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
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.
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.

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.