US to Review Gitmo Juvenile Numbers

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US to Review Gitmo Juvenile Numbers
May 23, 2008
Associated Press

GENEVA - U.S. officials said May 22 they will review whether more juveniles were detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay than the eight they have reported.

The U.S. told a U.N. committee on child rights last week that "no more than eight juveniles, their ages ranging from 13 to 17 at the time of their capture," have ever been detained at the facility in remote eastern Cuba.

But according to a list obtained by The Associated Press two years ago under the Freedom of Information Act, several more persons may have been juveniles when they were first detained.

Presented with the documents Thursday by the AP, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Sandra Hodgkinson said the lower figure was based on the best information in U.S. databases.

"We're happy to go back to cross-reference it and if there's a need to update that report, then we certainly will," she said.


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