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Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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Andy Worthington has prepared a list of all the detainees and their current status, which he has posted on his blog. He has also prepared a list of all federal district court rulings on Guantanamo detainees' habeas corpus petitions.

Local No More Guantanamos coalitions have prepared stories and literature on the following detainees:

Abdul Ra’ouf Al Qassim

Abdul Rauf al-Qassim's wife, Rahima, and his daughter, Khiria.
Current status: 
Cleared, no charges

Mr. al-Qassim was released and sent to Albania in late February 2010.

Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Ahmed Belbacha

Current status: 
Cleared, no charges

by Andy Worthington

A former footballer, Ahmed Belbacha was born in Algiers in 1969. He left his homeland in 1999, after receiving death threats from militants because he worked for a government-run oil company, and sought asylum in the UK.

Ahmed lived and worked in Bournemouth, first at a laundry and then at the Swallow Royal Hotel, where he was responsible for cleaning John Prescott’s room during the 1999 Labour Party conference. For his diligence, he received a thank-you note from the Deputy Prime Minister and a tip for his service.

Amin al Bakri

Detained at Bagram prison with no habeas corpus right
Current status: 
Unknown

Djamel Ameziane

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Ravil Mingazov

A judge ordered Ravil's release on May 13, 2010, under the writ of habeas corpus
Current status: 
Cleared, no charges

Ravil Mingazov was born in Russia in 1967. He became a ballet dancer with several dance troupes. Conscripted into the Russian Army at the age of 19, he first served in the Army ballet troupe. After his conscription ended in 1988, he served voluntarily until 1996 and later returned to the military in the food supply section, where he took over a program that was in bad shape and transformed it into a model program, “the best in all the Army's.” In recognition of his achievement, he said that the General gave him a watch.

Saifullah Paracha

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Saifullah Paracha, 60, is a Pakistani national.  He traveled to the US to study when he was 26 years old and remained there with his family for approximately 10 years before returning to Pakistan to set up an export business.

Paracha was scheduled to fly to Thailand for a business meeting on in July 2003, but when he arrived at the Bangkok airport on July 6, he was seized, hooded, and cuffed, thrown into the back of a vehicle and taken to an unknown location where he was held for a few days, blindfolded, with his ears covered and his hands and legs cuffed.

Sharifullah

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Sharifullah is among 12 Guantánamo prisoners whom the Obama administration repatriated on December 20.  Read the article, US sends 12 Gitmo detainees to their home nations.