The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 779 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. By July 2012 the camp held 168 captives.
On February 24, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, reported that Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Tunisian, Saleh Bin Hadi Asasi and Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad and Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al Qusin, an Egyptian, and a Libyan. The men will not be allowed to leave Albania.
On July 27, 2012, Tunisia Live asserted the five remaining Tunisian captives would be repatriated by the end of 2012.
Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo isn name arrivaldate departuredate notes 38 Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi 2002-01-11 2024-12-30 46 Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi 2002-01-20 2010-02-24 Transferred to Albania 148 Adel Ben Mabrouk 2002-02-09 2009-11-30 Transferred to Italy for criminal prosecution 168 Adel bin Ibrahim Hkiml His arrival date was not documented. 2014-12-30 Transferred to Kazakhstan 174 Hisham Sliti 2002-05-01 2014-11-20 Transferred to Slovakia 502 Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy 2002-05-01 2014-12-08 granted asylum in Uruguay 510 Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri 2002-06-08 2009-11-30 Transferred to Italy for criminal prosecution 660 Lufti Bin Swei Lagha 2002-06-14 2007-06-17 717 Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi 2002-08-05 2010-03-23 Transferred to Georgia 721 Abdullah Bin Omar 2002-08-05 2007-06-17 892 Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami 2003-02-07 2010-01-24 Transferred to Slovakia 894 Lufti Bin Ali 2003-02-07 2014-12-30 Transferred to Kazakhstan
References
External links Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians Andy Worthington