Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 4)

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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 2 covers 134-268, 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 4)

ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References

Mostly captured in Jalalabad or in the vicinity of Tora Bora (Dec 2001)

497 Nasir Al Subii (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 2

498 Mohammed Haidel (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Oman) Chapter 8, also see Website Extras 2, 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

499 Redouane Chekhouri (Morocco) RELEASED JUL 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five), mentioned in Former Guantánamo Prisoner Younous Chekkouri’s First Interview Since Being Released from Prison in Morocco

500 Emdash Abdullah Turkash (listed as being from Turkmenistan, although he is an Afghan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

501 Nawaf Al Otaibi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Website Extras 2, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

502 Abdul Ourgy (Abdul bin Ourgy) (Tunisia) RELEASED DEC 2014 (in Uruguay), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, Guantánamo Lawyers Urge Obama Administration to Approve Release of Six Men to Uruguay, New Life in Uruguay for Six Former Guantánamo Prisoners, Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Uruguay Struggle to Adapt to Freedom, Strangers in a Strange Land: My Interview About the Struggles of the Six Men Freed from Guantánamo in Uruguay, Former Hunger Striker Abu Wa’el Dhiab and Other Guantánamo Prisoners Freed in Uruguay Discuss Their Problems, Der Spiegel Publishes Detailed Profile of the Former Guantánamo Prisoners in Uruguay, Struggling to Adapt to a New Life

503 Saleh Al Zuba (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 4, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

504 Aminulla Amin (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

505 Khalid Al Muri (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Website Extras 2, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

506 Khalid Al Dhuby (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Ghana), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 2, 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

507 Sultan Al Anazi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 4, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

508 Salman Al Rabie (Salman Rabeii) (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Oman), CLEARED BY PRB (Dec 2016), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (May 2016) Chapter 4 (footnote), also see Website Extras 2, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), The Prisoners Speak: Reports from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo, 16th Guantánamo Prisoner Seeks Release Via Periodic Review Board

509 Mohammed Khusruf (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in July 2021 Chapters 4, 16, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

510 Riyad Nasseri (Mohammed Tahir Riyadh Nasseri) (Tunisia) RELEASED DEC 2009 (extradited to Italian custody, received six-year sentence in Italy, Feb 2011, overturned on appeal, Feb 2012) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail, Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians, Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo and Sent Home from Italy Reflects on His Imprisonment, mentioned in Video: Tunisian Freed from Guantánamo Calls for the Return of His Compatriots

511 Sulaiman Al Nahdi (Suleiman) (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2015 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in July 2021 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 4, also see The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion, 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, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

512 Mamhud Sadik (Mohammed Saduq) (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 9, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

513 Abdul Rahman Khowlan (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 4, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

514 Abdullah Al Anazi (al-Unazi Thani) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Chapter 4

515 Israr Ul Haq (Pakistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 Website Extras 8, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

516 Ghanim Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED JUL 2007 Chapter 4

517 Sultan Mohammed (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

518 Khirullah Akah (Afghanistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

519 Mahrar Al Quwari (Palestine) RELEASED DEC 2009 (in Hungary) Chapter 4, mentioned in More Dubious Charges in the Guantánamo Trials, Guantánamo’s refugees

520 Abdul Karim (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

521 Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev (Kazakhstan) RELEASED NOV 2008 Chapter 10

522 Yasin Ismail (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021 CLEARED BY PRB (Dec 2016), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2016), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010), UPHELD ON APPEAL (Apr 2011) Chapter 4, also see An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), More Judicial Interference on Guantánamo, 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, 24th Periodic Review Board Held at Guantánamo for Yemeni Who Has Become A Health Adviser to His Fellow Prisoners, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

523 Ehssanullah (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 8, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

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

525 Ataullah Adam Gul (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Three of Five)

526 Yakub Abahanov (Kazakhstan) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

527 Mohamman Daoud (Afghanistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 2, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Three of Five)

528 Abdullah Magrupov (Kazakhstan) RELEASED DEC 2006 Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

529 Bacha Khan (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

530 Dawd Gul (Afghanistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 8, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Three of Five)

531 Abdul Hanan (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Website Extras 8, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

532 Mohammed Sharif (Afghanistan) RELEASED AUG 2007 Website Extras 8

533 Hassan Zumiri (Ahcene Zemiri) (Algeria-Canada) RELEASED JAN 2010 Chapter 4

534 Tarek Dergoul (UK) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapters 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, also see UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues (discussing the prisoners who died in June 2006), Relatives of Disputed Guantánamo Suicides Speak Out As Families Appeal in US Court, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten), More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo and in Afghanistan and Iraq, 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

535 Tariq El Sawah (al-Sawah) (Egypt-Bosnia) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Bosnia), CLEARED BY PRB (Feb 2015), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 4, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, A Call for 90 Men to be Freed from Guantánamo on the 11th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Lawyers Seek Release from Guantánamo of Tariq Al-Sawah, an Egyptian Prisoner Who is Very Ill, How the Egyptian Media Has Reported the Story of Tariq Al-Sawah, a Severely Ill Prisoner in Guantánamo, Penny Lane: What We Learned This Week About Double Agents at Guantánamo, A Few Surprises in the New Guantánamo Prisoner List, Progress Towards Closing Guantánamo, As Periodic Review Boards Resume with the Case of a Seriously Ill Egyptian, Life After Guantánamo: Egyptian in Bosnia, Stranded in Legal Limbo, Seeks Clarification of His Rights, Deprivation and Despair: New Report Details Crisis of Medical Care at Guantánamo

536 Mohammed Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED FEB 2007 Website Extras 8

537 Mahmud Al Ali (Syria) RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2010 (in Germany) Website Extras 8

538 Amanullah Alikozi (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

539 Noor Allah (Afghanistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

540 Mohammed Omar (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Website Extras 8, 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 Six of Ten)

541 Mohammed Noman (Pakistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

542 Mohammed Abas (Pakistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

543 Nuri Mert (Turkey) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapter 10, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

544 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, 212 and 241, above, and 548, 583 and 697-8, below)

545 Sajin Urayman (Pakistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 8, 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 Six of Ten)

546 Muhibullah (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2005 Chapter 10, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Three of Five)

547 Wali Mohammed (Afghanistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

548 NO ISN (as revealed by WikiLeaks in the release of the classified military files relating to the prisoners in 2011, this was Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister at the time of the 9/11 attacks, who sent an envoy to warn the US of the attacks after hearing about them from Tohir Yuldashev, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. He surrendered in early February 2002, and was held, mostly in Bagram, until October 2003. For other missing ISN numbers, see 180, 212, 241 and 544, above, and 583 and 697-8, below).

549 Omar Al Dayi (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Oman) Website Extras 2, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)

550 Walid Zaid (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in Oman) Chapter 4, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001)

551 Fouad Al Rabiah (Al Rabia) (Kuwait) RELEASED DEC 2009, WON HABEAS PETITION (Sep 2009) Chapters 4, 18, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden, A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, 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, Can Kuwait Break the Guantánamo Deadlock?, Life After Guantánamo: Kuwaitis Discuss Their Tortured Confessions, After a Wonderful Visit to Kuwait, New Plans to Close Guantánamo and to Free the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners, Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo: Revisiting a Major Article in the New Yorker, 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

552 Fayiz Al Kandari (Kuwait) RELEASED JAN 2016, CLEARED BY PRB (Sep 2015), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Jul 2014), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Sep 2010) Chapter 4, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Story Of Fayiz Al-Kandari, Rubbing Salt in Guantánamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detention, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), Fayiz Al-Kandari, A Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantánamo, Loses His Habeas Petition, Please Sign Petition Asking Eric Holder to Release Fayiz Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantánamo, 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, The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners, Meet the Seven Guantánamo Prisoners Whose Appeals Were Turned Down by the Supreme Court, My Photos on Flickr: Visiting Kuwait to Campaign for the Last Two Kuwaiti Prisoners in Guantánamo, A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo, Voices from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo, “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike, 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, Kuwaiti Prisoners Fawzi Al-Odah and Fayiz Al-Kandari Ask Periodic Review Board to Free Them from Guantánamo, War Is Over, Set Us Free, Say Guantánamo Prisoners; Judge Says No, Fayiz Al-Kandari, the Last Kuwaiti in Guantánamo, and a Saudi Prisoner Ask Review Boards to Send Them Home, mentioned in Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo: Revisiting a Major Article in the New Yorker

553 Abdul Khaliq Al Baidhani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2014 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 4 (footnote), also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Two: Captured in Afghanistan (2001), mentioned in “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike

554 Fehmi Al Assani (Yemen) RELEASED NOV 2015 (in UAE), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Chapter 4, also see The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion, 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

555 Abdul Majid Muhammed (Iran) RELEASED OCT 2006 Chapter 10, also see Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials, The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Nov 2001-Feb 2002)

556 Abdullah Khan (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2008 Chapter 15, also see Website Extras 9

557 Abu Sufian Bin Qumu (Libya) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 9, 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, Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001

558 Moazzam Begg (UK) RELEASED JAN 2005 Chapters 12, 14, 15, also see Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, Moazzam Begg on Ramadan and Eid ul-Fitr in Bagram and Guantánamo, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International, Moazzam Begg’s dignified explanation of why he is not attending Amnesty’s screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Sunday Times misrepresents views of Amnesty’s Sam Zarifi, Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Dangerous Game: A Reply to Gita Sahgal and Her Supporters, Moazzam Begg Visits Pakistan: My Return to the Scene of the Crime, Moazzam Begg Interviews Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Adel El-Gazzar in Slovakia, Gareth Peirce Discusses Her New Book, “Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice”, As the UK Government Announces Compensation for Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners, Is the Return of Shaker Aamer Part of the Deal?, The UK Government’s Guantánamo Guilt, and the Urgent Need for Shaker Aamer’s Return, Moazzam Begg Explains How Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners Offered to Forego Compensation for Return of Shaker Aamer, Moazzam Begg in The Independent: The UK Government “Would Not Have Paid Up If They Thought They Could Win”, Guantánamo and the Wikileaks Documents, Including Yemeni and Uighur “Problems,” and Praise for Moazzam Begg, Announcing the Polish Tour of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” with Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington, February 1-5, 2011, Bringing Guantánamo to Poland — and Talking About the Secret CIA Torture Prison, Moazzam Begg Interviews Former Guantánamo Prisoner Saber Lahmer in Paris, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Three of Five), War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Guilty of Torture in Guantánamo and Iraq, 25 Former Prisoners Urge President Obama to Close Guantánamo, The Suspicious Arrest of Former Guantánamo Prisoner Moazzam Begg, Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Arrest of Former Guantánamo Prisoner Moazzam Begg with Andrea Sears, Charges Against Moazzam Begg Dropped; Why Was He Ever Held in the First Place?, 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, mentioned in Obama’s Failure to Close Guantánamo: Revisiting a Major Article in the New Yorker, Video: “Zone of Non-Being: Guantánamo,” Featuring Andy Worthington, Omar Deghayes, Clive Stafford Smith, Michael Ratner, Sad Confirmation that Second Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Resettled in Senegal Has Been Forcibly Returned to Libya, Where His Life Is At Risk, UK Torture: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner’s Memories Provide A Reminder That We Need Accountability, As Mohamedou Ould Slahi is Denied a Passport, Remember That All Former Guantánamo Prisoners Live Without Fundamental Rights, Standing the Test of Time: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Moazzam Begg and I Discuss Guantánamo, Torture and Endless War on the 19th Anniversary of 9/11 on Salaamedia, Guantánamo Voices: An Amazing Comic Book Version of the Guantánamo Story, Torture Victims Lead Call for Torture Apologists Avril Haines and Mike Morell Not to be Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence and CIA Director, Seven Authors, All Former Guantánamo Prisoners, Urge President Biden to Close the Prison Before its 20th Anniversary, The Shameful Human Cost of Inertia at Joe Biden’s Guantánamo

559 Bader Zaman Bader (Afghanistan) RELEASED SEP 2004 Chapter 12, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

560 Haji Wali Mohammed (Afghanistan) RELEASED JAN 2017 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned (although he was eventually repatriated to Afghanistan) CLEARED BY PRB (Oct 2016) Chapter 12, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), US in Talks to Return the 17 Afghan Prisoners in Guantánamo, Close Guantánamo, Free the Afghans, Afghan Moneychanger Seeks Release from Guantánamo Via Periodic Review Board, Guantánamo Scandal: The Released Prisoners Languishing in Secretive Detention in the UAE, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

561 Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost (Afghanistan) RELEASED APR 2005 Chapter 12, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Poetry and politics at Guantánamo: an interview with Marc Falkoff, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Three of Five), mentioned in Haji Ghalib, the Afghan Freed from Guantánamo Who Is Now Fighting Isis and the Taliban

562 Ehsanullah Peerzai (Afghanistan) RELEASED AUG 2006 Chapter 10, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

563 Sohab Mahud Mohammed (Iraq) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

564 Jalal Bin Amer (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama) Chapter 12, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), The 11-Year Old American Girl Who Knows More About Guantánamo Than Most US Lawmakers, Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike

565 Abdul Hakim Al Mousa (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2007 Website Extras 9

566 Mansoor Qattaa (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED APR 2016 (in Saudi Arabia), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 9, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), mentioned in “It’s Going to End in Men Dying”: Carlos Warner, Guantánamo Attorney, Discusses the Hunger Strike, featured in Close Guantánamo: President Obama, Drop Your Ban on Releasing Yemenis

567 Mohammed Sulaymon Barre (Mohamed Saleban Bare) (Somalia) RELEASED DEC 2009 Chapter 12, also see “Hell on Earth”: Released Somali Speaks about Guantánamo

568 Adel Al Zamel (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapters 11, 12, 14, 19, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five), Life after Guantánamo Bay: Jenifer Fenton Talks to Kuwaiti Ex-Prisoners for Al-Jazeera

569 Zohair Al Shorabi (Yemen) CLEARED FOR RELEASE BY PRB (Nov 2021), NOT CLEARED BY PRB (Mar 2016) Website Extras 9, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), The 11-Year Old American Girl Who Knows More About Guantánamo Than Most US Lawmakers, 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, Yemeni Is 27th Guantánamo Prisoner to Face Periodic Review Board; 4th Man Has Detention Upheld, 36 Others Await Reviews, 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, 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”, included in Really? Trump Lawyer Argues in Court that Guantánamo Prisoners Can Be Held for 100 Years Without Charge or Trial, No Escape from Guantánamo: Former Child Prisoner Boycotts Broken Review Process, Calls It “Hopeless”

570 Sabri Al Qurashi (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2014 (in Kazakhstan), CLEARED (under Obama) Website Extras 9, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), Guantánamo’s Difficult Diaspora: Former Prisoner Hussein Al-Merfedy, in Slovakia, Still Feels in a Cage

571 Sa’ad Al Azmi (Kuwait) RELEASED NOV 2005 Chapter 12, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

572 Salah Al Zabe (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2014 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama), CLEARED (under Bush) Website Extras 9, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), Abandoned in Guantánamo: WikiLeaks Reveals the Yemenis Cleared for Release for Up to Seven Years, Guantánamo’s Difficult Diaspora: Former Prisoner Hussein Al-Merfedy, in Slovakia, Still Feels in a Cage

573 Rustam Akhmyarov (Russia) RELEASED FEB 2004 Chapter 18, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Six of Ten)

574 Hamoud Al Wady (listed as Yemen but released in Saudi Arabia) RELEASED DEC 2013, CLEARED (under Obama) Chapter 12, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3)

575 Saad Al Azani (Yemen) RELEASED JUN 2015 (in Oman), CLEARED (under Obama) Chapter 12, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), The 11-Year Old American Girl Who Knows More About Guantánamo Than Most US Lawmakers

576 Zahir Bin Hamdoun (Zaher Hamdoun) (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2016 (in UAE), but subsequently imprisoned; forcibly repatriated to Yemen in 2021 CLEARED BY PRB (Jan 2016) Website Extras 9, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide Hunger Strike, Yemeni Prisoner Zaher Hamdoun Says He Is “Buried in a Grave Called Guantánamo”, Zahir Hamdoun, the 21st Guantánamo Prisoner Seeking Release Via A Periodic Review Board, After Years in Secret Prisons, UAE Threatens Unsafe Repatriations to Yemen for Former Guantánamo Prisoners

577 Jamal Mar’i (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2009 Chapter 16, also see UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record

578 Abdul Aziz Al Suadi (Yemen) RELEASED JAN 2016 (in Montenegro) Chapters 12, 19, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3)

579 Khairullah Khairkhwa (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2014 (in Qatar), LOST HABEAS PETITION (Jun 2011) Chapter 12, also see Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 3), Guantánamo and the Death of Habeas Corpus, 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, The Taliban’s Victory in Afghanistan Mustn’t Prevent the Closure of Guantánamo

580 Noor Ahmad (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

581 Saeed Abdur Rahman (Pakistan) RELEASED MAR 2005 Chapter 12 (footnote), also see Website Extras 9, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

582 Abdul Rahman Noorani (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Chapter 15, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

583 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, 212, 241, 544 and 548, above, and 697-8, below)

584 Adel Noori (China) RELEASED OCT 2009 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 2008) Website Extras 9, 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

585 Ibrahim Al Umar (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five), WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo

586 Karama Khamisan (Yemen) RELEASED AUG 2005 Chapters 12, 14, 15, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

587 Brahim Benchekroun (Morocco) RELEASED JUL 2004 Chapters 12, 14, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

588 Mani Al Utaybi (al-Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 2006 Chapter 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, 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, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, 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, 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 Seven of Ten), 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

589 Khalid Al Asmar (Jordan) RELEASED JUL 2005 Chapter 12, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

590 Ahmed Errachidi (Morocco-UK) RELEASED APR 2007 Chapters 12, 19, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Two Americas, both unjust, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, Ahmed Errachidi, Guantánamo Prisoner 590: The Cook Who Became The General, Book and Video: Ahmed Errachidi, The Cook Who Became “The General” in Guantánamo, Chef Held at Guantánamo Calls Shaker Aamer a “Beautiful, Great Man” But Warns of Difficulties Adapting to Freedom, Never Forget: The “Season of Death” at Guantánamo, Seven Authors, All Former Guantánamo Prisoners, Urge President Biden to Close the Prison Before its 20th Anniversary, Photos and Report: The Wet But Spirited Close Guantánamo Protest in London, Jan. 8, 2022, and an Online Gathering of Former Prisoners

Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov 2001-May 2002)

591 Qari Esmhatulla (Afghanistan) RELEASED OCT 2006 Chapter 14 (footnote), 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 2006 (Part Seven of Ten)

592-622 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)

623 Bakhtiar Bameri (Iran) RELEASED MAR 2004 Chapter 14, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

624 Majid Mehmood (Pakistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

625 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)

626 Noor Habib Ullah (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

627 Ayman Batarfi (Yemen) RELEASED DEC 2009 Chapter 14, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo, 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, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today

628 Nematuallah Sahib Khan Alizai (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

629 Mahngur Alikhan (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

630 Nisar Rahmad (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

631 Padsha Wazir (Afghanistan) RELEASED APR 2005 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

632 Rostum Shah (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Chapter 10, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

633 Muhammed Naim Farooq (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

634 Ali Mohammed (Pakistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

635 Mohammed Akhber (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

636 Nathi Gul (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

637 Insanullah (Afghanistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

638 Badshah Wali (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 Chapter 14, also see WikiLeaks and the 14 Missing Guantánamo Files, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

639 Bismillah (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

640 Niaz Wali (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 Chapter 14, also see WikiLeaks and the 14 Missing Guantánamo Files, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Seven of Ten)

641 Abdul-Karim Ergashev (Abdulrahmon Rajabov) (Tajikistan) RELEASED JUL 2004 Chapter 19, also see Tajikistan: ex-Guantánamo prisoner plans to sue George Bush, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

642 Hamidullah (Afghanistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

643 Mohammed Tahir (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAY 2003 Chapter 10, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

644 Mirza Muhammed (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 Website Extras 11, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

645 Mohammed Kabel (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Four of Five)

646 Azizullah Asekzai (Afghanistan) RELEASED JUL 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Five of Five), An Assessment of the Importance of the Classified Guantánamo Military Files Released by WikiLeaks and My Role in Analyzing Them

647 Zaban Al Shamaree (al-Shammari) (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED SEP 2007 Website Extras 11

648 Haydar Jabbar Hafez Al Tamimi (Iraq) RELEASED MAR 2004 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Five of Five)

649 Mushtaq Ali Patel (France) RELEASED MAR 2005 Chapter 14, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

650 Jabir Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 11

651 Usama Abu Kabir (Osama) (Jordan) RELEASED NOV 2007 Website Extras 11

652 Abdullah Al Qahtani (Saudi Arabia) RELEASED MAY 2006 Chapter 14, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Eight of Ten)

653 Arkan Al Karim (Iraq) RELEASED JAN 2009 Chapter 14, also see Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

654 Abdul Hamid Al Ghizzawi (Libya) RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama) Chapters 14, 19, also see The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Horror at Guantánamo, Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer, More Dark Truths from Guantánamo, as Five Innocent Men Released

655 Khudaidad (Afghanistan) RELEASED FEB 2006 Chapter 14, also see The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and the Prisoners Released in 2006 (Part Eight of Ten)

656 Abdul Baqi (Afghanistan) RELEASED NOV 2003 WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners of Guantánamo (Part Five of Five)

657 Haji Faiz Mohammed (Afghanistan) RELEASED OCT 2002 Chapter 14 (he was 70 years old), also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

658 Bismillah (Afghanistan) RELEASED MAR 2003 Chapter 14, also see WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

659 Abdulnour Sameur (Abdennour Sameur) (UK-Algeria) RELEASED DEC 2007 Chapters 7, 8, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, mentioned in On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer

660 Lotfi Bin Swei Lagha (Tunisia) RELEASED JUN 2007 (imprisoned in Tunisia, but released Jun 2010) Chapter 7, also see “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, “I’m innocent,” says Guantánamo detainee Lotfi Lagha, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in Tunisia, What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including Guantánamo Detainees?, Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians, Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001, mentioned in A Dream of Freedom Soured: Former Guantánamo Prisoners in Tunisia Face Ongoing Persecution

661 Mamdouh Habib (Australia) RELEASED JAN 2005 Chapters 16, 19, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, As Egyptians Call for Mubarak’s Fall, He Appoints America’s Favorite Torturer as Vice President, 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, Empathy and Self-Reflection: An Extraordinary Article by Jason Leopold About His Friendship with Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks, The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As Revealed by His Former Friend and Colleague, Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to 2005 (Part Four of Five)

For more, see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5 and Part 6.

Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer, film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose debut album ‘Love and War’ and EP ‘Fighting Injustice’ are available here to download or on CD via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (and the Countdown to Close Guantánamo initiative, launched in January 2016), the co-director of We Stand With Shaker, which called for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison (finally freed on October 30, 2015), and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by the University of Chicago Press in the US, and available from Amazon, including a Kindle edition — click on the following for the US and the UK) 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 here for the US).