List of current detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay.[1]

Held in law-of-war detention but recommended for transfer if security conditions met[edit]

# Name Other name(s) Detained Country Notes
1 Khaled Ahmed Qasim Khalid al-Adeni 2002 Yemen
2 Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman 2002 Yemen
3 Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi Arsalan, Moaz al-Said 2002 Yemen
4 Ridah Bin Saleh Bin Mabrouk al-Yazidi 2002 Tunisia
5 Muin al-Din Jamal al-Din al-Fadil Abd al-Sattar Omar al-Farouq 2002 Stateless Rohingya
Myanmar prior to the 2017 Rohingya genocide
6 Suhayl Abduh Anam al-Sharabi Abdul Mohammed Abdul Anam Suhail 2002 Yemen
7 Ismail Ali Faraj Ali Bakush Abu al-Dhahab al-Khamsi 2002 Libya
8 Said Salih Said Nashir Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah 2002 Yemen
9 Tolfiq Nassar Ahmed Al Bihani 2003 Yemen
10 Omar Muhammad Ali al-Rammah Zakaria al-Baidany 2003 Yemen
11 Sanad Ali Yislam al-Kazimi Abu Malik 2004 Yemen
12 Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash Umayr, Hasan al-Dini 2004 Yemen
13 Sharqawi Abdu Ali al-Hajj Riyadh the Facilitator 2004 Yemen
14 Abd al-Salam al-Hilah 2004 Yemen
15 Guled Hassan Duran Gouleed Hassan Dourad 2006 Somalia
16 Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu Abdul Jabbar, Abu Waaafa 2007 Kenya

Held in indefinite law-of-war detention and not recommended for transfer[edit]

# Name Other name(s) Detained Country
1 Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah, Hani 2006 Palestinian Territories
2 Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi Abu Faraj al-Libi 2006 Libya
3 Muhammad Rahim Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani, Abdul Basir 2008 Afghanistan

Charged in military commissions system[edit]

# Name Other name(s) Detained Country Notes
1 Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi 2006 Saudi Arabia
2 Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh Abu Ubaydah 2006 Yemen
3 Walid Muhammad Salih bin Mubarak bin Attash Khallad 2006 Yemen
4 Abd al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Abdu al-Nashiri Abu Bilal al-Makki 2006 Saudi Arabia
5 Ali Abdul Aziz Ali Ammar al-Baluchi 2006 Pakistan
6 Encep Nurjaman Hambali, Riduan Isamuddin 2006 Indonesia
7 Mohammed Farik Bin Amin Zubair 2006 Malaysia Reached a secret plea agreement in 2023 so that Bin Amin would serve no more than six years in confinement, regardless of what sentence he received from a military jury. Sentence reduced to five years and 54 days in January 2024 as a sanction against the government because prosecutors missed deadlines to provide evidence to Bin Amin's lawyers.
8 Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep Lillie 2006 Malaysia Reached a secret plea agreement in 2023 so that Bin Lep would serve no more than six years in confinement, regardless of what sentence he received from a military jury. Sentence reduced to four years and 351 days in January 2024 as a sanction against the government because prosecutors missed deadlines to provide evidence to Bin Lep's lawyers.
9 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed KSM, Mukhtar 2006 Pakistan
10 Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al-Tamir Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Nashwan al-Tamir 2007 Iraq Awaiting sentencing in 2024 after pleading guilty to commanding insurgents in Afghanistan that killed US allied forces.

Convicted in military commissions system[edit]

# Name Other name(s) Detained Country Notes
1 Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul Abu Anas al-Makki 2002 Yemen Convicted in 2008 of conspiring with al-Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism, and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, all convictions except for conspiracy were overturned in 2013. Conspiracy conviction was upheld in 2016.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ "The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 11 December 2023. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.