Belgian detainees at Guantanamo Bay arrived at Guantanamo on February 15, 2002, and were repatriated on April 25, 2005. On October 11, 2009, the Belgian government accepted the transfer of a former Guantanamo captive who was not a Belgian citizen. Belgian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense held two Belgian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 suspects have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United
Cuban refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base refugees occasionally slip into the camp to this day. According to a February 6, 2012 report from "Agence France Presse", ten political dissidents slipped into the base in November 2011. Cuban refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Over the years a varying number of Cuban refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have found refuge there. In the 1990s several thousand refugees were held at the base for years. Most of the refugees were housed in a tent city on the re-purposed airstrip that would later be used to house the complex used for the Guantanamo military commissions. The