Administrative Review Board

As part of this release of documents the DoD released three files containing summaries of the factors for and against the release of some of the detainees. These documents summarized the factors for and against the continued detention of 120 detainees. These documents contain the detainee's names. The DoD has not explained why they did not comply with Rakoff's court order and release the factors for and against the other 343 detainees. Some of the factors listed in favour of continued detention for some detainees were repetitions of allegations that had already been refuted during the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. ==Summarized Transcripts of Administrative Review Board hearings==

The DoD also released an incomplete set of four files containing summarized transcripts from administrative review board hearings. Over the next six weeks the DoD released 15 more files containing transcripts. Most of these transcripts do not contain the detainees names. However, almost all the transcripts bear the detainee's Guantanamo ID number on the lower right hand corner of each page, and on April 20, 2006, and on May 15, 2006, the DoD released lists of the detainees, with their associated detainee IDs. In early September 2007 the DoD published additional documents from the second set of Review Board hearings convened in 2006. Less than twenty percent of the remaining detainees participated in their hearings. The Department only published transcripts of the hearings in which detainees chose to participate. ==Releases==

According to an article from the International Herald Tribune from April 22, 2006, the ARB had determined three detainees could be released and 107 detainees could be repatriated to the custody of their home country, yet they still remained at Guantanamo. US officials said their continued detention was due to concerns the detainees might be tortured or killed if they were returned or repatriated. ==Observers==

Very few of the Review Board hearings were observed by members of the press. Adam Brookes of the BBC wrote on April 8, 2005, about being allowed to sit in on the first Administrative Review Board hearing where observers were permitted. He wrote that over sixty Review Board hearings had been convened with no press attendance. ==References==