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A Guantanamo Index
By JOANNE MARINER
Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2007
Year in which Cuba signed a perpetual lease giving the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" over the Guantanamo Bay naval station: 1903
Number of days that the longest-held detainees have, to date, been held without charge at Guantanamo: 2,127
Number of people who have been held in military detention at Guantanamo: 778
Number of people currently held at Guantanamo: approximately 320
Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent back to their home countries: nearly 450
Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent to Albania: 8
Number of Uighurs (members of an ethnic minority from Western China) who were sent from Guantanamo to Albania: 5
Number of other people in Albania who speak the Uighur language: 0
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?")
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Age of the youngest prisoner ever held in military custody at Guantanamo: 13
Number of juveniles previously held at Guantanamo: at least 6
Number of apparent suicides at Guantanamo: 4
Number of attempted suicides at Guantanamo: many dozens
Percentage of Guantanamo detainees reportedly taking antidepressants such as Prozac: 20
Number of countries in which Guantanamo detainees were arrested: at least 17
Number of countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 43
Number of Western countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 9
Number of Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: 1
Number of non-Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: nearly 30
Number of "high value" detainees currently held at Guantanamo: 15
Number of detainees, in addition to the 15 "high value" suspects, whom the New York Times reported in 2004 were closely linked to al Qaeda: two dozen
Number of detainees whom the U.S. alleges conspired in the September 11 terrorist attacks: 5
Number of people who were held at Guantanamo who the U.S. admitted were not "enemy combatants": 38
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
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
Percentage of detainees not alleged to have committed a hostile act against the United States: at least 55
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
Number of Guantanamo detainees whom a U.S. court has ordered to be released: 0
Number of Guantanamo detainees who, at some point during their detention, have been charged with a crime: 12
Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime: 1
Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime after a full trial: 0
Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books about their experience in U.S. custody: 8
Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books describing abuses in U.S. custody: 8
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
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
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
Number of independent human rights experts with U.N. mandates who have been barred from interviewing detainees at Guantanamo: 6
Number of family members who have been allowed to visit their detained relatives at Guantanamo: 0
Amount that former Guantanamo detainees are compensated for the years of their life spent in detention: 0
Chances that a former Guantanamo detainee will ever be compensated for the years of his life spent in detention: practically zero
Cost (in millions of dollars) of Camp 6, the newest prison at Guantanamo, which opened in December 2007: 38
Approximate annual cost (in millions of dollars) of running Guantanamo, not including military salaries: 100
Odds that the next president of the United States will inherit the mess at Guantanamo: 9 out of 10
Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2007
Year in which Cuba signed a perpetual lease giving the United States "complete jurisdiction and control" over the Guantanamo Bay naval station: 1903
Number of days that the longest-held detainees have, to date, been held without charge at Guantanamo: 2,127
Number of people who have been held in military detention at Guantanamo: 778
Number of people currently held at Guantanamo: approximately 320
Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent back to their home countries: nearly 450
Number of Guantanamo detainees who were sent to Albania: 8
Number of Uighurs (members of an ethnic minority from Western China) who were sent from Guantanamo to Albania: 5
Number of other people in Albania who speak the Uighur language: 0
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?")
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Age of the youngest prisoner ever held in military custody at Guantanamo: 13
Number of juveniles previously held at Guantanamo: at least 6
Number of apparent suicides at Guantanamo: 4
Number of attempted suicides at Guantanamo: many dozens
Percentage of Guantanamo detainees reportedly taking antidepressants such as Prozac: 20
Number of countries in which Guantanamo detainees were arrested: at least 17
Number of countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 43
Number of Western countries whose nationals have been held at Guantanamo: 9
Number of Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: 1
Number of non-Western countries whose nationals remain at Guantanamo: nearly 30
Number of "high value" detainees currently held at Guantanamo: 15
Number of detainees, in addition to the 15 "high value" suspects, whom the New York Times reported in 2004 were closely linked to al Qaeda: two dozen
Number of detainees whom the U.S. alleges conspired in the September 11 terrorist attacks: 5
Number of people who were held at Guantanamo who the U.S. admitted were not "enemy combatants": 38
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
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
Percentage of detainees not alleged to have committed a hostile act against the United States: at least 55
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
Number of Guantanamo detainees whom a U.S. court has ordered to be released: 0
Number of Guantanamo detainees who, at some point during their detention, have been charged with a crime: 12
Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime: 1
Number of detainees who have been convicted of a crime after a full trial: 0
Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books about their experience in U.S. custody: 8
Number of former Guantanamo detainees who have written books describing abuses in U.S. custody: 8
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
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
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
Number of independent human rights experts with U.N. mandates who have been barred from interviewing detainees at Guantanamo: 6
Number of family members who have been allowed to visit their detained relatives at Guantanamo: 0
Amount that former Guantanamo detainees are compensated for the years of their life spent in detention: 0
Chances that a former Guantanamo detainee will ever be compensated for the years of his life spent in detention: practically zero
Cost (in millions of dollars) of Camp 6, the newest prison at Guantanamo, which opened in December 2007: 38
Approximate annual cost (in millions of dollars) of running Guantanamo, not including military salaries: 100
Odds that the next president of the United States will inherit the mess at Guantanamo: 9 out of 10
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