Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 1)

Andy Worthington speaking outside the White House on January 11, 2016, the 14th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo (Photo: Justin Norman).

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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 2 covers ISN numbers (prisoner numbers) 134-268; 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 36 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 1)

ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References

Captured in Afghanistan (Nov-Dec 2001)

001 NO ISN John Walker Lindh, not sent to Guantánamo because he is a US citizen, received 20-year sentence in Oct 2002; see Chapters 2, 3, 8, 18, also see Refuting Cheney’s Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo, Free John Walker Lindh, Scapegoat of the “War on Terror”, John Walker Lindh, Torture Victim and 9/11 Scapegoat, Profiled by His Father, The Long Persecution of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”

002 David Hicks (Australia) RELEASED MAY 2007, ACCEPTED MILITARY COMMISSION PLEA DEAL (Mar 2007), CONVICTION OVERTURNED (Feb 2015) Chapters 9, 15, 18, 19, 20, also see: MILITARY COMMISSION, The Dark Heart of the Guantánamo Trials, 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials, Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Describes His First Two Weeks at Camp X-Ray, Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions, Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revolution Interview with Andy Worthington, Empathy and Self-Reflection: An Extraordinary Article by Jason Leopold About His Friendship with Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Gives His First Interview — To Jason Leopold of Truthout, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten), US Military Admits Only 2.5 Percent of All Prisoners Ever Held at Guantánamo Will Be Tried, Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Appeals His 2007 Conviction for Non-Existent War Crime, 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); Radio: Andy Worthington Speaks to Michael Slate and Scott Horton About Guantánamo, David Hicks and Shaker Aamer, An Interview With David Hicks Following the Dismissal of His Guantánamo Conviction

003 Gholam Ruhani (Afghanistan) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 10, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

Abdul-Haq Wasiq, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

004 Abdul-Haq Wasiq (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2014 (in Qatar) Chapter 10, discussed in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One), also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), The “Taliban Five” and the Forgotten Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, Close Guantánamo, Free the Afghans, Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Cynical Hysteria About the Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, Radio: Andy Worthington Talks to Scott Horton and Peter B. Collins About the Latest Manufactured Guantánamo Scandal, Is Bowe Bergdahl Worth Five Taliban Prisoners? (for Al-Jazeera), Please Read Tom Wilner’s Op-Ed About the Bowe Bergdahl/Taliban Prisoner Swap, Pentagon Defends Bowe Bergdahl/Guantánamo Prisoner Swap as Government Accountability Office Delivers Critical Opinion

005 Abdul Aziz Al Matrafi (Abdallah al-Matrafi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 16, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

Mullah Norullah Noori, n a photo from Guantanamo included in the classified military files released by WikiLeaks in 2011.

006 Mullah Norullah Noori (Noorullah Noori) (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2014 (in Qatar) Chapter 10, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), The “Taliban Five” and the Forgotten Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, Close Guantánamo, Free the Afghans, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Cynical Hysteria About the Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, Radio: Andy Worthington Talks to Scott Horton and Peter B. Collins About the Latest Manufactured Guantánamo Scandal, Is Bowe Bergdahl Worth Five Taliban Prisoners? (for Al-Jazeera), Please Read Tom Wilner’s Op-Ed About the Bowe Bergdahl/Taliban Prisoner Swap, Pentagon Defends Bowe Bergdahl/Guantánamo Prisoner Swap as Government Accountability Office Delivers Critical Opinion

007 Mullah Mohammed Fazl (Mullah Fazil) (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2014 (in Qatar) Chapter 10, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), The “Taliban Five” and the Forgotten Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, Close Guantánamo, Free the Afghans, On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the Cynical Hysteria About the Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, Radio: Andy Worthington Talks to Scott Horton and Peter B. Collins About the Latest Manufactured Guantánamo Scandal, Is Bowe Bergdahl Worth Five Taliban Prisoners? (for Al-Jazeera), Please Read Tom Wilner’s Op-Ed About the Bowe Bergdahl/Taliban Prisoner Swap, Pentagon Defends Bowe Bergdahl/Guantánamo Prisoner Swap as Government Accountability Office Delivers Critical Opinion

008 Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul (Afghanistan) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 10, also see Who are ‘the worst of the worst’? (in the Guardian), The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten), The Taliban’s Victory in Afghanistan Mustn’t Prevent the Closure of Guantánamo

009 Yaser Hamdi (Yasser Hamdi) (USA-Saudi Arabia) TRANSFERRED TO CUSTODY ON US MAINLAND APR 2002, held as an enemy combatant until Oct 2004, when he renounced his US citizenship in exchange for being released in Saudi Arabia; Chapters 2, 18; also see Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers in Case of US “Enemy Combatant” Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri, WikiLeaks and the 14 Missing Guantánamo Files, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten), US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo?, What Should Trump Do With the US Citizen Seized in Syria and Held in Iraq as an “Enemy Combatant”?, US Supreme Court Supports Lifelong Imprisonment Without Charge or Trial at Guantánamo; Only Justice Breyer Dissents

010 Abdul Sattar (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

011 Abdul Sattar Safeezi (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

012 Shabidzada Usman (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

013 Fahed Mohamed Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 2 (footnote), also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

014 Zafar Iqbal (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

015 Zia Ul Shah (Pakistan) RELEASED OCT 2006 Chapter 9, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

016 Jamal Muhammad Al Deen (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

017 Muhammed Ijaz Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

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

019 Shah Mohammed Alikhel (Pakistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Chapters 9, 19, also see Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

020 Mohammed Ishaq (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

021 Salah Hudin (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

022 Shakhrukh Hamiduva (Uzbekistan) RELEASED SEP 2009 (in Ireland) Chapter 10, mentioned in Guantánamo’s refugees, also see WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo

Isa Khan, photographed a year after his release from Guantanamo.

023 Isa Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

024 Feroz Abbasi (UK) RELEASED JAN 2005 Chapter 10, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five), On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer

025 Majid Al Joudi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Chapter 19, also see Website Extras 8, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

Mostly captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (Dec 2001)

Fahd Ghazy, photographed before his capture and his rendition to Guantanamo.

026 Fahed Ghazi (Fahd Ghazy) (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 5, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, 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, As Three Yemenis Are Freed from Guantánamo, Video Highlights Plight of 52 Others, Long Cleared for Release, Video: Andy Worthington Speaks About Guantánamo and We Stand With Shaker in New York, Plus Lawyers Ramzi Kassem and Omar Farah

Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

027 Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman (Yemen) CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (May 2021), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (May 2016), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Jan 2017), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (May 2018), WON HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), LOST ON APPEAL (Mar 2011) Chapter 5, also see The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is Not Necessary to Hold Insignificant Guantánamo Prisoners for the Rest of Their Lives, The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners, Meet the Seven Guantánamo Prisoners Whose Appeals Were Turned Down by the Supreme Court, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Two More Yemeni “Forever Prisoners” Seek Release from Guantánamo Via Periodic Review Boards

Moath al-Alwi (aka Muaz or Moaz al-Alawi), in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

028 Moath Al Alwi (Muaz Al Alawi) (Yemen) CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (Dec 2021), NOT CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (Oct 2020), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Oct 2015), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Dec 2016), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 2009), LOST APPEAL (Jul 2011) Website Extras 3, No End in Sight for the “Enemy Combatants” of Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Guantánamo and the Death of Habeas Corpus, The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners, Meet the Seven Guantánamo Prisoners Whose Appeals Were Turned Down by the Supreme Court, The Prisoners Speak: Reports from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Although Two Men Weigh 75 Pounds or Less, Guantánamo Prisoner Moath Al-Alwi Says, “We Will Remain on Hunger Strike”, mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding, “It Is All Theater, It Is All A Game,” Yemeni “Forever Prisoner” Says from Guantánamo, Guantánamo “An Endless Horror Movie”: Hunger Striker Appeals for Help to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, War Is Over, Set Us Free, Say Guantánamo Prisoners; Judge Says No, 97-Pound Yemeni Hunger Striker Appears Before Periodic Review Board As Saudi is Approved for Release from Guantánamo, mentioned in US Military Lawyer Submits Petition to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Behalf of Mohammad Rahim, CIA Torture Victim Held at Guantánamo, mentioned in At Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Djamel Ameziane Asks US to Apologize, and Calls for Prison’s Closure, Persistent Dehumanization at Guantánamo: US Claims It Owns Prisoners’ Art, Just As It Claims to Own Their Memories of Torture, Curator of Guantánamo Art Show Responds to Authorities’ Threats to Burn Prisoners’ Work: “Art Censorship and Destruction Are Tactics of Terrorist Regimes, Not US Military”, 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, Guantánamo’s Periodic Review Boards: The Escape Route Shut Down by Donald Trump, US Supreme Court Supports Lifelong Imprisonment Without Charge or Trial at Guantánamo; Only Justice Breyer Dissents, Humanizing the Silenced and Maligned: Guantánamo Prisoner Art at CUNY Law School in New York, Photos and Report: The Launch of “Guantánamo [Un]Censored: Art from Inside the Prison” at CUNY School of Law in New York, President Elect Biden, It’s Time to Close Guantánamo, Video: I Discuss Resistance and Creativity at Guantánamo and the Plight of Former Prisoners with Mansoor Adayfi, The Powerful Artwork Still Being Created by Prisoners at Guantánamo, and the Outrageous Ban on its Dissemination That is Still in Place

029 Mohammed Al Ansi (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Oman), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2016), CLEARED BY PRB (Dec 2016) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo and in Afghanistan and Iraq, Afghan Approved for Release from Guantánamo, as Lawyer Presents Persuasive Case for Release of Yemeni Who Has Become A Prolific Artist, Persistent Dehumanization at Guantánamo: US Claims It Owns Prisoners’ Art, Just As It Claims to Own Their Memories of Torture, Curator of Guantánamo Art Show Responds to Authorities’ Threats to Burn Prisoners’ Work: “Art Censorship and Destruction Are Tactics of Terrorist Regimes, Not US Military”, Reviewing the Guantánamo Art Show in New York That Dared to Show Prisoners As Human Beings, and Led to a Pentagon Clampdown

Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed al-Hikimi in a photo from the classified military files released by Wikileaks in 2011.

030 Ahmed Al Hikimi (Yemen) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, mentioned in “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike

031 Mahmoud Al Mujahid (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021, CLEARED BY PRB (Jan 2014) Chapter 5, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Guantánamo’s secretive review boards, The American Lawyer’s Six Guantánamo Bar Profiles: Thomas Wilner, David Remes, Jennifer Cowan, Wells Dixon, David Nevin and Lee Wolosky, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

Farouq Ali Ahmed, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

032 Faruq Ali Ahmed (Farouq Ali Ahmed, Farouq Saif) (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 09 Chapter 5, also see Guantánamo Whistleblowers: Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is not the first insider to condemn the kangaroo courts, Video: Al-Jazeera’s Powerful and Important Documentary, “Life After Guantánamo”

033 Mohammed Al Adahi (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in July 2021, WON HABEAS PETITION (Aug 2009), LOST ON APPEAL (Jul 2010) Chapter 12, also see No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, What Does It Take To Get Out Of Obama’s Guantánamo?, 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 Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), Habeas Hell: How the Great Writ Was Gutted at Guantánamo, More Judicial Interference on Guantánamo, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

034 Abdullah Al Yafi (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years

Idris Qader Idris, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

035 Idris Qader Idris (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, mentioned in “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike

036 Ibrahim Idris (Sudan) DIED IN SUDAN (Feb 2021), RELEASED DEC 2013, CLEARED (under Obama) Chapter 5, also see Bin Laden Cook Expected to Serve Two More Years at Guantánamo – And Some Thoughts on the Remaining Sudanese Prisoners, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, The Schizophrenic in Guantánamo Whose Lawyers Are Seeking to Have Him Sent Home, Some Progress on Guantánamo: The Envoy, the Habeas Case and the Periodic Reviews, The American Lawyer’s Six Guantánamo Bar Profiles: Thomas Wilner, David Remes, Jennifer Cowan, Wells Dixon, David Nevin and Lee Wolosky

Abd al-Malik Wahab al-Rahabi (aka Abdul Malik al-Rahabi), in a photo taken by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross at Guantanamo, and made available to his family, who made it publicly available via his lawyers.

037 Abdul Malik Al Rahabi (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2016 (in Montenegro), CLEARED BY PRB (Dec 2014) NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2014) Chapters 5, 8, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Guantánamo: Where Being Cleared for Release Means Nothing, Indefinitely Detained Guantánamo Prisoner Asks Review Board to Recommend His Release, Guantánamo Forever (for Al-Jazeera), The American Lawyer’s Six Guantánamo Bar Profiles: Thomas Wilner, David Remes, Jennifer Cowan, Wells Dixon, David Nevin and Lee Wolosky, Persistent Dehumanization at Guantánamo: US Claims It Owns Prisoners’ Art, Just As It Claims to Own Their Memories of Torture, Guantánamo’s Lost Diaspora: How Donald Trump’s Closure of the Office Monitoring Ex-Prisoners is Bad for Them – and US Security (resettlement in Sudan)

038 Ridah Al Yazidi (Tunisia) CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 5, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, Emptying Guantánamo: Obama to Release 17 or 18 Prisoners Before Trump Takes Over, Trump’s Personal Prisoners at Guantánamo: The Five Men Cleared for Release But Still Held

Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

Yemeni prisoner Abdel Qadir Mudafari, one of 15 Guantanamo prisoners released last week, and given new homes in the United Arab Emirates, in a photo included in the classified military files released by WikiLeaks in 2011.

040 Abdel Nadir Al Mudafari (al-Mudhaffari) (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021, where he subsequently disappeared; Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

041 Majid Ahmad (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021, CLEARED BY PRB (Feb 2016) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Two Yemenis Approved for Release from Guantánamo Via Periodic Review Boards As “Highly Compliant” Afghan and Another Yemeni Also Seek Release, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

042 Abdul Rahman Shalabi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2015, CLEARED BY PRB (Jun 2015) Chapter 19, Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Secrecy Still Shrouds Guantánamo’s Five-Year Hunger Striker, mentioned in Were Two Prisoners Killed at Guantánamo in 2007 and 2009?, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, TV and Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Ongoing Guantánamo Hunger Strike on Press TV and on KBOO FM, mentioned in Long-Term Guantánamo Hunger Striker Emad Hassan Describes the Torture of Force-Feeding, Abdul Rahman Shalabi, Hunger Striker Since 2005, Asks Review Board to Approve His Release from Guantánamo

Samir Moqbel, photographed in Guantanamo. The photo was included in the classified military files released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

043 Samir Moqbel (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman) Chapter 5, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, A Voice from Guantánamo: Samir Moqbel, a Hunger Striker Brutally Force-Fed Every Day, 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, Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the Guantánamo Hunger Strike

044 Mohammed Ghanim (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Saudi Arabia), CLEARED BY PRB (Jul 2016) Chapters 5, 15, 19, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Don’t Forget the Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Periodic Review Board at Guantánamofor Yemeni Subjected to Long-Term Sleep Deprivation in Prison’s Early Years

045 Ali Ahmad Al Rezehi (Al Razihi) (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2015 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021, CLEARED BY PRB (Apr 2014) Website Extras 3, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, Guantánamo Review Boards (1/3): Ali Ahmad Al-Razihi, a Yemeni, Asks to Be Sent Home, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

046 Sayf Bin Abdallah (Saleh Sassi) (Tunisia) RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 3, Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo, What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, A Dream of Freedom Soured: Former Guantánamo Prisoners in Tunisia Face Ongoing Persecution

047 Asad Ullah (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 3, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

048 Abdullah Alhamiri (UAE) RELEASED JUL 2008 Website Extras 3

049 Assem Matruq Al Aasmi (Walid Hijazi) (Palestine) RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Spain), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 9, Who Is the Palestinian Released from Guantánamo in Spain?, Abandoned in Spain: The Palestinian Freed from Guantánamo

050 Zayd Al Husayn Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 9, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

051 Majid Al Barayan (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 3, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

052 Isa Al Murbati (Bahrain) RELEASED AUG 2007 Chapters 8, 12, 15, also see Isolation in Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

053 Saud Dakhil Al Mahayawi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 3, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

Ibrahim al-Qosi, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

054 Ibrahim Al Qosi (Sudan) RELEASED JULY 2012, ACCEPTED MILITARY COMMISSION PLEA DEAL (2-year sentence, Jul 2010) Chapters 5, 18, MILITARY COMMISSION, also see The US military’s shameless propaganda over Guantánamo’s 9/11 trials, Torture, Preventive Detention and the Terror Trials At Guantánamo, Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume, MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama), Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions, Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantánamo Trial, Bin Laden Cook Expected to Serve Two More Years at Guantánamo – And Some Thoughts on the Remaining Sudanese Prisoners, On the 9th Anniversary of 9/11, A Call to Close Guantánamo and to Hold Accountable Those Who Authorized Torture, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, 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, Carol Rosenberg on the “Prison within a Prison” at Guantánamo for Four Convicted “War Criminals”, Will Guantánamo Ever Be Closed?, US Military Admits Only 2.5 Percent of All Prisoners Ever Held at Guantánamo Will Be Tried, Video: Andy Worthington, Todd Pierce and Steven Reisner Discuss Guantánamo and Torture in New York, January 9, 2014, Video: Todd Pierce Discusses the Lawlessness of Guantánamo’s Military Commissions on “London Real”, Former Guantánamo Military Defense Attorney Todd Pierce Interviewed by the Talking Dog, “Petty and Nasty”: Guantánamo Commander Bans Lawyers From Bringing Food to Share with Prisoners

055 Mohammed Al Zayla (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 5, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

056 Abdullah Tabarak (Morocco) RELEASED AUG 2003 Chapter 5, mentioned in Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, also see WikiLeaks and the 14 Missing Guantánamo Files, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

057 Salim Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 3, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

058 Musa Al Wahab (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Website Extras 3, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

059 Sultan Al Uwaydha (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Chapter 5, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

060 Adel Kamel Haji (Bahrain) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapters 5, 7, 8, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

061 Murat Kurnaz (Germany-Turkey) RELEASED AUG 2006 Chapter 12, also see Five Years in Guantánamo, Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, 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, Video: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Murat Kurnaz Tells His Story on Russia Today, New Revelations About The Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten), Rights Groups Call for the Arrest of George W. Bush for Torture as He Arrives in Canada, The Long Pursuit of Accountability for the Bush Administration’s Torture Program, Former Guantánamo Prisoner Younous Chekkouri Illegally Imprisoned in Morocco; As Murat Kurnaz Calls for His Release, Please Ask John Kerry to Act

062 Mohammed Al Jihani (Al Juhani) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Website Extras 3, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part One of Ten)

Mohammed al-Qahtani, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

063 Mohammed Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAR 2022, CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (Feb 2022), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (July 2016) Chapters 5, 15, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped), also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession, What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment”, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”, WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Guantánamo Files, Exposes Detention Policy as a Construct of Lies, The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson Captures the Despair in WikiLeaks’ Guantánamo Files, Col. Morris Davis Discusses Guantánamo, Torture and Intelligence in the Wake of the Latest WikiLeaks Revelations, New Revelations About The Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo, George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago, Torture Began at Guantánamo with Bush’s Presidential Memo 12 Years Ago, A Few Surprises in the New Guantánamo Prisoner List, mentioned in Andy Worthington’s Interview about Guantánamo and Torture for Columbia University’s Rule of Law Oral History Project, Why Guantánamo Mustn’t Be Forgotten in the Fallout from the CIA Torture Report, Guantánamo Lawyers Complain About Slow Progress of Periodic Review Boards, Fugitive From Justice: A Timeline of the Crimes Committed by Guantánamo’s Torture Chief, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, As He Fails to Show Up at a French Court, For Review Board, Revelations That Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner Mohammed Al-Qahtani Was Profoundly Mentally Ill Before Capture, How Guantánamo’s Periodic Review Boards Exposed Woefully Distorted Intelligence Assessments, Great New York Times Exposé of How Torture, Abuse and Command Indifference Compromised Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo, Why Camp X-Ray at Guantánamo Mustn’t Be Destroyed, Lawyers for Guantánamo Torture Victim Mohammed Al-Qahtani Urge Court to Enable Mental Health Assessment and Possible Repatriation to Saudi Arabia, Guantánamo’s Periodic Review Boards: The Escape Route Shut Down by Donald Trump, US Judge Orders Independent Psychiatric Assessment of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Judge Upholds Ruling Ordering Independent Medical Review for Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Mohammed Al-Qahtani: Will Severe Mental Illness Secure His Release from Guantánamo?, President Elect Biden, It’s Time to Close Guantánamo, Fighting Guantánamo in the Courts Under President Biden, The Bleak Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld: Guantánamo, Torture and Two Failed and Astonishingly Destructive Wars,Two Radio Shows: I Discuss Guantánamo with Buz Eisenberg and Misty Winston

064 Abdel Hadi Sebaii (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Chapter 5, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

Omar Rajab Amin, photographed before his capture.

065 Omar Rajab Amin (Kuwait) RELEASED SEP 2006 Chapter 5, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

066 Yahya Al Sulami (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapters 5, 15, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

067 Abdulrazzaq Al Sharikh (Abd al-Razaq al-Sharikh, al-Sharekh) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Chapter 5, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

068 Khalid Al Bawardi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Chapter 5, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

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

069 Sadeq Ismail (Sadeq Mohammed Said) (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2007 Website Extras 9, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

070 Abdul Raham Houari (Algeria) RELEASED JUL 2008 Website Extras 8

071 Mishal Al Shedoky (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 1, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

072 Lahcen Ikassrien (Spain) RELEASED JUL 2005 Website Extras 1, Spanish Court Gives Go-Ahead for Guantánamo Torture Investigation to Continue, The Case of Lahcen Ikassrien: Torture in Kandahar and Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

073 Yusif Khalil Nur (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

074 Mishal Saad Al Rashid (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 2, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

075 Najib Lahcini (Morocco) RELEASED FEB 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

076 Rukniddin Sharipov (Tajikistan) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 1, Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

077 Mehrabanb Fazrollah (Tajikistan) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

Mohammad al-Hanashi, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

078 Mohammad Al Hanashi (Muhammad Salih) (Yemen) DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 2009 Chapter 20, also see Website Extras 1, As a sixth “high-value detainee” is charged at Guantánamo, disturbing evidence surfaces, Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court, Death At Guantánamo Hovers Over Obama’s Middle East Visit, Binyam Mohamed: Was Muhammad Salih’s Death In Guantánamo Suicide?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Were Two Prisoners Killed at Guantánamo in 2007 and 2009?, 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, 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, Video: I Discuss Resistance and Creativity at Guantánamo and the Plight of Former Prisoners with Mansoor Adayfi

079 Fahed Al Harazi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Chapter 2, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

080 Fahd Al Shabrani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 1, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

Walid Ali, in a photo from Guantanamo included in the classified military files released by WikiLeaks in 2011.

081 Walid Mohammed Ali (Sudan) RELEASED MAY 2008 Chapter 2

082 Rasul Kudayev (Russia) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapters 2, 18, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

083 Yusef Nabied (Tajikistan) RELEASED JUL 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

084 Ilkham Batayev (Kazakhstan) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 2, mentioned in Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten)

085 Munir Bin Naseer (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten)

086 Shafiq Rasul (UK) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, Video: Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed Discuss US Detention at Kandahar, Bagram and Guantánamo with Andy Worthington at “Eid Without Aafia Siddiqui” Event, All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharmacological Waterboarding”, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten), mentioned in On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer, Seven Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners Unite in London to Call for Prison’s Closure on Jan. 11; Shaker Aamer Photographed With Inflatable Figure of Himself Outside US Embassy, UK Torture: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner’s Memories Provide A Reminder That We Need Accountability

087 Asif Iqbal (UK) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharmacological Waterboarding”, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten), On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer, Seven Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners Unite in London to Call for Prison’s Closure on Jan. 11; Shaker Aamer Photographed With Inflatable Figure of Himself Outside US Embassy, UK Torture: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner’s Memories Provide A Reminder That We Need Accountability

088 Adham Ali Awad (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Aug 2009), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010) Website Extras 8, No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part One), Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Habeas Hell: How the Great Writ Was Gutted at Guantánamo

Poolad Tsiradzho, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

089 Poolad Tsiradzho (Azerbaijan) RELEASED JAN 2010 (in Slovakia), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 1, Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners, Three Neglected Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Embark on a Hunger Strike, “It was better in Guantánamo,” Complains Egyptian Held in Slovak Detention Center, Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Slovakia?, Former Guantánamo Prisoners in Slovakia Finally Receive Residence Permits

090 Wahldof Abdul Mokit (Muqit Vohidov) (Tajikistan) RELEASED FEB 2007 Chapter 9 (footnote), also see Tajiks released from Guantánamo sentenced to 17 years in prison, Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guantánamo Tajiks, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

Yemeni prisoner Mohsen Aboassy, one of 15 Guantanamo prisoners released in August 2016, and given new homes in the United Arab Emirates, in a photo included in the classified military files released by WikiLeaks in 2011.

091 Abdul Al Saleh (Mohsen Aboassy) (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021; Website Extras 1, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)

092 Said Mohammed Alim Shah (allegedly the alias of Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud) (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

093 Yasser Talal Al Zahrani (Saudi Arabia) DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 2006 Chapters 2, 18, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons, US Court Denies Justice to Dead Men at Guantánamo, On the 5th Anniversary of the Disputed Guantánamo “Suicides,” Jeff Kaye Defends Scott Horton, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo, Teleconference: Five Years After Disputed “Suicides” at Guantánamo, Father of Dead Man Appeals Court’s Refusal to Consider His Case, Relatives of Disputed Guantánamo Suicides Speak Out As Families Appeal in US Court, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part One of Ten), Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Documentary “Death in Camp Delta,” Examining the Alleged Suicides in Guantánamo in June 2006, The Season of Death at Guantánamo, New Evidence Casts Doubt on US Claims that Three Guantánamo Deaths in 2006 Were Suicides, Remembering the Season of Death at Guantánamo, Video: RT America’s One-Hour Special on Guantánamo Featuring Andy Worthington, Joe Hickman, Nancy Hollander and Tom Wilner, Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead, Another Sad, Forgotten Anniversary for Guantánamo’s Dead, Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead, 12 Years After the Three Notorious Alleged Suicides of June 2006, 13 Years Ago, Three Men Died at Guantánamo, Victims of a Brutal Regime of Lawlessness That Is Fundamentally Unchanged Today, Never Forget: The “Season of Death” at Guantánamo, 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, The 16th Anniversary of the Implausible “Triple Suicide” at Guantánamo

094 Ibrahim Al Sehli (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Chapter 2, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

095 Abdul Rahman Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

096 Mohammed Al Utaybi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

097 Tariq Aziz Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 7, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

098 Hafiz Ehsan Saeed (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

099 Abdul Razaq (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Chapter 8, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

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

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

102 Nag Mohammed (Edham Mamet) (China) RELEASED OCT 2009 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Website Extras 1, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News and Good News for the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs

Arkin Mahmut (left) and his brother Bahtiyar, photographed in Switzerland, October 2010

104 Mohammed Khan Achezkai (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapter 15, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

105 Adnan Al Saigh (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

106 Mohammed Raz (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

Jan Mohammed, a baker, photographed after his release from Guantanamo in October 2002

107 Jan Mohammed Barakzai (Afghanistan) RELEASED OCT 2002 Chapter 9, mentioned in The Stories of the Afghans Just Released from Guantánamo: Intelligence Failures, Battlefield Myths and Unaccountable Prisons in Afghanistan (Part One), also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

108 Abdul Rauf Aliza (Afghanistan) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapter 9, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

109 Yusef Al Rabiesh (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapters 2, 8, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

110 Ruhal Ahmed (Rhuhel Ahmed) (UK) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapters 3, 8, 11, 15, 19, mentioned in The Convoy of Death: Will Obama Investigate The Afghan Massacre Of November 2001?, also see On YouTube: Guantánamo Guard and Ex-Prisoners Meet (via the BBC), White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, Video: Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed Discuss US Detention at Kandahar, Bagram and Guantánamo with Andy Worthington at “Eid Without Aafia Siddiqui” Event, All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharmacological Waterboarding”, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten), mentioned in On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer, Seven Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners Unite in London to Call for Prison’s Closure on Jan. 11; Shaker Aamer Photographed With Inflatable Figure of Himself Outside US Embassy, Videos: On 14th Anniversary of Opening of Guantánamo, Andy Worthington Speaks Outside the White House, Shaker Aamer Speaks in London, UK Torture: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner’s Memories Provide A Reminder That We Need Accountability

111 Ali Al Tayeea (Iraq) RELEASED JAN 2009 Chapter 2, also see A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Speaks

112 Abdul Aziz Al Oshan (Al Khaldi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Chapters 2, 8, also see Guantánamo’s Library: Adding Insult to Injury, Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry Potter at Guantánamo?, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

113 Sarfaraz Ahmed (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

114 Yousef Al Shehri (al-Shihri) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Chapters 9, 19, also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

115 Abdul Rahman Naser (Yemen) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 1, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years

116 Yamatolah Abulwance (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

Mukhtar al-Warafi, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

117 Mukhtar Al Warafi (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Mar 2010) Chapter 2, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit, With Regrets, Judge Allows Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo of a Medic, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Prisoners in Guantánamo Ask to be Freed Because of the End of the War in Afghanistan, War Is Over, Set Us Free, Say Guantánamo Prisoners; Judge Says No

118 Abdul Rahman Juma Kahm (Afghanistan) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 9, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

119 Suleiman Shah (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 Chapter 3, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

120 Rabel Khan (Habib Rasool) (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2005 Chapter 9, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part One of Five)

121 Salman Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

122 Bijad Al Atabi (al-Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 2, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Two of Ten)

123 Muhammad Hussein Ali Hassan (Morocco) RELEASED FEB 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

124 Janan Taus Khan (Afghanistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

125 Fawaz Al Zahrani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 1, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

126 Salim Al Shihri (Salam Abdullah Said) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

127 Ibrahim Al Shili (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 1, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Two of Ten)

Ghaleb al-Bihani, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

128 Ghaleb Al Bihani (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Oman), CLEARED BY PRB (May 2014), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jan 2009), LOST APPEAL (Jan 2010) Website Extras 1, How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part One), Nine Years After 9/11, US Court Concedes that International Laws of War Restrict President’s Wartime Powers, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Habeas Hell: How the Great Writ Was Gutted at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Review Boards (2/3): Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Cook, Asks to Be Sent Home to Yemen or to Another Country, Waiting for progress on Guantánamo (for Al-Jazeera), Persistent Dehumanization at Guantánamo: US Claims It Owns Prisoners’ Art, Just As It Claims to Own Their Memories of Torture, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination, Has a Dangerous Track Record of Defending Guantánamo and Unfettered Executive Power, Photos and Report: The Launch of “Guantánamo [Un]Censored: Art from Inside the Prison” at CUNY School of Law in New York

129 Toufig Al Marwai (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

130 Faha Sultan (Fahd al-Osaimi al-Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 1, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2007 (Part Three of Ten)

Salem Ben Kend, in a photo included in the classified US military documents (the Detainee Assessment Briefs) released by WikiLeaks in April 2011.

131 Salem Ben Kend (bin Kanad) (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Saudi Arabia), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (May 2014), CLEARED BY PRB (Apr 2016) Website Extras 1, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Guantánamo Review Boards (3/3): Salem Bin Kanad, from Riyadh, Refuses to Take Part in a System That Appears Increasingly Flawed

132 Abdul Salam Al Shehri (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUN 2006 Website Extras 1, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo, WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Two of Ten)

133 Mohammed Ouzar (Morocco) RELEASED JUL 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part One of Five)

For more, see Part 2, 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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