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posted by martyb on Thursday August 18 2016, @12:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the gradually-getting-Gitmo-gone dept.

Al Jazeera and Fox News (Tor-friendly archived copy) report that fifteen captives have been released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba. The prisoners, who were captured in Afghanistan and Yemen, are being transferred to the United Arab Emirates for settlement.

There remain 61 prisoners at the camp, of whom at least 19 have been cleared for release.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 19 2016, @05:16PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday August 19 2016, @05:16PM (#390160)

    > the countries to which they hold citizenships refuse to take them back.

    Well, the same way that there are treaties saying you can't take away citizenship and create stateless people, teh rules pretty much say that you can't refuse to take your own citizens if they get expelled from elsewhere.
    The US isn't forcing other countries to take their Gitmo-graduated innocents back, for political reasons (internal, diplomatic, and reparations), but technically that'd be the right answer.

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