The United States Department of Defense held a total of nine British detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
An additional nine detainees were citizens of other nations who had been granted permanent residency status in the United Kingdom.
Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush.
[1] Five British citizens were repatriated in March 2004, including friends known as the Tipton Three, prior to the start of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.
In Rasul v. Bush (2004), the US Supreme Court ruled that detainees had the right to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, one of the first of several landmark cases related to operations at Guantanamo.