WASHINGTON – The U.S. has repatriated a Kenya man held for 17 years with out cost on the U.S. navy jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, leaving 15 different never-charged males nonetheless ready for launch after lengthy being cleared of wrongdoing.
The Protection Division introduced the return of Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu to Kenya on Tuesday.
The George W. Bush administration arrange a navy courtroom and jail on the U.S. naval base to deal with a whole lot of principally Muslim detainees swept up around the globe within the U.S. “conflict on terror” that adopted al-Qaida ‘s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the USA.
Solely 29 detainees stay at Guantanamo after the Kenyan man’s launch. Fifteen have been cleared of wrongdoing and are ready for acceptance by an appropriate overseas nation, three others are eligible for evaluate, 4 convicted males are serving sentences and 7 are present process navy prosecution. The final embody 4 males accused in al-Qaida’s 9/11 assaults.
Amnesty International urged the Biden administration to finish the detention of the 15 never-charged males. If not, the rights group mentioned in a press release, “he’ll proceed to bear duty for the abhorrent follow of indefinite detention with out cost or trial by the U.S. authorities.
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