List of Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Algerian detainees in Guantanamo.However an Algerian government press release, on August 21, 2016, said that they had been tracking 28 Algerian captives. Both US and Algerian governments agreed just two captives remained in US custody. A total of 778 detainees have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. On March 3, 2008 an Algerian delegation visited Guantanamo. At that time DOD reported seventeen Algerian nationals remaining in Guantanamo.

List of Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Algerian detainees in Guantanamo.However an Algerian government press release, on August 21, 2016, said that they had been tracking 28 Algerian captives. Both US and Algerian governments agreed just two captives remained in US custody. A total of 778 detainees have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. On March 3, 2008 an Algerian delegation visited Guantanamo. At that time DOD reported seventeen Algerian nationals remaining in Guantanamo.