Juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp numbered fifteen, according to a 2011 study by the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California Davis.
Three juveniles aged below 16 were held in Camp Iguana, but others between 16 and 18 were put into the general population and treated as adults.
These included Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was 15 when captured and one of the youngest detainees, 16 when transported to Guantanamo.
On May 15, 2008 the American Civil Liberties Union published a report that the George W. Bush administration had submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
[4][5][6][7] Department of Defense documents acknowledge that at least fifteen children were at one time imprisoned at Guantanamo:[2] In addition, the UC Davis report lists six detainees who might have been 17 at the time of transfer to Guantanamo:[2]