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Published on: 07/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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The United States has transferred 11 Yemeni detainees from its notorious Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge as part of Washington’s so-called “war on terror” the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said that among the 11 transferred was Sharqawi al-Hajj. He had undergone repeated hunger strikes and hospitalisations to protest his 21 years in prison. Just 15 detainees now remain at Guantanamo, down from 800 in the aftermath of 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda. Hundreds of mostly Muslim men were seized from dozens of countries as part of the US’s so-called “war on terror”. Amnesty International condemns the prison as a site of “unparalleled notoriety” Outgoing President Joe Biden pledged before 2020 to try to shut down Guantanamo. CCR said that of the 15 men who remain at Guantánamo, six are uncharged and three have been cleared for transfer.
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