List of Libyan detainees at Guantanamo Bay


The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. 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. Hundreds of detainees were released without charges.
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush 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, 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.
On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.
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date		departure
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189Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby2002-05-052016-04-04transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04
194
  • Mohammed Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri
  • Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri
  • Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani Al Futri
  • Muhammad Abdallah Mansur Al Rimi
  • Mohammed Rimi
2002-01-162006-12-15
  • Named differently on the official lists of names.
  • Captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.
  • Allegedly an employee of the Pakistani Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat.
  • Released on December 18, 2006.
  • Released on December 18, 2006.
    • 263Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan2002-02-09
    557Abu Sufian bin Qumu2002-05-052007-09-28
  • Repatriated in the fall of 2007. In 2011, he emerged as a rebel leader in the Libyan civil war against Muammar Gaddafi. Reported to be involved in the terror attack on the US consulate that resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens.
    • 654Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi2002-06-182010-03-23
  • 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." No charges were ever filed against him.
  • Transferred to Georgia on March 23, 2010.
    • 685Abdelrazak Ali Abdelrahman2002-06-18
    695Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr2002-08-052016-04-04released in Senegal.
    708Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush2002-08-05
    709Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin2002-08-052010-02-24
  • Transferred to Albania.
    • 727Omar Deghayes2002-08-052007-12-19
  • 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.
  • Transferred to the United Kingdom.
    • 761Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan2002-08-052007-11-02
  • He was transferred to Jordan on November 2, 2007.