Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Algerian detainees in Guantanamo.[1] A total of 778 detainees have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002.
The camp population peaked in early 2004 at approximately 660 before numerous detainees were released. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees," have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush (2004), which said that detainees had the habeas corpus right to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal. As of January 2025, 15 detainees remain at Guantanamo.[2]
On March 3, 2008 an Algerian delegation visited Guantanamo.[3] At that time DOD reported seventeen Algerian nationals remaining in Guantanamo.
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Release negotiations
On June 23, 2008 the Algerian newspaper El Khabar quoted Farouk Ksentini, the head of Algeria's Advisory Human Rights Commission, about negotiations over the Guantanamo detainees' repatriation.[4] According to Al Khabar, Ksentini reported that the US had insisted on unacceptable conditions unacceptable to Algeria for transfer of the detainees to their country of origin. The article stated that Sandra Hodgkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, had not been telling "the entire truth".
The Department of Defense announced on July 2, 2008 that it had repatriated two Algerians.[5] The Department withheld the Algerians' identities without explanation.
On July 3, 2008 Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald reported that the two repatriated Algerians were Mustafa Hamlily and Abdul Raham Hourari.[6]
The Department of Defense announced on August 30, 2013 that it had repatriated two additional Algerians, who were identified as Nabil Hadjarab and Mutij Sayyab. This would bring the total number of remaining detainees at Guantanamo to 164.
Algerian detainees in Guantanamo
isn | name | arrival date |
departure date |
notes |
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70 | Abdul Raham Houari | 2002-02-08 | 2008-07-02 | |
175 | Hassan Mujamma Rabai Said | 2002-05-01 | 2009-01-17 |
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238 | Nabil Hadjarab | 2002-02-15 | 2013-08-29[13] |
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284 | Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir | 2002-01-21 | 2008-08-25 |
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288 | Mutij Sadiz Ahmad Sayab | 2002-01-21 | 2013-08-28 | |
290 | Ahmed Bin Saleh Bel Bacha | 2002-02-09 | 2014-03-13 |
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292 | Abdulli Feghoul | 2002-02-15 | 2008-08-25 | |
310 | Djamel Ameziane | 2002-02-12 | 2013-12-05 |
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311 | Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed | 2002-02-11 |
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533 | Hassan Zumiri | 2002-05-01 | 2010-01-20 |
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659 | Sameur Abdenour | 2002-06-16 | 2007-12-19 |
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694 | Sufyian Barhoumi | 2002-06-18 |
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703 | Ahmed bin Kadr Labed | 2002-08-05 | 2008-11-10 |
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705 | Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily | 2002-08-05 | 2008-07-02 | |
718 | Fethi Boucetta | 2002-08-05 | 2006-11-17 |
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744 | Aziz Abdul Naji | 2002-08-05 | 2010-07-20 |
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939 | Mammar Ameur | 2003-03-23 | 2008-10-06 |
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1016 | Soufian Abar Huwari | 2003-05-09 | 2008-10-06 | |
1452 | Adil Hadi bin Hamlili | 2010-01-20 |
Algerian Six
Guantanamo also contains six citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who were born in Algeria, who are known as the "Algerian Six".
Repatriation
The Department of Defense has acknowledged repatriating seven Algerians: Abdul Raham Houari, Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir, Sameur Abdenour, Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily, Fethi Boucetta, Mammar Ameur, and Soufian Abar Huwari. The Department of Defense didn't reveal the men's names.
On April 3, 2009, at the G20 Summit in Strausburg, French President Nicolai Sarkozy indicated France would offer asylum to a former Guantanamo detainee.[55][56]
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External links
- Two Algerian Torture Victims Are Freed from Guantánamo Andy Worthington 25.1.2010
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- UN experts warn against sending detainees at torture-risk
- Obama and US Courts Repatriate Algerian from Guantánamo Against His Will; May Be Complicit in Torture Andy Worthington 21.7.2010
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