List of juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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Juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp numbered fifteen, according to a 2011 study by the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California Davis. [1] The U.S. State Department had publicly acknowledged twelve. [2] The US Department of Defense defined minors at Guantanamo as those below the age of 16, whereas they are defined as below the age of 18 in international law. Three juveniles aged below 16 were held in Camp Iguana, but others between 16 and 18 were put into the general population and treated as adults. These included Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was 15 when captured and one of the youngest detainees, 16 when transported to Guantanamo.

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May 2008 report to the United Nations

On May 15, 2008 the American Civil Liberties Union published a report that the George W. Bush administration had submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. [3] The report stated that the USA had apprehended 2500 juveniles, 2400 of them in Iraq. It said that a total of ten juveniles had been held in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility in Afghanistan and that eight juveniles had been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps. [4] [5] [6] [7]

List of known juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Department of Defense documents acknowledge that at least fifteen children were at one time imprisoned at Guantanamo: [2]

NameISNDate of birthTransferred to GuantanamoAge in years at transfer
Mohammed Ismail 930-- -- 8807 Feb 0213 - 14
Assad Ullah 912-- -- 88-- Dec 0213 - 14
Naqib Ullah 913-- -- 88-- Jan 0314 - 15
Mohammed el Gharani 269-- -- 8609 Feb 0215 - 16
Mohammed Omar 540-- -- 8611 Jun 0215 - 16
Shams Ullah 783-- -- 8627 Oct 0215 - 16
Omar Ahmed Khadr 76619 Sep 8627 Oct 0216
Yussef Mohammed Mubarak al Shihri 11408 Sep 8516 Jan 0216
Abdul Samad 911-- -- 8606 Feb 0316 - 17
Abdul Qudus 929-- -- 8607 Feb 0316 - 17
Ibrahim Umar al Umar 585-- -- 8515 Jun 0216 - 17
Abdul Salam Ghetan (al Shehri) 13214 Dec 8420 Jan 0217
Yasser Talal Al Zahrani 09322 Sep 8420 Jan 0217
Khalil Rahman Hafez (Hafez K. Rahman) 30120 Feb 8407 Feb 0217
'Abd al Razaq (Abdullah Razzaq) 06718 Jan 8417 Jan 0217

In addition, the UC Davis report lists six detainees who might have been 17 at the time of transfer to Guantanamo: [2]

NameISNDate of birthTransferred to GuantanamoAge in years at transfer
Mohamed Jawad 900-- -- 8506 Feb 0317 - 18
Qari Esmhatulla 591-- -- 8410 Jun 0217 - 18
Sajin Urayman 545-- -- 8413 Jun 0217 - 18
Faris Muslim al Ansari 253-- -- 8417 Jun 0217 - 18
Peta Muhammed 908-- -- 8405 Aug 0217 - 18
Mahbub Rahman 1052-- -- 8521 Nov 0317 - 18

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Notes

  1. ↑ "More youth at Guantánamo than U.S. claimed". UC Davis News Service. June 7, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Guantanamo's Children: The Wikileaked Testimonies". UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. Archived from the original on 2011-11-13. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ Walter Pincus (May 15, 2008). "U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants". Washington Post . p. A11. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  4. ↑ Frank Jordans (May 22, 2008). "US to review Gitmo juvenile numbers". Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  5. ↑ "U.S. criticized for handling of child detainees in Iraq". CNN. May 21, 2008. Archived from the original on August 8, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  6. ↑ Lisa Schlein (May 21, 2008). "US Defends Policy Of Detention For Juveniles in Iraq, Afghanistan". Voice of America. Archived from the original on May 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  7. ↑ Frank Jordans (May 21, 2008). "Group criticizes US military for child detentions". Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
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