In the US Defense, they announced the rapid release of five prisoners from Guantanamo prison. About it reports The National.
The Pentagon Review Commission announced that five more people from the list of prisoners consisting of 39 names no longer pose a threat to US National Security and must be released from the conclusion.
among the liberated there are three citizens of Yemen, one Kenya and one Somali. Total they spent about 85 years behind bars without concrete charges.
Due to internal conflicts in Yemen and Somalia, US authorities will postpone the repatriation of citizens of these countries indefinitely. Thus, only the representative of Kenya will soon be returned to his homeland.
Guantanamo Prison was open 20 years ago at the US Army Military Base in the Bay of the same name on Cuba Island. It is intended for those accused by the US authorities in various crimes, in particular, in terrorism. The first prisoners of the prison from Afghanistan were delivered in January 2002.
On January 12, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of PRC Van Wenbin said that the US authorities should immediately close the secret prisons scattered around the world, as well as the prisoners’ prisoners known to the prisoners for international terrorists in Guantanamo.
Previously, the Lithuanian authorities paid major compensation at 130 thousand euros by the former prisoner of the secret prison of the CIU Abu Zubayad. He received compensation from the Lithuanian authorities for illegal content in a secret prison of the Central Intelligence Department (CIA) under Vilnius. At the moment it is contained in Guantanamo prison.