Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 2)

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Updated for the eighth time in October 2022, this definitive Guantánamo prisoner list was first published in March 2009, and subsequently updated from four parts to six (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6). I first updated it on January 1, 2010, and again on July 12, 2010, and I updated it for the third time at the start of June 2011, to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of my almost daily publication of articles about Guantánamo. That update also included previously unseen photos from the classified military files released by WikiLeaks, on which I worked as a media partner. It was updated for the fourth time on the first anniversary of WikiLeaks’ release of “The Guantánamo Files,” and was updated for the fifth time on March 7, 2014, five years after its first publication — an update that contained more photos from the files released by WikiLeaks. The sixth update in October 2016 contained additional photos, as well as important information about the status of the 61 prisoners still held at the time, and the seventh update took place between September and November 2018.

Please note that Part 1 covers ISN numbers (prisoner numbers) 1-133, Part 3 covers 269-496, Part 4 covers 497-661, Part 5 covers 662-928 and Part 6 covers 929-10029.

The definitive prisoner list is a key element of my ongoing work (now in its 17th year) calling for the closure of the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and telling the stories of the men held there. The first fruit of my initial research was my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, in which I told the story of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, established, for the first time, a chronology explaining where and when the prisoners were seized, told the stories of around 450 of these prisoners, and provided a context for the circumstances in which the remainder of the prisoners were captured.

Since May 2007, I have written nearly 2,500 articles about Guantánamo, expanding on and updating my initial work, providing research, analysis and commentary, as well as regularly campaigning to get the prison closed — particularly via the Close Guantánamo campaign I established in 2012 with the US attorney Tom Wilner, and We Stand With Shaker, established in 2014 with the activist Joanne MacInnes, which played a part in securing the release of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, in October 2015.

Along the way, I have covered the stories of the 343 prisoners released from Guantánamo since June 2007 — 142 under George W. Bush, 196 under Barack Obama, just one under Donald Trump, and, to date, four under President Biden — in unprecedented depth. I have also covered the stories of the 33 prisoners charged in Guantánamo’s military commissions (although around half of those charges were subsequently dropped, and only eight men have been convicted, with several of those convictions overturned on appeal), and I also covered the men’s habeas corpus petitions in detail from 2008 to 2011, until they were disgracefully shut down by appeals court judges in Washington, D.C. It’s worth noting, however, that one man succeeded in breaking this deadlock in October 2021, and is one of the four men freed under President Biden.

In President Obama’s last years, I assiduously covered the Periodic Review Boards, convened to assess the cases of 64 men who had not been approved for release or recommended for trials by an earlier review process, the Guantánamo Review Task Force. The PRB process began in November 2013, and resulted in 38 men being approved for release (of whom 36 were released before Obama left office), while 26 others had their ongoing imprisonment upheld. The PRBs largely ground to a halt under Donald Trump, and just one man was approved for release towards the end of his presidency. Since Joe Biden took office, however, 19 men have been approved for release by PRBs, although only two of them have, to date, actually been freed.

As a result of my work over the last 16 years, this is the most comprehensive list ever published of the 779 prisoners who have been held by the US military at Guantánamo, providing details of the 733 prisoners who have been released (and the dates of their release), the nine men who have died, the one man transferred to the US mainland for a trial, and the 38 prisoners who are still held (including the 22 men approved for release), as well as those designated for prosecution (currently nine of the remaining prisoners) or ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, the “forever prisoners,” officially held indefinitely without charge or trial (but who are eligible for Periodic Review Boards), and who now number just three men.

It is my hope, as it has been since I established this prisoner list 13 years ago, that this project will provide an invaluable research tool for those seeking to understand how it came to pass that the government of the United States turned its back on domestic and international law, establishing torture as official US policy, and holding men without charge or trial neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects to be put forward for trial in a federal court, but as “illegal enemy combatants.”

I also hope that it provides a compelling explanation of how that same government, under the leadership of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, established a prison in which the overwhelming majority of those held — at least 93 percent of the 779 men and boys imprisoned in total — were either completely innocent people, seized as a result of dubious intelligence or sold for bounty payments, or Taliban foot soldiers, recruited to fight an inter-Muslim civil war that began long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or international terrorism.

And finally, as Guantánamo remains open under President Biden (after Obama failed to close it, despite promising to do so on his second day in office, and after four years of almost complete inertia on the part of Donald Trump), I hope that it also provides useful information for those still seeking to close Guantánamo, and to bring to an end this bleak chapter in American history.

Andy Worthington, London, October 6, 2022

How to use the list

In the categories below, ISN refers to the Internment Serial Number by which the prisoners are (or were) known and identified in Guantánamo, followed by the prisoners’ status (released, cleared for release, still held, or, in nine cases, deceased), their names (with just some of the many different permutations noted, in some cases), their nationality, and links to articles I have written about them, or which include references to them, or references to chapters in The Guantánamo Files. Links on the release dates feed into articles published when the prisoners were released.

The 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo (Part 2)

ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References

Pakistanis captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 2001)

134 Ghaser Zaban Safollah (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

135 Ejaz Ahmad Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

136 Tarik Mohammad (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

137 Mohammed Tariq (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

138 Salahuddin Ayubi (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

139 Hafiz Liaqat Mansoor (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

140 Said Saim Ali (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

141 Haseeb Ayub (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Two of Five)

142 Fazaldad (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

143 Mohammad Saghir (Pakistan) RELEASED OCT 2002 Chapters 3, 8, 11, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

144 Mohammed Ilyas (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

145 Hamood Ullah Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

146 Muhammed Kashif Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Two of Five)

147 Mohammed Arshad Raza (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Two of Five)

Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 2001)

148 Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida (Adel Ben Mabrouk Boughanmi) (Tunisia) RELEASED DEC 2009, extradited to Italian custody, deported to Tunisia Apr 2011; Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail, Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo and Sent Home from Italy Reflects on His Imprisonment

149 Salim Hamdan (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2008, CONVICTED IN TRIAL BY MILITARY COMMISSION (Aug 2008), CONVICTION OVERTURNED OCT 2012; Chapters 6, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION (five-month sentence, Aug 08), also see Military judge dashes hopes that Guantánamo detainees have rights as Prisoners of War, Guantánamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?, Guantánamo’s Shambolic Trials, Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, Guantánamo trial delayed, Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo Trial, A critical overview of Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo trial and the dubious verdict, The End of Guantánamo, Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions, Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions, Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revolution Interview with Andy Worthington, After Recent Ruling in the Case of Bin Laden’s Cook, Guantánamo Should Close by July 2012, Andy Worthington Discusses Al-Qaeda Film “The Oath” on Press TV, On Terrorism, America Has Lost Its Way, US Military Admits Only 2.5 Percent of All Prisoners Ever Held at Guantánamo Will Be Tried, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, David Hicks and the Legal Collapse of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, The collapse of Guantánamo’s military commissions (for Al-Jazeera), Former Military Commissions Prosecutor Calls for the Closure of Guantánamo

150 Said Al Boujaadia (Morocco) RELEASED MAY 2008 Chapter 7, also see Cleared but still held in Guantánamo

151 Mubarak Hashem (Bangladesh) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 9, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

152 Asim Al Khalaqi (Yemen) DIED MAY 2015, RELEASED DEC 2014 (in Kazakhstan), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 6, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years

153 Fayiz Suleiman (Yemen) RELEASED JUL 2016 (in Italy), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2)

154 Mazin Al Awfi (al-Owfi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

155 Khalid Al Hubayshi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2005 Chapter 7, also see The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubyadah: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Confirms FBI’s Doubts, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

156 Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif (Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd) (Yemen) DIED IN GUANTANAMO SEP 2012, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 2010), LOST ON APPEAL (Oct 2011), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Mentally Ill Yemeni; 2nd Judge Approves Detention of Minor Taliban Recruit, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Christmas at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Everything”: A Bleak New Year Message from Yemeni Prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, A Cry for Help from Guantánamo: Adnan Latif Asks, “Who Is Going to Rescue Me From the Injustice and the Torture I Am Enduring?”, Another Desperate Letter from Guantánamo by Adnan Latif: “With All My Pains, I Say Goodbye to You”, Andy Worthington Discusses the “Political Prisoners” of Guantánamo on Antiwar Radio, Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, As Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guantánamo Prisoners, Will the Supreme Court Act?, Lawyer Laments the Death of Habeas Corpus for the Guantánamo Prisoners, The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners, Meet the Seven Guantánamo Prisoners Whose Appeals Were Turned Down by the Supreme Court, A Premonition of Death at Guantánamo: Adnan Latif’s Hunger Strike Poem, Obama, the Courts and Congress Are All Responsible for the Latest Death at Guantánamo, This Week at Guantánamo: More on Adnan Latif, Omar Khadr’s Birthday, A French Appeal, and the Release of Cleared Prisoners’ Names, The Banality of Evil: How the US Killed an Innocent Man at Guantánamo, An Impossible Suicide at Guantánamo, Andy Worthington and David Remes Discuss Guantánamo on Revolution Truth, Andy Worthington Discusses the Urgent Need to Close Guantánamo with Peter B. Collins, Close Guantánamo: Photos of Protestors outside the Supreme Court on the 11th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison, Video: Andy Worthington Tells President Obama Why His Failure to Close Guantánamo Is Akin to Dictatorship, The Prisoners Speak: Reports from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo, The Season of Death at Guantánamo, EXCLUSIVE: The Last Days in the Life of Adnan Latif, Who Died in Guantánamo Last Year, Remember Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, Who Died at Guantánamo A Year Ago, Despite Being Cleared for Release, Remembering the Season of Death at Guantánamo, The American Lawyer’s Six Guantánamo Bar Profiles: Thomas Wilner, David Remes, Jennifer Cowan, Wells Dixon, David Nevin and Lee Wolosky, Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo: Revisiting a Major Article in the New Yorker, Death at Guantánamo: Psychologist and Author Jeffrey Kaye Speaks to the Talking Dog, Guantánamo Suicides “Unlikely,” Says Investigator Jeffrey Kaye in New Edition of His Book, “Cover-up at Guantánamo”, Why Camp X-Ray at Guantánamo Mustn’t Be Destroyed, Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead, 12 Years After the Three Notorious Alleged Suicides of June 2006, mentioned in It’s Ten Years Since the Supreme Court Granted Habeas Corpus Rights to the Guantánamo Prisoners, a Legal Triumph Until a Lower Court Took Them Away, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination, Has a Dangerous Track Record of Defending Guantánamo and Unfettered Executive Power, The 15th Anniversary of the Contentious “Triple Suicide” of Three Prisoners at Guantánamo, Video: I Discuss Resistance and Creativity at Guantánamo and the Plight of Former Prisoners with Mansoor Adayfi

157 Said Al Malki (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

158 Majid Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

159 Abdullah Al Noaimi (Bahrain) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapters 7, 8, 19, also see All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharmacological Waterboarding”, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

160 Mohammed Benmoujan (Morocco) RELEASED OCT 2006 Chapter 7, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

161 Mourad Benchellali (France) RELEASED JUL 2004 Chapters 7, 8, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten), Life After Guantánamo: The Story of Mourad Benchellali, Freed 13 Years Ago But Still Stigmatized

162 Ali Al Tays (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

163 Khalid Al Qadasi (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2015 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in July 2021; CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

164 Imad Kanouni (France) RELEASED JUL 2004 Chapter 7, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

165 Said Al Busayss (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2015 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021; CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 6, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

166 Mehdi Ghezali (Sweden) RELEASED JUL 2004 Chapters 7, 15, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

167 Ali Yahya Al Raimi (Yemen) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo

168 Adel Hakimi (Hakeemy) (Tunisia) RELEASED DEC 2014 (in Kazakhstan), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 7, also see Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantanamo, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, At Guantánamo, Another Bleak Ramadan for 87 Cleared Prisoners Who Are Still Held, suicide attempt mentioned in From Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer Tells His Lawyer Disturbing Truths About the Hunger Strike, mentioned in “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike, also see Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo

169 Ayman Al Amrani (Jordan) RELEASED NOV 2003 No information

170 Sharaf Masud (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2)

171 Abu Bakr Alahdal (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding, Guantánamo Violence: Prisoners Report Shaker Aamer “Beaten,” Another Man Assaulted “For Nearly Two Hours”

172 Ali Mohammed Nasir Mohammed (Yemen) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 5, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

173 Redouane Khalid (France) RELEASED MAR 2005 Chapter 7, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

174 Hisham Sliti (Tunisia) RELEASED NOV 2014 (in Slovakia), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Dec 2008), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Guantánamo In Belgium: The Questionable Fate Of Two Tunisians, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, mentioned in Tunisians Call for the Release of Prisoners in Guantánamo

175 Hassan Mujamma Rabai Said (Algeria) RELEASED JAN 2009 Website Extras 6

176 Majid Al Qurayshi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

177 Fahd Al Jutayli (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

178 Tareq Baada (Tariq Ba Odah) (Yemen) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Secrecy Still Shrouds Guantánamo’s Five-Year Hunger Striker, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding, Guantánamo Violence: Prisoners Report Shaker Aamer “Beaten,” Another Man Assaulted “For Nearly Two Hours”, Skeletal, 75-Pound Guantánamo Hunger Striker Tariq Ba Odah Seeks Release; Medical Experts Fear For His Life, Tariq Ba Odah, Hunger Strikes, and Why the Obama Administration Must Stop Challenging Guantánamo Prisoners in Court, Disgraceful US Justice Department Secretly Blocks Release from Guantánamo of Gravely Ill Hunger Striker Tariq Ba Odah, Obama’s Mixed Messages on Guantánamo, as Justice Department Tells Judge Not to Intervene in Case of 75-Pound Hunger Striker at Risk of Death, Pentagon Blocks Prisoner Releases from Guantánamo – Including 74-Pound Yemeni Hunger Striker

179 Abdul Rahman Al Juaid (al-Juayd) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 6, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

180 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location – or held at Bagram – instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 212, 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)

181 Majid Al Shammari (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2005 Website Extras 4, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

182 Bandar Al Jabri (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

183 Issam Al Jayfi (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

184 Othman Al Omairah (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2006 Website Extras 5, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

185 Turki Al Asiri (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

186 Rashid Balkhair (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

187 Murtadha Makram (Magram, Maqram) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Chapter 20, also see Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

188 Jabir Al Fayfi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

189 Salem Gherebi (Ghereby) (Libya) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Senegal), repatriated to Libya in 2018, CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 6, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Betrayal: Senegal Prepares to Send Two Former Guantánamo Prisoners Back to Libya, Where They Face Imprisonment, Torture and Even Execution, Update on Senegal’s Dire Determination to Send Back to Libya Two Former Guantánamo Prisoners Granted Humanitarian Asylum in 2016, Sad Confirmation that Second Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Resettled in Senegal Has Been Forcibly Returned to Libya, Where His Life Is At Risk, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Salem Gherebi’s Letter Explaining Why He Voluntarily Returned to Libya from Senegal Despite the Danger in Doing So, As Two Former Guantánamo Prisoners Disappear in Libya After Repatriation from Asylum in Senegal, There Are Fears for 150 Others Resettled in Third Countries, The Shameful Human Cost of Inertia at Joe Biden’s Guantánamo

190 Sharif Al Mishad (Sherif El-Meshad) (Egypt) RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 6, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, News from Albania: One Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Becomes A Father, While Another Is Not Allowed to Return Home

191 Saleh Al Khathami (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

192 Ibrahim Al Rubeish (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see A Poem from Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

193 Mohsin Moqbill (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

194 Muhammad Al Futuri (Al Futri, Al Rimi) (Libya) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 7 (footnote), also see Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Freed in Libya After Three Years’ Detention – And Information About “Ghost Prisoners”, Revolution in Libya: Protestors Respond to Gaddafi’s Murderous Backlash with Remarkable Courage; US and UK Look Like the Hypocrites They Are, Deranged Gaddafi Blames Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners for Unrest in Libya, Even Though Only One Ex-Prisoner Has Been Released, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Three of Ten)

195 Mohammed Al Shumrani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JAN 2016, CLEARED BY PRB (Sep 2015), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Oct 2014) Website Extras 4, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Saudi Prisoner Refuses to Attend His Periodic Review at Guantánamo, Complains About Intrusive Body Searches, Fayiz Al-Kandari, the Last Kuwaiti in Guantánamo, and a Saudi Prisoner Ask Review Boards to Send Them Home

196 Musa Al Amri (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

197 Younis Chekhouri (Younous Chekkouri, Shokhuri) (Morocco) RELEASED SEP 2015, CLEARED (under Obama) Chapters 7, 15, also discussed in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Clive Stafford Smith’s Harrowing Account of His Call with Younus Chekhouri, From Guantánamo, Younus Chekhouri Speaks About the Prison Clampdown: “Everyone is Traumatized by What Happened”, Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the Guantánamo Hunger Strike, A Love Letter from Guantánamo, Obama to Release Ten Guantánamo Prisoners Including Shaker Aamer, Says Washington Post, “Petty and Nasty”: Guantánamo Commander Bans Lawyers From Bringing Food to Share with Prisoners, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Betrayed by Morocco: Are Diplomatic Assurances Worthless?, Guantánamo’s Tainted Evidence: US Government Publicly Concedes Its Case Against Ex-Prisoner Facing Trial in Morocco Collapsed in 2011, Moroccan Released from Guantánamo Facing Kangaroo Court Trial Back Home As Wife Says She Is “Still Living a Nightmare”, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Younous Chekkouri Illegally Imprisoned in Morocco; As Murat Kurnaz Calls for His Release, Please Ask John Kerry to Act, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Younous Chekkouri Finally Freed in Morocco After 149 Days’ Imprisonment; Thanks Supporters, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Younous Chekkouri’s First Interview Since Being Released from Prison in Morocco, Great New York Times Exposé of How Torture, Abuse and Command Indifference Compromised Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo, Life After Guantánamo: In Morocco, Younous Chekkouri’s Struggle to Rebuild His Life, UK Torture: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner’s Memories Provide A Reminder That We Need Accountability

198 Mohammed Al Asadi (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 5, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

199 Abdul Rahman Al Amri (Saudi Arabia) DIED IN GUANTANAMO MAY 07 Chapter 6, also see Suicide at Guantánamo: a response to the US military’s allegations that Abdul Rahman al-Amri was a member of al-Qaeda, The Forgotten Anniversary of a Guantánamo Suicide, Forgotten: The Second Anniversary Of A Guantánamo Suicide, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, The Third Anniversary of a Death in Guantánamo, Were Two Prisoners Killed at Guantánamo in 2007 and 2009?, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten), Remembering a Death at Guantánamo, Six Years Since I Began Writing About the Prison as an Independent Journalist, The Season of Death at Guantánamo, Remembering the Season of Death at Guantánamo, Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead, Death at Guantánamo: Psychologist and Author Jeffrey Kaye Speaks to the Talking Dog, Ten Years of Writing About Guantánamo: Please Support My Work!, Another Sad, Forgotten Anniversary for Guantánamo’s Dead, Guantánamo Suicides “Unlikely,” Says Investigator Jeffrey Kaye in New Edition of His Book, “Cover-up at Guantánamo”, Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead, 12 Years After the Three Notorious Alleged Suicides of June 2006, Never Forget: The “Season of Death” at Guantánamo, The 15th Anniversary of the Contentious “Triple Suicide” of Three Prisoners at Guantánamo

200 Said Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2013, CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 6, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2)

Captured in Afghanistan and held in Qala-i-Janghi (Nov 2001)

202 Mahmoud Bin Atef (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Ghana), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 1, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)

203 Ravil Gumarov (Russia) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapters 2, 18, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

204 Said Al Zahrani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

205 Nasser Al Mutairi (Kuwait) RELEASED JAN 2005 Chapter 2, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

206 Abdullah Al Yamani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 2, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

207 Mishal Al Harbi (Alhabiri) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2005 Chapters 2, 19, also see Saudi who suffered brain damage in Guantánamo gets married in Medina, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

208 Maroof Salehove (Tajikistan) RELEASED AUG 2005 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

209 Shamil Khazhiyev (Russia) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapter 2, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten), EXCLUSIVE: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Shamil Khaziev Detained in Holland

210 Faik Iqbal (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Two of Five)

211 Ruslan Ogidov (Russia) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapter 2, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Three of Ten)

Captured crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan (Dec 2001)

212 NO ISN As revealed by WikiLeaks, this was Ibn Al Shaykh Al Libi, rendered for torture in Egypt, who died in a Libyan prison in May 2009; see Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two), Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions, UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”, Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney’s Torture and Lies, Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for Nothing, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, In Abu Zubaydah’s Case, Court Relies on Propaganda and Lies, New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Prisons in Poland and Romania, Bin Laden Cook Expected to Serve Two More Years at Guantánamo – And Some Thoughts on the Remaining Sudanese Prisoners, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Freed in Libya After Three Years’ Detention – And Information About “Ghost Prisoners”, Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of the US and the West, As Mubarak Resigns, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Mamdouh Habib Reminds the World that Omar Suleiman Personally Tortured Him in Egypt, Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: Why The US Government Reached A Plea Deal with Guantánamo Prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed, Revolution in Libya: Protestors Respond to Gaddafi’s Murderous Backlash with Remarkable Courage; US and UK Look Like the Hypocrites They Are, Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001, WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exposes Detention Policy as a Construct of Lies, Andy Worthington Tells the Truth About WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo Files in an Interview with Alexa O’Brien, Tyler Cabot’s Important Profile of Guantánamo Prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed for Esquire, Ten Years After 9/11, America Deserves Better than Dick Cheney’s Self-Serving Autobiography, Video: Culture of Impunity – New Online Film Includes Andy Worthington Talking About Guantánamo, Torture and Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, mentioned in Guantánamo, Where Unsubstantiated Suspicion of Terrorism Ensures Indefinite Detention, Even After 12 Years, mentioned in UK Appeals Court Rules Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Rendered to Torture in Gaddafi’s Libya, Can Sue British Government, 15 Years After 9/11, Still Waiting for the Closure of Guantánamo; also see 180, above, and 241, 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below

213 Khalid Al Mutairi (Kuwait) RELEASED OCT 2009, WON HABEAS PETITION (Jul 09) Chapter 7, also see Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Charity Worker , Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame , Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame , Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Can Kuwait Break the Guantánamo Deadlock?

214 Mohammed Al Qurashi (Al Kurash, Al Kurashi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

215 Fahd Al Sharif (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

216 Jamil Al Kabi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

217 Abdul Aziz Al Shammeri (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapter 7, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five), Life After Guantánamo: Kuwaitis Discuss Their Tortured Confessions, Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talks to Kuwaiti Ex-Prisoners for Al-Jazeera

218 Fahd Al Fouzan (Al Fawzan) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

219 Abdul Razak Qadir (China) RELEASED APR 2012 (in El Salvador), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Chapter 7, also see A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo, No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo, Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and the Failure of US Justice Under Obama with Peter B. Collins, The Abandonment of Guantánamo’s Uighurs and Attorney Sabin Willett’s Powerful Requiem for Habeas Corpus in the US, New “Close Guantánamo” Campaign Begins Prisoner Profiles, Features Abdul Razak Qadir, One of Five Innocent Uighurs Still Held (and also see 201)

220 Abdullah Al Ajmi (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapter 12, also see Identification of ex-Guantánamo suicide bomber unleashes Pentagon propaganda, Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Released from Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five), Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talks to Kuwaiti Ex-Prisoners for Al-Jazeera

221 Ali Mohsen Salih (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2007 Website Extras 5, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

222 Umar Al Kunduzi (Afghanistan-Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

223 Abdul Rahman Sulayman (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021; LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jul 2010) Chapter 6, also see Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Mentally Ill Yemeni; 2nd Judge Approves Detention of Minor Taliban Recruit , Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

224 Abdul Rahman Muhammad (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, Close Guantánamo: President Obama, Drop Your Ban on Releasing Yemenis

225 Hani Al Shulan (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2007 Website Extras 5, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

226 Anwar Al Nurr (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

227 Salah Al Balushi (Bahrain) RELEASED OCT 2006 Chapter 7, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

228 Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari (Kuwait) RELEASED SEP 2006 Chapter 7, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten), Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talks to Kuwaiti Ex-Prisoners for Al-Jazeera

229 Mohammed Fenaitel Al Daihani (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapter 7, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

230 Humoud Al Jadani (Humud Al Jadani) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

231 Abdulhadi Al Sharikh (Al Sharekh, Al Sharakh) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Four of Ten)

232 Fawzi Al Odah (Al Awda) (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2014, CLEARED BY PRB (Jul 2014), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 2009), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010) Chapters 7, 8, also see Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: who are Fawzi al-Odah and Lakhdar Boumediene?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, Obama Drops Plan For New “Indefinite Detention” Policy At Guantánamo, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part Two), Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Fayiz Al-Kandari, A Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantánamo, Loses His Habeas Petition, First Guantánamo Habeas Appeal to US Supreme Court, Can Kuwait Break the Guantánamo Deadlock?, mentioned in Life After Guantánamo: Kuwaitis Discuss Their Tortured Confessions, also see On the 10th Anniversary of the Opening of Guantánamo, Kuwaiti Mothers Appeal for Release of Their Sons, In Kuwait, Looking for American Justice — and Showing “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” on Alrai TV, After a Wonderful Visit to Kuwait, New Plans to Close Guantánamo and to Free the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners, Video (in Arabic): On Kuwaiti TV, Tom Wilner and Andy Worthington Discuss the Last Two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, Justice Denied: The Unacceptable 10-Year Detention of Fawzi Al-Odah and Fayiz Al-Kandari, the Last Two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, For the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantánamo, US Relies on Unreliable Witnesses and Experts Find Evidence Unconvincing, My Photos on Flickr: Visiting Kuwait to Campaign for the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Will the End of War in Afghanistan Spur Obama to Close Guantánamo?, Kuwaiti Prisoners Fawzi Al-Odah and Fayiz Al-Kandari Ask Periodic Review Board to Free Them from Guantánamo, Fawzi Al-Odah Speaks: First Interview with Kuwaiti Released from Guantánamo in 2014, Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo: Revisiting a Major Article in the New Yorker

233 Abdul Salih (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2)

234 Khalid Al Zahrani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 4

235 Saeed Jarabh (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in July 2021; CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2015) Chapter 19, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), Progress Towards Closing Guantánamo, As Periodic Review Boards Resume with the Case of a Seriously Ill Egyptian, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

236 Khaled Ben Mustafa (France) RELEASED MAR 2005 Chapters 7, 8, 15, also see Former Guantánamo Prisoner Khaled Ben Mustapha Interviewed by Cageprisoners, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

237 Mohammed Laalami (Morocco) RELEASED FEB 2006 Website Extras 2, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

238 Nabil Hadjarab (Algeria-France) RELEASED AUG 2013, CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 2, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see Guantánamo Algerian Returns Home; Will Obama Suspend Further Transfers?, Nabil Hadjarab, an Algerian in Guantánamo, Appeals to President Sarkozy to Allow Him to Rejoin His Family in France, France Turns Down Guantánamo Prisoner Nabil Hadjarab’s Appeal for Asylum, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2), mentioned in Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repatriation of Guantánamo Prisoners, Nabil Habjarab, the “Sweet Kid” in Guantánamo, Was Cleared in 2007 But Is Still Held, This Week at Guantánamo: More on Adnan Latif, Omar Khadr’s Birthday, A French Appeal, and the Release of Cleared Prisoners’ Names, As Guantánamo Prisoners Send Pleas to President Obama, Media Reports Plans To Free 86 Men Long Cleared for Release, Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Shaker Aamer and Other Prisoners Ask US Court to Stop the Force-Feeding and Forced Medication at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Nabil Hadjarab Tells Court, “I Will Consider Eating When I See People Leaving This Place”, Justice Department Tells Court that Force-Feeding Guantánamo Hunger Strikers is “Maintaining the Status Quo”, Shaker Aamer and Other Guantánamo Prisoners Call Force-Feeding Torture, Ask Appeals Court for Help, Congratulations to John Grisham for Writing about the Injustice of Guantánamo, Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the Guantánamo Hunger Strike

240 Abdullah Al Shabli (Yemen/Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 4, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)

241 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location – or held at Bagram – instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180 and 212, above, and 544, 548, 583 and 697-8, below)

242 Khaled Qassim (Qasim) (Yemen) CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (July 2022), NOT CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (Dec 2021), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2015), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2018) Website Extras 2, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding, Guantánamo Violence: Prisoners Report Shaker Aamer “Beaten,” Another Man Assaulted “For Nearly Two Hours”, As Last Egyptian Is Cleared for Release from Guantánamo, Another Yemeni Faces Periodic Review Board, Over 90 Celebrities and MPs Sign Open Letter to President Obama Calling for Shaker Aamer’s Release from Guantánamo on US Independence Day, It’s Groundhog Day: Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith Reports from Guantánamo After 70 Days of Trump’s Presidency, Trump’s Disturbing New Guantánamo Policy: Allowing Hunger Strikers to Starve to Death, New York Times Finally Reports on Trump’s Policy of Letting Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Die; Rest of Mainstream Media Still Silent, “When Will My Organs Fail? When Will My Heart Stop?”: Guantánamo Hunger Striker Khalid Qassim Fears Death Under Trump’s New Policy, Celebrities Fasting With the Hunger Striking Guantánamo Prisoners That Donald Trump Is Allowing to Die, Guantánamo detainee: US changed force-feeding policy (for Al-Jazeera), Persistent Dehumanization at Guantánamo: US Claims It Owns Prisoners’ Art, Just As It Claims to Own Their Memories of Torture, Guantánamo Hunger Striker Khalid Qassim Says, “We Are Like Lab Rats,” Says Doctor Told Him, “If You Lose Organs, It Is Your Choice”, Telling Donald Trump to Close Guantánamo: My Report on an Inspiring 24 Hours of Protest and Resistance in Washington, D.C. on the 16th Anniversary of the Prison’s Opening, Reviewing the Guantánamo Art Show in New York That Dared to Show Prisoners As Human Beings, and Led to a Pentagon Clampdown, No Escape from Guantánamo: An Update on the Periodic Review Boards, A Rare Court Victory Offers Hope for Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoners”, Horribly Repressive: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Guantánamo, Humanizing the Silenced and Maligned: Guantánamo Prisoner Art at CUNY Law School in New York, “My Best Friend and Brother”: A Profile of Guantánamo Prisoner Khalid Qasim by Mansoor Adayfi, mentioned in Trump-Appointed Appeals Court Judge Rules That Guantánamo Prisoners Don’t Have Due Process Rights, The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse on Guantánamo: “Born in Fear and Sustained Through Political Cynicism and Public Indifference”, President Elect Biden, It’s Time to Close Guantánamo, Joe Biden’s Guantánamo: New York Times Highlights Decaying Prison Cells and Broken Judicial System; Observer Notes Return of Hope, Fighting Guantánamo in the Courts Under President Biden, The Enemy Within: How the US Justice Department Has Spent 19 Years Defending Arbitrary Detention at Guantánamo, Video: I Discuss Resistance and Creativity at Guantánamo and the Plight of Former Prisoners with Mansoor Adayfi, Video: The “Disrupt, Confront, and Close Guantánamo” 20th Anniversary Virtual Rally on Jan. 11, 2022, TV and Radio: I Discuss Guantánamo’s 20th Anniversary on Turkish TV, and with Scott Horton and Rebecca Myles, The US’s Ongoing “Forever Prisoner” Problem at Guantánamo, “A Good Man With A Lot to Offer This World”: Khaled Qassim’s Attorney Urges Periodic Review Board to Approve His Release from Guantánamo, Radio: I Discuss Guantánamo and WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo Files with Misty Winston on TNT Radio, The Powerful Artwork Still Being Created by Prisoners at Guantánamo, and the Outrageous Ban on its Dissemination That is Still in Place

243 Abdullah Al Utaybi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 12

244 Abdul Latif Nasser (Nasir) (Morocco) RELEASED JUL 2021, CLEARED BY PRB (Jul 2016) Chapter 4, mentioned in Cleared but still held in Guantánamo, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Plea Deals in Federal Court Mooted for Guantánamo Prisoners in Next Year’s National Defense Authorization Act, Two More Prisoners – A Moroccan and an Afghan – Seek Release from Guantánamo Via Periodic Review Boards, as Two More Men Have Their Detention Upheld, Emptying Guantánamo: Obama to Release 17 or 18 Prisoners Before Trump Takes Over, Review Boards Approve Ongoing Imprisonment of Three More Prisoners at Guantánamo, Even As Lawmakers Urge Donald Trump to Scrap Them, It’s Groundhog Day: Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith Reports from Guantánamo After 70 Days of Trump’s Presidency, Abdul Latif Nasser: Facing life in Guantánamo (for Al-Jazeera), Guantánamo Lawyer: It is “Entirely Unprecedented” for Trump to “Take the Position That There Will Be No Transfers out of Guantánamo Without Regard to the Facts”, As Guantánamo Enters Its 17th Year of Operations, Lawyers Hit Trump with Lawsuit Stating That His Blanket Refusal to Release Anyone Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Good News: Court Orders Trump Administration to Explain Its Position on Guantánamo After A Year of Shocking Inaction, In Guantánamo Habeas Corpus Case, Lawyers Insist That Trump’s Stated Intention of Not Releasing Any Prisoners Renders Their Imprisonment “Perpetual” — and Illegal, Tomorrow, Lawyers Will Argue in Court That Donald Trump’s Guantánamo Policy Is “Arbitrary, Unlawful, and Motivated by Executive Hubris and Anti-Muslim Animus”, Really? Trump Lawyer Argues in Court that Guantánamo Prisoners Can Be Held for 100 Years Without Charge or Trial, Abdul Latif Nasser’s Story: Imagine Being Told You Were Leaving Guantánamo, But Then Donald Trump Became President, Abandoned in Guantánamo: Abdul Latif Nasser, Cleared for Release Three Years Ago, But Still Held, Trump’s Personal Prisoners at Guantánamo: The Five Men Cleared for Release But Still Held, Horribly Repressive: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Guantánamo, Lockdown Listening: Radiolab’s Six-Part, Four-Hour Series About Guantánamo Prisoner Abdul Latif Nasser, Cleared for Release But Still Held, “I Am Not Even Allowed To Hear My Own Story”: A Letter from Guantánamo by Abdul Latif Nasser, Cleared for Release But Still Held By Donald Trump, President Elect Biden, It’s Time to Close Guantánamo, Video: The “Disrupt, Confront, and Close Guantánamo” 20th Anniversary Virtual Rally on Jan. 11, 2022

245 Haji Hajaj Al Sulami (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

246 Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa (Bahrain) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapter 7, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

247 Kay Fiyatullah (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Two of Five)

248 Saleh Al Oshan (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2005 Website Extras 4, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Two of Five)

249 Mohammed Al Hamiri (Yemen) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, Close Guantánamo: Photos of Protestors outside the Supreme Court on the 11th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison, From Guantánamo, An Innocent Man Pleads for Release, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding

250 Hassan Anvar (Anwar Hassan) (China) RELEASED OCT 2009 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 2008) Website Extras 6, The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs (also see 201)

251 Mohammed Bin Salem (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years

252 Yasim Basardah (Yemen) RELEASED MAY 2010 (in Spain), WON HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2009) Chapter 6, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exposes Detention Policy as a Construct of Lies, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Truth, Lies and Distortions in the Coverage of Shaker Aamer, Soon to be Freed from Guantánamo

253 Faris Muslim Al Ansari (Afghanistan-Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 6, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo

254 Mohammed Khenaina (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2014 (in Kazakhstan), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2)

255 Said Hatim (Saeed Hatim) (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman), WON HABEAS PETITION (Dec 2009), VACATED ON APPEAL (Feb 2011), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Unwilling Yemeni Recruit, Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantánamo, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2), Habeas Hell: How the Great Writ Was Gutted at Guantánamo, Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, An Assessment of the Importance of the Classified Guantánamo Military Files Released by WikiLeaks and My Role in Analyzing Them

256 Riyad Al Radai (Al Haj, Al Haf) (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2009 Website Extras 5

257 Omar Abdulayev (Muhammadi Davliatov) (Tajikistan) RELEASED JUL 2016 (in Serbia), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 9, Obama’s Failure To Deliver Justice To The Last Tajik In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3)

258 Nayif Al Nukhaylan (Nayif Ibrahim) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 4

259 Fadil Hintif (Fadel Hentif) (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2015 (in Oman), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 2011), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 5, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, As Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guantánamo Prisoners, Will the Supreme Court Act?

260 Ahmed Adil (China) RELEASED MAY 2006 (in Albania) Chapter 7, also see Guantánamo’s Uyghurs: Stranded in Albania, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten), How China Uses Guantánamo’s Former Uyghur Prisoners to Justify the Mass Imprisonment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province

261 Juma Al Dossari (Bahrain-Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapters 7, 8, 11, 15, 18, 19, mentioned in Yemeni Seized in Georgia, Who Has Not Been Able to Make Contact With His Family in 13 Years at Guantánamo, Seeks Release Via Review Board

262 Abdullah Al Wafi Al Harbi (Al Wafti) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 4

263 Ashraf Sultan (Libya) RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Georgia) Chapter 7 (footnote), also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured Crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2)

264 Abdul Aziz Al Baddah (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

265 Tariq Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

266 Abdullah Al Ghanimi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Chapter 6, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Four of Ten)

267 Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed (Spain) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapters 7, 11, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Four of Ten)

268 Abdul Rahman Al Hataybi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Website Extras 4

For more, see Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.

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Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer (of an ongoing photo-journalism project, ‘The State of London’), film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (and see the latest photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (available on DVD here, or you can watch it online here, via the production company Spectacle, for £2.50).

In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of the documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and he also set up ‘No Social Cleansing in Lewisham’ as a focal point for resistance to estate destruction and the loss of community space in his home borough in south east London. For two months, from August to October 2018, he was part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody. Although the garden was violently evicted by bailiffs on October 29, 2018, and the trees were cut down on February 27, 2019, the struggle for housing justice — and against environmental destruction — continues.

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