Obama 'Admin' sends 6 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as 'refugees'. (RT).
Six individuals who have been held more than 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Uruguay where they will be resettled as refugees, according to a statement by the US government and reported by AP.
All six had been imprisoned for suspected affiliations with Al-Qaeda but were never formally charged. The Pentagon on Sunday identified the nationalities of the men as four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian.
All 6 detainees airlifted to Uruguay overnight got to #Guantanamo in 2002.
None was ever charged there with a crime. pic.twitter.com/jTpg0PNzbf
— Carol
Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) December 7,
2014
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica this week in an open letter has reiterated
his call for Obama to free the 142 detainees languishing at the Cuban facility,
saying it would be a humanitarian gesture for "human beings who were
suffering an atrocious kidnapping at Guantanamo." Mujica originally made his offer in March, pledging that the South American country would take in the detainees, thus helping the US leader fulfill his long-delayed pledge to shutter the facility.
The Obama administration has come under fierce global condemnation for not closing the site, where prisoners have waged hunger strikes to protest everything from religious persecution to military tribunals.
Amnesty International has called Guantanamo Bay “the Gulag of our times.” Hmmm....Why not release them in the US and give them 'Amnesty'
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