The United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 acknowledges holding eight Egyptian detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention

Extrajudicial detention

Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...

 in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 since the camps opened on January 11, 2002
The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned...

. As of February 24, 2010, the camp population stood at 188.

On February 24, 2010, Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist, currently with the McClatchy News Service.Rosenberg works at the Miami Herald, which has provided extensive coverage of the operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.-Biography:...

, of the Miami Herald, reported that Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

 accepted the transfer of three former captives, an Egyptian, Sharif Fati Ali al Mishad

Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad

Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad also known as Sherif el Mashadis a citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 190....

, and Saleh Bin Hadi Asasi and Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al Qusin, a Tunisian and a Libyan

Libyan captives in Guantanamo

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo.A total of 778 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...

.
The men will not be allowed to leave Albania.

Egyptian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

isn	name	notes
190	Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad Sharif Fati Ali Al Mishad also known as Sherif el Mashadis a citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 190....	Reportedly, harsh conditions in Guantanamo have left him with slurred speech.
287	Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a seven page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.-Allegations as read aloud during his Tribunal:...	Became a paraplegic in Guantanamo—reports it was due to an unprovoked beating in the prison hospital. Left Egypt after criticizing its government for being anti-democratic, when his passport expired the only place left for him to live was Afghanistan. Three writs of habeas corpus Habeas corpus is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...  were submitted on his behalf—but none of them were published when the Department of Defense published 179 other habeas petitions. Determined not to have been an enemy combatant, after all. According to the official list of release dates he left Guantanamo on September 30, 2005.
369	Adel al-Gazzar	Was captured while having a wound from the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan treated. Was injured during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, and had his leg amputated above the knee by Guantanamo medical staff. Had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf.
535	Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah is a citizen of Bosnia currently held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.As of October 22, 2010, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah has been held at Guantanamo for eight years five months...	Originally from Egypt, acknowledged volunteering to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s.
661	Mamdouh Habib Mamdouh Habib Mamdouh Habib is an Egyptian born Australian Muslim best known for his extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, on suspicion of involvement in terrorism....	An Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... n who was born in Egypt. Spent several years in Egyptian custody, where he reports he was tortured. He was transferred to Australia on Jan. 27, 2005.
663	Fael Roda Al-Waleeli	According to the BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... he was still in Guantanamo on November 19, 2004—four months into the CSR Tribunal process. But there is no record that a Tribunal was convened for him. On March 28, 2008 the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that Fael had been transferred from Guantanamo "three years earlier", but that they had been unable to find out any reliable information about what happened to him after his transfer. On November 26, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of the dates when captives departed from Guantanamo. According to that list he was repatriated on July 1, 2003.
716	Allah Muhammed Saleem Allah Muhammed Saleem On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a Summarized transcript from over 300 Tribunals.Saleem's transcript was not published on March 3, 2006. A three page summarized transcript from the unclassified session of his Tribunal was published...	Determined not to have been an enemy combatants after all. Released to Albania Albania Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea... , on January 7, 2007, where he has applied for asylum. According to the official list of release dates he left Guantanamo on November 17, 2006.