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List of Moroccan detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay detainees

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6913124 ↗
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There have been approximately fifteen Moroccans detained in Guantanamo.

The United States maintained over 750 captives in extrajudicial detention in

the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Different sources offer different estimates of the number of Moroccans who have been held.

The US Department of Defense released what they called an official list of all the detainees who had been held in military custody in Guantanamo. It lists fifteen Moroccan detainees.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Moroccan detainees at Guantanamo Bay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.