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Release of Algerian prisoner from Guantanamo
04/02/2022, 11:00 pm
It has been more than two decades since the September 11 attacks. At the Guantanamo prison camp, the United States has been keeping suspicious participants for almost a long time – sometimes without charge. The Biden government frees an Algerian from custody – others may soon follow suit.
An Algerian prisoner has been released from a popular American prison camp in Guantanamo and deported to his homeland. The U.S. Department of Defense says prisoner Subijan Barhumi was brought home after nearly 20 years in prison.
Barhumi has been accused of working as an instructor at an Al Qaeda camp. But in 2008 the Pentagon dropped the charges against him. Eight years later, U.S. officials determined that Barhumi’s detention was no longer necessary to protect the United States from a “serious threat.”
Since the release of Algeria, there have been a maximum of 37 of the 800 prisoners in the camp at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Some of them have been detained there for almost two decades without trial or indictment. U.S. officials have released 18 of them. Other detainees are being questioned, including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is suspected of being behind the September 11, 2001 attacks.
37 people are in custody
Republican President George W. Bush after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. Under Bush, the US government set up the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. It was used to detain suspected Islamist terrorists without trial. Over the years, however, Guantanamo became more and more a burden to the US government: camps and special courts became increasingly symbolic of the US war on terror, and human rights groups strongly criticized it.
Bush’s successor, former president and Democrat Barack Obama, tried in vain to close the camp. Today’s President Joe Biden also wants to close the camp. The Democrats are trying to push for the release of detainees detained under his predecessor, Donald Trump, who are not classified as dangerous.
For example, in early March, a mentally ill prisoner was released from a poor camp in Cuba and taken back to his homeland in Saudi Arabia. Mohammed al-Qahtani was reportedly tortured by prison officials in Guantanamo. He was imprisoned in solitary confinement, sexually abused and subjected to insomnia in a prison camp where he was imprisoned for nearly two decades. The U.S. government dropped the abuse case against him in 2008. Al-Qaeda was one of the first prisoners to be taken to Guantanamo in January 2002.
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