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List of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp Yemeni detainees
Company typeDetainment group
IndustryDetention
Founded2002
Headquarters
Guantanamo Bay
,
United States
Area served
Yemen, United States

The United States has detained 115 Yemeni nationals at Guantanamo Bay, with forty-two having been relocated elsewhere. Only Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia had a higher number of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. By January 2008, Yemenis constituted the largest single nationality group among detainees.

As of November 2015, recommendations were made to transfer 44 Yemenis, while 23 continued to be held indefinitely without any transfer recommendation.[1] Among them, only Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was convicted by a military tribunal; although two convictions were overturned on appeal, his conspiracy conviction was reinstated in 2016 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.[2] Additionally, two Yemenis, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Walid Bin Attash, remain awaiting military commission trials.

Events

Shortly after Guantanamo Bay's opening in January 2002, Yemeni officials made visits to the facility.[3]

On March 12, 2008, Mark Falkoff from the Center for Constitutional Rights called for the repatriation of Yemeni detainees, highlighting that 95 Yemenis—over one-third of all detainees—were still held. The delay was primarily due to unresolved security agreements between the U.S. and Yemen following repatriation. By contrast, nearly all 133 Saudi detainees in Guantanamo had been returned by 2007.

Effect of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged bombing attempt

On December 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Nigeria, who has maternal links to Yemen,[4] allegedly tried to carry out a suicide bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. By December 27, with reports indicating he received training in Yemen, U.S. lawmakers such as Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King, and Bennie Thompson urged President Barack Obama to halt all repatriations of Yemeni detainees.[5][6][7][8][9]

Negotiations on repatriation

An article published by Yemen Post on November 13, 2012, revealed confidential terms involved in negotiations between the United States and Yemen regarding detainee repatriation.

Repatriated detainees

Several Yemeni detainees who were returned faced prosecution and trials within Yemen's specialized Criminal Court for Terrorism. On June 7, 2008, reports surfaced about advanced stages of negotiation for repatriating approximately seventy detainees; some had been permitted their first phone calls with family members.

List of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo

ISN Name Arrival
date		 Departure
date		 Notes Transfer
recommendation
status
00026 Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi 2002-01-11 2016-01-13 relocated to Oman recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00027 Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman 2002-12-11 granted habeas corpus relief recommended for continued detention by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00028 Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi 2002-01-17 recommended for continued detention by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00029 Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi 2002-01-16 2017-01-16 transferred to Oman recommended for continued detention by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00030 Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi 2002-01-16 2016-04-16 sent to Saudi Arabia recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00031 Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid 2002-01-12 2016-08-15 transferred to the United Arab Emirates recommended for transfer by a Periodic Review Board during the 2010s
00032 Faruq Ali Ahmed 2002-01-11 2009-12-19 transferredTemplate:Where
00033 Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah 2002-01-17 2016-08-15 relocated to the United Arab Emirates recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00034 Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi 2002-01-17 2015-01-14 transferred to Oman recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00035 Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris 2002-06-08 2015-06-13 sent to Oman recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00036 Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris 2002-01-11 2013-12-18 recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
00037 Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab 2002-01-11 2016-06-22 granted asylum in MontenegroTemplate:Fix/category[citation needed] recommended for transfer by aPeriodic Review Board in 2014
00039 Ali Hamza Ahmed Suleiman Al Bahlul 2002-01-11 currently serving sentence at Guantanamo
00040 Abdel Qadir Hussein Al Mudhaffari 2002-01-14 2016-08-15 transferred to the United Arab Emirates recommended for transfer by the 2010 Guantanamo Review Task Force
... (table continues with similar entries, trimmed for brevity) ...

See also

References

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External links

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Yemen nationals". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Oct20WashPo
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named YemenTimes20020203
  4. ↑ Nigerian in aircraft attack linked to London mosque, independent.co.uk. Accessed 16 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named FoxNews2009-12-27
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named WallStreetJournal2009-12-27SudeepReddy
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named HuffPost2009-12-27
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Upi2009-12-27
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Josh Gerstein (2009-12-27). "Bomb plot complicates plans for Gitmo closure". Politico.
  10. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (2017-01-16). "Mistaken identity victims among the 10 transferred from Guantánamo to Oman". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. The Pentagon's statement did not clarify why the Department of Defense delayed over a day after Oman declared it had accepted them as "temporary" residents "in consideration to their humanitarian situation."
  11. ↑ Charlie Savage (2017-01-05). "Four Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo transferred to Saudi Arabia". New York Times. Washington DC. Retrieved 2017-01-05. The Pentagon announced the relocation of four Yemeni detainees from Guantánamo to Saudi Arabia, initiating a series of transfers during the final days of the Obama administration.
  12. ↑ Charlie Savage (2016-12-04). "Guantánamo detainee relocated to Cape Verde in first transfer since Trump's election". New York Times. Retrieved 2016-12-04. Mr. Balzuhair became the second detainee resettled by Cape Verde, following a low-level Syrian detainee in 2010.
  13. ↑ "US transfers nine Yemeni Guantanamo inmates to Saudi Arabia". Al Jazeera. 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-04-17. Nine Yemeni men were moved from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia by the U.S., including one individual who had been on hunger strike since 2007.
  14. ↑ Steve Almasy, Tom Kludt (2016-04-16). "Nine detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia". CNN. Retrieved 2016-04-17. The transfer took place prior to President Obama's scheduled visit to Saudi Arabia.
  15. ↑ "IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Release No: NR-235-15, June 13, 2015, Announcement of Detainee Transfer". United States Department of Defense. 2015-06-13. Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. The United States expressed gratitude to Oman for its humanitarian assistance and collaboration in efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
  16. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (2015-11-16). "Five Guantánamo detainees sent to United Arab Emirates by U.S." Miami Herald. Due to tighter Congressional restrictions on transfers, five Yemenis without criminal charges were resettled in the UAE.
  17. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (2016-07-10). "Guantánamo population declines further — Yemeni detainee relocated to Italy for resettlement". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-10. A Yemeni detainee was transferred to Italy, lowering Guantánamo's population below eighty.
  18. ↑ "Montenegro accepts another individual under humanitarian prisoner re-socialisation program from Guantanamo". Government of Montenegro. 2016-06-22.
  19. ↑ Camila Domonoske (2016-08-16). "Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred to United Arab Emirates". National Public Radio.
  20. ↑ Margot Williams. "Guantanamo timeline for 2015". The New York Times.
  21. ↑ Margot Williams (18 May 2021). "Guantanamo timeline for 2016". The New York Times.
  22. ↑ Charlie Savage (2016-01-14). "Guantánamo population falls to 93 after ten prisoners moved to Oman". The New York Times.
  23. ↑ "Five Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo sent to Oman and Estonia". BBC News. 2015-01-14.

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