The United States must find them a destination, which could delay their release, because Washington does not repatriate the ex-prisoners to Yemen, a country with a violent civil war, nor to Somalia, another country in crisis.
Le Monde with AFP
Twenty years after opening, the Guantanamo military prison is still, according to independent experts mandated by the United Nations, “a legal hole”, a “stain” on the commitment of the United States in favor of a rule of law.
Barack Obama promised to close it and did nothing. President Trump promised to fill her with more “wicked”, but he did not do anything. Joe Biden said that if he was elected president he would close it, without saying how it would take it. According to documents published this week, the Guantanamo Review Board approved the release of five additional prisoners of this prison.
The Yemenites Mouaz Hamza Al-Alaoui, Souheil Al-Charabi and Omar Al-Rammah, Somalien Guled Hassan Duran and Kenyan Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu received their exit good end 2021. The green light at their release 18 The number of detainees promised to be released.
But the United States must find them a point of fall, which could delay their exit because Washington does not repatriate the ex-prisoners to Yemen, a country with a violent civil war, nor to Somalia, another country in crisis.
The prison of the American naval base located in the south-east of Cuba, received its first inmates twenty years ago, day for the day, on January 10, 2002, after the jihadist attacks of 11-September in the framework of the “war against terrorism”.
There are only 39 detainees, of whom thirteen are liberable, although it remains to find a point of fall. Fourteen others hope their release, two were sentenced.
Ten prisoners to judge
Ten of them, including the alleged brain of the attacks of 11-September, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are awaiting judgment by a military commission, which issued only two convictions in two decades. Two were sentenced and nine others hope for their release. The Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the US administration “remained engaged in the closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison”.
Independent experts mandated by the United Nations guided the United States Monday to close this military prison. “Twenty years of arbitrary detention without trial, accompanied by torture or ill-treatment are simply unacceptable for any government, in particular a government claiming the protection of human rights,” said, in a statement, this dozen independent experts. mandated by the UN but do not speak on its behalf. The prison is “a legal hole”, a “stain” on the commitment of the United States in favor of a rule of law, they estimated.
Since 2002, nine prisoners have died, seven suspected suicide, without any judicial suite. Some 780 people were held in the Guantanamo Bay facility, at first locked up in cages and in the prison cells erected in a hurry on the American military base. Most were released, some after ten years of detention without charge.