Major resettlement reduces population in US detention facility in south-eastern Cuba to just 15 peopleThe United States has sent 11 Yemeni detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention center to Oman, the Pentagon said on Monday, in a major resettlement that nearly halves the detention facility’s remaining number of prisoners.The released men include Tawfiq al-Bihani, who had been cleared for transfer since 2010; Khalid Qassim, a long-term hunger striker who has spoken about spending most of his adult life in Guantánamo; and Hassan bin Attash, who was captured in a security raid in Pakistan in 2002.Reuters contributed reporting Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2025-01-06 23:23:00
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US transfers 11 Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo to Oman
