Guantánamo Fact Sheet
- 6.5 x 8 feet – approximate size of cell in Guantánamo
- 2190 – number of days that the longest held detainees have been at Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial as of January 11, 2008
- 275 – approximate number of people in custody at Guantánamo Bay as of December 28, 2007.(1)
- 145- number of members of the House of Representatives who signed a letter to President Bush in June 2007 urging him to close Guantánamo and move the detainees to military prisons in the United States(2)
- 15 – number of “high value detainees” held at Guantánamo(3)
- 13 – age of Mohammed Ismail Agha when taken into US custody in Afghanistan in late 2002 before later being transferred to Guantánamo(4)
- 10 – number of people in Guantánamo who have ever been charged with any crime
- 3- number of pending cases(5)
- 2 – cases thrown out by a Military Judge(6)
- 1 – prisoner conviction by guilty plea (7)
Attempted Suicide(8) - 350 – incidents of self-harm in Guantánamo Bay in 2003
- 120 – incidents were “hanging gestures” in 2003
- 110 – incidents of harm/suicide were reported for 2005
- 41 – number of prisoners whose self-harm incidents were labeled “attempted suicide” by the US since January 2002(9)
- 23 – number of prisoners that tried to hang or strangle themselves in August 2003
- 21– number of the 23 prisoners whose attempts were written off as “attention-getting” gestures
- 2 – number of the 23 prisoners classified as attempting suicide.
- 4 – number of prisoners who died in detention of apparent suicides at Guantánamo Bay (10)
Detained without Adequate Proof(11) - 53% – percent of detainees not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States(12)
- 40% – percent of detainees who have no definitive connection with Al Qaeda
- 18% – percent of detainees who have no definitive connection with Al Qaeda or Taliban
- 8% – percent of detainees characterized as Al Qaeda fighters
Bought Detainees(13)
At the time when the United States offered large bounties for capture of suspected enemies: - 86% – detainees were not detained on the battle field but were instead arrested by either Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and turned over to United States custody
- 66% – detainees were captured by Pakistani authorities
- 20% – detainees were captured by the Northern Alliance/Afghan authorities
- 8% – detainees were captured by the US authorities
- 3% – detainees were captured by other coalition forces
Habeas Corpus(14) - Roughly 300- number of habeas corpus petitions filed in federal courts on behalf of detainees
- January 2002- month of first habeas corpus petition filed to challenge detention at Guantánamo
Cost(15) - About $54 million- cost of building Guantánamo high- security detention facilities
- $90 million to $118- estimated annual cost of operating Guantánamo
- $10-12 million- cost of “expeditionary legal complex” for the military commission (under construction)
- Number of bills in Congress calling for the closing of Guantánamo: 3
(1) “Detainee Transfer Announced,” http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11591
(2) Bowker, David, and David Kaye. “Guantanamo by the Numbers,” The New York Times, 12 November 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/opinion/10kayeintro.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
(3) “Administrative Tribunals to Begin for High-Value Guantanamo Detainees,” Defenselink, 6 March 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=3283
(4) Constable, Pamela, “An Afghan Boy’s Life in US Custody,” The Washington Post, 12 February 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A33696-2004Feb11¬Found=true
(5) New York Times. Supra note 2.
(6) “Guantanamo pair's charges dropped,” BBC News, 5 June 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6720315.stm
(7) “Guilty plea from detainee Hicks,” BBC News, 27 March 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6494281.stm
(8) New York Times. Supra note 1.
(9) New York Times. Supra note 1.
(10) “Guantanamo 'suicide' inmate named” BBC News, June 1, 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6710505.stm
(11)Results based on CSRT report data extracted by Seton Hall University study. http://law.shu.edu/news/guantanamo_report_final_2_08_06.pdf
(12) New York Times. Supra note 2
(13) Results based on CSRT report data extracted by Seton Hall University study. http://law.shu.edu/news/guantanamo_report_final_2_08_06.pdf
(14)New York Times. Supra note 2
(15) Ibid.
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