Pentagon informed Congress of its intention to transfer 12 prisoners from Guantanamo to at least two third countries. The first transfer will take place in the coming days.
In the US military base, which demands the closure of Cuba, staying 91 prisoners. Among those who will be transferred in the first place, will be Yemeni Tarik Ba Odah, who runs a long hunger strike in prison.
The Congress refers to the great reserve plans for President Barack Obama regarding the closure of the military base in Guantanamo with located there prison maximum security prison – notes in the commentary Reuters.
about the immediate closure of the database and return the land on which it is located in Cuba, called on March 21, during the historic visit of Barack Obama on the island, the leader of Cuba’s Raoul Castro.
for the first transfers of detainees from Guantanomo occurred in January, when Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro were transferred two prisoners Egyptian Tarik al-Sawah and the prisoner of Yemeni Abd al-Aziz al-Suwajdi.
the Guantanamo prison, opened in early 2002, after the attacks of September 11, 2001., detained about a hundred prisoners. The number of those deemed particularly dangerous is estimated at about 60. The intentions of the Pentagon is their transfer to federal prisons in the United States.
Closing the prison at Guantanamo is the goal, the achievement of which Barack Obama has promised during the presidential campaign in 2008, r. Fulfilling the promise proved difficult, mainly due to the Congress, which prohibited the transfer of detainees at Guantanamo people to prison in the US.
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