Guantanamo under President Obama: the numbers

The prison at Guantanamo Bay is still open and a US Task Force report has now provided some public figures, below, on the number and status of prisoners there.  Reprieve is still urgently seeking a home for Ahmed Belbacha (right) who has elected to stay in the prison rather than return to persecution in his native Algeria.

240 - files reviewed 

126 - total number of prisoners approved for transfer out of the prison

59  - transferred 

181-  men still at Guantanamo

30 - Yemenis approved for 'conditional detention' - meaning that they can be transferred if one of three specified conditions is met

48 - prisoners approved for indefinite detention

36 - prisoners are subjects of active cases or investigation

Yemeni prisoner numbers (subset of above):

90 - still at Guantanamo

29 - approved for transfer

30 - approved for 'conditional detention'

26 - approved for indefinite detention

5 -  subjects of active cases or investigation

90 - Yemenis still at Guantanamo