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Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo

posted by on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the they've-been-waterboarded-enough dept.

driven writes:

Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office.

[...] Oman said it accepted the prisoners at Obama's request. It did not name the prisoners.

"To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency," a foreign ministry statement said.

19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release just days ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:32AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:32AM (#455193)

    > ten detainees released from Guantanamo

    You're right, it's very misleading.
    "Ten innocent people finally freed from arbitrary decade-long imprisonment, while at least 9 more innocents still face excessive release delays" would be better.

    The version addressing the other 36 extrajudicial/tortured/rendered/Gulaged/too scary for SuperMax/too scary for actual justice but still technically innocent persons was getting a bit wordy.

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