Prisoners

779 prisoners have been held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Of those, 603 have been released or transferred, one was transferred to the US to be tried, and nine have died, the most recent being Adnan Latif, in September 2012.

71 of these prisoners have been released under President Obama, and although no prisoners were released for 15 months from January 2011, two Uighur prisoners (Muslims from China's Xinjiang province) were released in April 2012, another man, Ibrahim al-Qosi, who was given a two-year sentence after a plea deal in July 2010, was released in July 2012, and in September 2012, Omar Khadr, a former child prisoner, was transferred to Canada to serve the rest of the sentence he negotiated as part of plea deal in October 2010.

166 prisoners now remain in Guantánamo -- 86 of whom have been cleared for release but are still held -- and they are listed below. The identities of 56 of those cleared for release were made available in a document released by the Department of Justice in a court case in September 2012, and this information is also included. Please note that the numbers before the men’s names are their ISN numbers (the “Internment Security Numbers” by which they are identified in Guantánamo).