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As of January 19, 2017, 41 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay, according to the U.S. government.
This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official documents, the US Department of Defense (DoD) continues to make intermittent efforts to redact prisoner's names, and has not published an official list of detainees (As of September 2005). On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names in what appears to be a fax or other scanned image. Associated Press published the list in more accessible text form.
The Washington Post maintains a list of the prisoners known or suspected to have been held in Guantánamo Bay.
The United States has long maintained camps at Guantánamo Bay for attempted illegal immigrants captured while trying to get to the United States, usually from Cuba, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic. This statement seems incorrect since none of the detainees countries are listed as Cuba, Haiti, or Dominican Republic.
On March 3, 2006 the DoD partially complied with a court order to release the names of the remaining Guantánamo detainees. The court order required the DoD to release the names of all the detainees. Initially, the DoD released only 317 names. On April 19, 2006, the DoD released a list with 558 names.
Although justice Jed Rakoff had already dismissed this argument, Pentagon spokesmen Bryan Whitman justified withholding the names out of a concern for the detainees' privacy.
On April 20, 2006 the DoD released a portable document format file that listed 558 names. The 558 individuals on the list were those whose detention had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT). The list gave the detainee's ID number, their name, and their home country.
The names of several hundred prisoners who had been released prior to the commencement of the CSRTs were not released. The list did not specify whether the prisoners were still in detention at Guantanamo; whether they had been determined to be "enemy combatants"; whether they were released, or repatriated to the custody of their home countries.
On May 15, 2006, the DOD released what they called a complete list of all 759 former and current inmates who had been held in military custody in the detainment camps after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action was filed by the Associated Press.
On June 17, 2013, the Miami Herald published a list, obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, of 48 prisoners who were designated for indefinite detainment. On 31 May 2014 the US government was reported to have swapped 5 prisoners - Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Nori, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mohammed Nabi and Mohammed Fazi in return for US soldier Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
On January 16, 2017, the U.S. government announced that ten more prisoners were released to Oman, leaving about 45 detainees.
Of all prisoners at Guantanamo, Afghans were the largest group (29 percent), followed by Saudi Arabians (17 percent), Yemenis (15 percent), Pakistanis (9 percent), and Algerians (3 percent). Overall, 50 nationalities were present at Guantanamo.
The list
775 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining.
Individuals with "SAMWL" are listed on the Saudi Arabian most wanted list, released in February 2009.
Details about six deaths reported as suicides and reports of attempted suicides is at Guantanamo suicide attempts.