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GUANTANAMO BAY — Two brothers from Pakistan who were held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay for nearly 20 years have been released without charge.Abdul and Mohammed Ahmed Rabbani were arrested in Pakistan in 2002.The Pentagon said Abdul Rabbani operated an Al-Qaeda safe house, while his brother ...

https://sputniknews.com/20230202/us-transfers-guantanamo-prisoner-majid-khan-to-belize-pentagon-1106931509.htmlUS Transfers Guantanamo Prisoner Majid Khan to Belize: PentagonUS Transfers Guantanamo Prisoner Majid Khan to Belize: PentagonThe United States has transferred a prisoner at the Guantanamo detention facility to Belize, the US Department of Defense announced in a release on Thursday. 2023-02-02T18:14+00002023-02-02T18:14+00002023-02-02T18:14+0000americasusguantanamo bayguantanamo prisonprisoners/html/head/meta/@content/html/head/meta/@contenthttps://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e6/04/02/1094431603_0:320:3072:2048_1920x0_80_0_0_f02ac4b759d2326753fee10463fad2de.jpg"The Department of Defense announced today ...

GUANTANAMO BAY — Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades.Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an Al-Qaida sympathizer.Paracha was suspected of financing the group, but ...

Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are set to begin Monday, and Republicans are already signaling their plan to attack her for providing legal representation to people imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay. In doing so, lawmakers are revealing a belief that certain people don’t deserve a ...

Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, was once thought to be a high-ranking member of the terrorist group al-Qaida. He was tortured while being held at so-called CIA black sites abroad before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Zubaydah was seeking to get the testimony ...

Yemeni man who was thrown into notorious US prison in his late teens and spent over 14 years there pleads for its belated shutdown The abuses and injustices committed at Guantanamo Bay military prison hurt not only people locked up there, but the world in general, former prisoner Mansoor ...

Tortured by the US in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison and Guantanamo Bay, British-Pakistani author Moazzam Begg told RT of his ordeal and the vindictive, futile US ‘War on Terror’ that he says “destroyed” American soldiers too. Begg spoke with RT for the ‘Ghosts of War,’ a special project looking at ...

The Guantanamo detainees were promised they were being sent to a Muslim country for rehabilitation that would help integrate them into society, opening the way to jobs, money, and marriage, according to their lawyers and families. Instead, the detainees -- 18 Yemenis and one Russian, swept up from Afghanistan ...