The United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 hold a total of nine British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
An additional nine detainees were citizens of other nations who had been granted permanent residency status.
A total of 778 suspects have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 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 the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned...

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All the British citizens have been repatriated.

Shaker Aamer

Shaker Aamer

Shaker Aamer is a Saudi Arabian citizen and the last British resident currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was arrested in Afghanistan in January 2002 and as of today, Aamer has been held at Guantánamo for...

 is the last British resident held in Guantánamo Bay.

British citizens held at Guantanamo Bay

isn	name	notes
24	Feroz Abbasi Feroz Abbasi Feroz Abbasi is one of nine British men who were held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was released from detention on 25 January 2005 along with Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar, the other five having previously been...	CSRT highly acrimonious. Tribunal told him International law did not apply to him. Released
86	Shafiq Rasul Shafiq Rasul Shafiq Rasul is best known for being a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay by the United States, which treated him an unlawful combatant. His detainee ID number was 86....	Released. Rasul v. Bush Rasul v. Bush Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned...  heard by SCOTUS Alleged abuse.
87	Asif Iqbal Asif Iqbal (Guantanamo detainee 87) Asif Iqbal in West Bromwich, is a British citizen who was held, in extrajudicial detention, as a terror suspect in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.-Background:...	Released. Alleged abuse.
110	Ruhal Ahmed Ruhal Ahmed Ruhal Ahmed is a British citizen. He was detained without trial for over two years by the United States government, first in Afghanistan, and then in Camp Delta, the United States prison for people it describes as suspects in its "War on Terror", at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Cuba...	Released. Alleged abuse.
490	Jamal Malik Al Harith
558	Moazzam Begg Moazzam Begg Moazzam Begg , is a British Pakistani Muslim who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, by the U.S...	Moazzam Begg wrote a book about his detention, entitled "Enemy Combatant (book) Enemy Combatant (book) Enemy Combatant is the title of a book written by a British Muslim, Moazzam Begg, and co-written by Victoria Brittain, a former Associate Foreign Editor for the Guardian newspaper, about Begg's detention by the government of the United States of America in Camp Echo, Guantanamo Bay... ". Wrote a book: "Enemy Combatant Enemy Combatant (book) Enemy Combatant is the title of a book written by a British Muslim, Moazzam Begg, and co-written by Victoria Brittain, a former Associate Foreign Editor for the Guardian newspaper, about Begg's detention by the government of the United States of America in Camp Echo, Guantanamo Bay... " following his repatriation.
701	Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba, also known as Anthony Kiyemba, is a Ugandan citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, on suspicion of being a terrorist.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 701....	Joint citizen of the UK and Uganda Uganda Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by... .
817	Richard Dean Belmar	Released.
10007	Martin Mubanga Martin Mubanga Martin Mubanga is a joint citizen of both the United Kingdom and Zambia. He was held, without charge, and interrogated at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay for 33 months....

External links

• Guantánamo Bay files: Profiles of the 10 released British prisoners, Ian Cobain, The Guardian, April 25, 2011