{"id":49965,"date":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/supreme\/legal-commentary\/a-guantanamo-index.html"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","slug":"a-guantanamo-index","status":"publish","type":"supreme","link":"https:\/\/supreme.findlaw.com\/legal-commentary\/a-guantanamo-index.html","title":{"rendered":"A Guantanamo Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Guantanamo Index<\/h1><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n

By JOANNE MARINER<\/h2><\/a><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n

Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2007<\/td>\n\n <\/tr>\n <\/table>\n

Year in which Cuba signed a perpetual lease giving the United States “complete jurisdiction and control” over the Guantanamo Bay naval station: 1903<\/p>

Number of days that the longest-held detainees have, to date, been held without charge at Guantanamo: 2,127<\/p> \n\n

Number of people who have been held in military detention at Guantanamo: 778<\/p>

Number of people currently held at Guantanamo: approximately 320<\/p>

Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent back to their home countries: nearly 450<\/p>

Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent to Albania: 8<\/p>

Number of Uighurs (members of an ethnic minority from Western China) who were sent from Guantanamo to Albania: 5<\/p>

Number of other people in Albania who speak the Uighur language: 0<\/p>

Age of the oldest prisoner ever held in military custody at Guantanamo: approximately 75-78 (As he put it, “How could I be an enemy combatant if I was not able to stand up?”)<\/p> \n

Age of the youngest prisoner ever held in military custody at Guantanamo: 13<\/p>

Number of juveniles previously held at Guantanamo: at least 6<\/p>

Number of apparent suicides at Guantanamo: 4<\/p>

Number of attempted suicides at Guantanamo: many dozens<\/p>

Percentage of Guantanamo detainees reportedly taking antidepressants such as Prozac: 20 <\/p>

Number of countries in which Guantanamo detainees were arrested: at least 17<\/p>

Number of countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 43<\/p>

Number of Western countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 9<\/p>

Number of Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: 1<\/p>

Number of non-Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: nearly 30<\/p>

Number of “high value” detainees currently held at Guantanamo: 15<\/p>

Number of detainees, in addition to the 15 “high value” suspects, whom the New York Times<\/i> reported in 2004 were closely linked to al Qaeda: two dozen<\/p>

Number of detainees whom the U.S. alleges conspired in the September 11 terrorist attacks: 5<\/p>

Number of people who were held at Guantanamo who the U.S. admitted were not “enemy combatants”: 38<\/p>

Bounty that the U.S. government paid to Afghan warlords and Pakistani police for turning over people that they claimed were linked to the Taliban or Al Qaeda: $5,000<\/p>

Percentage of detainees who were arrested by Afghan or Pakistani forces, and then handed over to U.S. forces (of those for whom arrest information is known): 86<\/p>

Percentage of detainees not alleged to have committed a hostile act against the United States: at least 55<\/p>

Number of farmers, aid workers, missionaries, and refugees who were entirely unconnected to terrorism or armed conflict, but who were arbitrarily arrested and wrongly held at Guantanamo: unknown, but undoubtedly hundreds<\/p>

Number of Guantanamo detainees whom a U.S. court has ordered to be released: 0<\/p>

Number of Guantanamo detainees who, at some point during their detention, have been charged with a crime: 12<\/p>

Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime: 1<\/p>

Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime after a full trial: 0<\/p>

Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books about their experience in U.S. custody: 8<\/p>

Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books describing abuses in U.S. custody: 8<\/p>

Number of hours, according to a Boston FBI agent who witnessed the incidents and complained about them, that two Guantanamo detainees were left chained in a fetal position, so that they had urinated and defecated on themselves: between 18 to 24<\/p>

Number of medical experts who signed a 2006 letter urging the United States to stop force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo and to close down the prison: 250<\/p>

Percentage of people in 26 countries surveyed in a 2006 BBC poll who said that they disapprove of Guantanamo prison and of U.S. treatment of detainees: 69<\/p>

Number of independent human rights experts with U.N. mandates who have been barred from interviewing detainees at Guantanamo: 6<\/p>

Number of family members who have been allowed to visit their detained relatives at Guantanamo: 0<\/p>

Amount that former Guantanamo detainees are compensated for the years of their life spent in detention: 0<\/p>

Chances that a former Guantanamo detainee will ever be compensated for the years of his life spent in detention: practically zero<\/p>

Cost (in millions of dollars) of Camp 6, the newest prison at Guantanamo, which opened in December 2007: 38<\/p>

Approximate annual cost (in millions of dollars) of running Guantanamo, not including military salaries: 100<\/p>

Odds that the next president of the United States will inherit the mess at Guantanamo: 9 out of 10<\/p> \n\n\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n<\/a>\nJoanne Mariner is a lawyer with Human Rights Watch in New York. Her articles on Guantanamo can be found in FindLaw’s archive. \n

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