Nationality of "Special Interest" Cases
South Asia
|
|
Middle East
|
|
North Africa
|
|
Afghanistan
|
6
|
Iran
|
9
|
Algeria
|
7
|
|
Bangladesh
|
6
|
Iraq
|
4
|
Egypt
|
100
|
|
India
|
27
|
Israel
|
20
|
Libya
|
1
|
|
Nepal
|
1
|
Jordan
|
31
|
Mauritania
|
6
|
|
Pakistan
|
248
|
Kuwait
|
3
|
Morocco
|
21
|
|
Sri Lanka
|
4
|
Lebanon
|
14
|
Syria
|
13
|
|
|
|
Palestine
|
2
|
Tunisia
|
14
|
|
|
|
Saudi Arabia
|
28
|
|
|
|
|
|
Turkey
|
52
|
|
|
|
|
|
United Arab Emirates
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yemen
|
39
|
|
|
|
Total
|
292
|
Total
|
203
|
Total
|
162
|
|
|
Europe
|
|
Central and South America
|
|
Sub-Saharan Africa
|
|
Albania
|
2
|
Brazil
|
1
|
Eritrea
|
2
|
|
Austria
|
1
|
El Salvador
|
2
|
Ivory Coast
|
1
|
|
Cyprus
|
1
|
Guyana
|
8
|
Kenya
|
2
|
|
Czech Republic
|
1
|
Honduras
|
1
|
Senegal
|
2
|
|
France
|
5
|
Trinidad
|
2
|
South Africa
|
1
|
|
Germany
|
3
|
Venezuela
|
1
|
Sudan
|
1
|
|
Spain
|
3
|
|
|
Tanzania
|
3
|
|
UK
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
19
|
Total
|
15
|
Total
|
12
|
|
|
North America
|
|
Other
|
|
|
Canada
|
1
|
Australia
|
1
|
|
Mexico
|
5
|
Indonesia
|
1
|
|
|
|
Russia
|
3
|
|
|
|
Singapore
|
1
|
|
|
|
(Blocked out)
|
1
|
|
Total
|
6
|
Total
|
6
|
Source: INS detainees defined as "special interest" cases on
a list released by the Department of Justice on January 11, 2002, the only
detailed list of detainees that the U.S. government has disclosed to date.
Those held on federal criminal charges are not included because the Department
of Justice has not disclosed their nationalities. Also not included are
material witnesses and any individuals held on local or state criminal charges,
whose number, identities, and nationalities have not been revealed by the
Department of Justice.
For an analysis of these data see section on Arrests contained in the report "Presumption of Guilt: Human Rights Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees."
