The Gentleman Report
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11 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Oman, marking but some other detainee switch from the army jail within the ultimate days of the Biden management.
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin notified Congress in September 2023 of his intent to switch the detainees to Oman, the Pentagon mentioned in a information unencumber Monday.
The detainees who have been transferred come with: Uthman Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi, Khalid Ahmed Qassim, Suhayl Abdul Anam al Sharabi, Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah, Tawfiq Nasir Awad Al-Bihani, Omar Mohammed Ali al-Rammah, Sanad Ali Yislam Al Kazimi, Hassan Muhammad Ali Bib Attash, Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj, and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah.
Not one of the males were charged with against the law all the way through their detention, a protection professional mentioned.
President Joe Biden made it a purpose early in his tenure to near Guantanamo Bay. With two weeks left in his time period, 15 detainees stay on the detention facility with 3 eligible for switch, in line with the inside track unencumber from the Division of Protection. The power held about 40 detainees in the beginning of the Biden management.
A minimum of one of the crucial Yemeni males transferred — Qassim — was once “subjected to serious torture and mistreatment, to begin with at Bagram airbase, then Kandahar and Guantánamo, together with beatings, sleep deprivation, excessive isolation, publicity to freezing temperatures, compelled status and pressure positions,” in line with Reprieve, a human rights and felony non-profit group.
“We’re thankful to the Biden Management for effecting this switch and are thrilled that Khalid is a loose guy, however will have to by no means overlook the appalling injustice he has been subjected to,” a member of Qassim’s felony crew, Tom Wilner, mentioned in a observation.
The Gentleman Report has reached out to the Division of Protection for remark.
In contemporary weeks, the USA has additionally transferred 4 different Guantanamo Bay detainees to Kenya, Malaysia, and Tunisia.
And remaining month, an army appeals court docket put again not off course plea offers for 3 alleged co-conspirators of the 9/11 assaults, together with suspected mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, after Austin tried to step in and reject the offers.
