According to the UC Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

 Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, fifteen juveniles spent time as prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp — three more than the U.S. State Department had publicly acknowledged.

Three children who had been detained with adults, and treated and interrogated as if they were adults, at the Bagram Collection Point were provided with more humane conditions at Camp Iguana

Camp Iguana

Camp Iguana is a small compound in the detainment camp complex on the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Camp Iguana originally held three child detainees who camp spokesmen then claimed were the only detainees under age 16. It was closed in the winter of 2004 when the three were sent home...

. But half a dozen teenagers who should have been considered minors even by the DoD's more stringent standards were not only detained with adults, and not provided with schooling, but reported being punished by long periods in isolation and subjected to abusive interrogation.

May 2008 report to the United Nations

On May 15, 2008 the American Civil Liberties Union

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 published a report that the Bush

George W. Bush

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 Presidency had submitted to the United Nations

United Nations

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 Committee on the Rights of the Child. The report stated that the USA had apprehended 2500 juveniles—2400 of them in Iraq

Iraq

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. The report stated that a total of ten juveniles had been held in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility. The report stated that a total of eight juveniles had been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.

Sandra Hodgkinson

Sandra Hodgkinson

Sandra Hodgkinson is an American lawyer, officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and a U.S. Government career employee.She was selected by the Bush Administration to serve as the State Department's Deputy Director, Office of War Crimes Issues...

 the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs is a political appointment created by United States President George W. Bush. The appointee has responsibility for captives apprehended during the "war on terror"....

 defended the report, claiming "...the lower figure was based on the best information in U.S. databases."

List of known juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps

Department of Defense documents acknowledge fifteen children were at one time imprisoned at Guantanamo:

Name	ISN	Date of birth	Transferred to Guantanamo	Age in years at transfer
Mohammmed Ismail Muhammad Ismail Agha Muhammad Ismail Agha is an Afghan national who at age 13 was arrested by Afghan militia soldiers, who transferred him to U.S. forces in December 2002....	930	-- -- 88	07 Feb 02	13 - 14
Assad Ullah	912	-- -- 88	-- Dec 02	13 - 14
Naqib Ullah	913	-- -- 88	-- Jan 03	14 - 15
Muhammed Hamid al Qarani	269	-- -- 86	09 Feb 02	15 - 16
Mohammed Omar	540	-- -- 86	11 Jun 02	15 - 16
Shams Ullah Shams Ullah \Shams Ullah is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....	783	-- -- 86	27 Oct 02	15 - 16
Omar Ahmed Khadr Omar Khadr Omar Ahmed Khadr is a Canadian child soldier and one of the juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He was convicted of five charges under the United States Military Commissions Act of 2009 including murder in violation of the law of war and providing material support for terrorism,...	766	19 Sep 86	27 Oct 02	16
Yussef Mohammed Mubarak al Shihri	114	08 Sep 85	16 Jan 02	16
Abdul Samad	911	-- -- 86	06 Feb 03	16 - 17
Abdul Qudus	929	-- -- 86	07 Feb 03	16 - 17
Ibrahim Umar al Umar	585	-- -- 85	15 Jun 02	16 - 17
Abdul Salam Ghetan (al Shehri) Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The US Department of Defense reports that he was born on December 14, 1984, in...	132	14 Dec 84	20 Jan 02	17
Yasser Talal Al Zahrani Yasser Talal Al Zahrani Yasser Talal al Zahrani was a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 93....	093	22 Sep 84	20 Jan 02	17
Khalil Rahman Hafez (Hafez K. Rahman) Khalil Rahman Hafez Khalil Rahman Hafez is a citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 301....	301	20 Feb 84	07 Feb 02	17
'Abd al Razaq (Abdullah Razzaq)	067	18 Jan 84	17 Jan 02	17

In addition, the UC Davis report lists six detainees that might have been 17 when they were transferred to Guantanamo:

Name	ISN	Date of birth	Transferred to Guantanamo	Age in years at transfer
Mohamed Jawad Mohamed Jawad Mohamed Jawad, born in Miranshah, Pakistan, was accused of attempted murder before a Guantanamo military commission on charges that he threw a grenade at a passing American convoy on December 17, 2002. Jawad's family says that he was 12 years old at the time of his detention in 2002...	900	-- -- 85	06 Feb 03	17 - 18
Qari Esmhatulla Qari Esmhatulla Qari Esmhatulla is a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Esmhatulla's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 591....	591	-- -- 84	10 Jun 02	17 - 18
Sajin Urayman	545	-- -- 84	13 Jun 02	17 - 18
Faris Muslim al Ansari Faris Muslim Al Ansari -Administrative Review Board hearing:Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings...	253	-- -- 84	17 Jun 02	17 - 18
Peta Muhammed	908	-- -- 84	05 Aug 02	17 - 18
Mahbub Rahman Mahbub Rahman Mahbub Rahman is a citizen of Afghanistan who is still held in extrajudicial detention after being transferred from United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba — to U.S...	1052	-- -- 85	21 Nov 03	17 - 18

External links

• WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo Andy Worthington
• U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants
• Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children