TheUnited States Department of Defense held a total of nineBritish detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. An additional nine detainees were citizens of other nations who had been granted permanent residency status in the United Kingdom.
A total of 778 suspects have been held in theGuantanamo Bay detention camps, inCuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since theUnited States Supreme Court's ruling inRasul v. Bush. As of January 6, 2025[update], 15 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay.[1]
Five British citizens were repatriated in March 2004, including friends known as theTipton Three, prior to the start of theCombatant Status Review Tribunals.Shafiq Rasul had been party to a major court challenge under ahabeas corpus petition challenging his detention. InRasul v. Bush (2004), the US Supreme Court ruled that detainees had the right to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, one of the first of several landmark cases related to operations at Guantanamo.
All British citizens and residents have been repatriated from Guantanamo.Shaker Aamer was the last British resident to be released, landing on British soil on October 30, 2015.[2]
| isn | name | notes |
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| 24 |
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| 86 | Shafiq Rasul |
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| 87 | Asif Iqbal | |
| 110 | Ruhal Ahmed | |
| 490 | Jamal Udeen Al-Harith | |
| 534 | Tarek Dergoul | |
| 558 | Moazzam Begg |
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| 701 | Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba |
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| 817 | Richard Dean Belmar |
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| 10007 | Martin Mubanga |
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