokhan2002-02-122009-08-28
326Ahmed Adnan Ahjam2002-06-142014-12-07
327Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban2002-06-142014-12-07
329Abd Al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj2002-06-082014-12-07
330Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad2002-06-102010-05-04
489Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko2002-05-01
537Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali2010-09-16
  • Released to Germany on September 16, 2010.[6]
722Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab aka Abu Wa'el Dhiab[7]2002-08-052014-12-07
726Menhal Al Henali2002-08-052004-03-31
  • 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.

References
  1. 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.
  2. Carol Rosenberg (2009-08-31). "Court documents name detainees sent to Portugal". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2009-08-02.
  3. OARDEC (2004). "Civil Action No. 05-CV-0526" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. pp. 3–30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02.
  4. Spetalnick, Matt (December 7, 2014). "Uruguay accepts six Guantanamo prisoners for resettlement". Reuters. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  5. LALLEMAND, ALAIN (October 17, 2009). "Le " Belge " de Guantánamo est un jeune Syrien de 31 ans".
  6. Carol Rosenberg (2010-09-16). "Camps census now 174: Germany takes in two Arab captives from Guantánamo". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 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.
  7. "South Africa turns away former hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee". Miami Herald. 16 December 2016.
  8. "Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown". Human Rights Watch. 2008-08-18. Archived from the original on 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
  1. Countries of Citizenship of Guantanamo detainees from the New York Times
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