Tag: Guantánamo Bay

Islamabad —  Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Monday that two of its nationals who were detained and rendered to the United States-run prison in Guantanamo Bay more than 20 years ago had returned home. An Interior Ministry spokesman said on his X social media account that Abdul Karim and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country Thursday after holding them two decades without charges at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani were the latest detainees to be released from U.S. custody as the U.S. moves toward emptying and shutting down ...

#Pakistan News Saifullah Paracha, a 75-year-old Pakistani citizen, known as the oldest detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba was reunited with his family after more than 18 years, Pakistan's foreign office confirmed Saturday. "We are glad that a citizen detained abroad is reunited with his family,” ...

https://sputniknews.com/20221029/guantanamo-bays-oldest-prisoner-returns-home-to-pakistan-1102828510.htmlGuantanamo Bay's Oldest Prisoner Returns Home to PakistanGuantanamo Bay's Oldest Prisoner Returns Home to PakistanMOSCOW (Sputnik) - The oldest inmate of the notorious US detention camp Guantanamo Bay, 75-year-old Saif Ullah Paracha, has been released and returned to... 29.10.2022, Sputnik International2022-10-29T14:16+00002022-10-29T14:16+00002022-10-29T14:16+0000worldguantanamoguantanamo bayguantanamo bay detention centerguantanamo prison/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.jpgThe 75-year-old man was ...

KARACHI, PakistanSaifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, who was the oldest prisoner at the notorious US detention center Guantanamo Bay, returned to Pakistan on Saturday after more than 18 years, the Foreign Ministry confirmed.In 2003, US intelligence operatives arrested Paracha, 73, in Thailand on charges of having links to the ...

An Afghan prisoner held in US custody for nearly 15 years has been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a federal court ruled that he was unlawfully detained, the US Department of Defense said Friday. Asadullah Haroon Gul’s release was first announced earlier in the day by ...

Islamabad —  Afghanistan's Taliban announced Friday that the United States had freed one of the last two Afghans from the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after 15 years. The ruling Islamist group said Asadullah Haroon's release was the outcome of "direct and positive interaction" between the ...

ISTANBUL Algerian prisoner Sufyan Barhumi was transferred from the US Guantanamo Bay prison to Algeria, the Pentagon confirmed.In a statement, the Pentagon said the transfer of Barhumi, who was held in Guantanamo for over 20 years, was part of US efforts to reduce the number of prisoners in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Algerian man imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for nearly 20 years has been released and sent back to his homeland.The Department of Defense announced Saturday that Sufyian Barhoumi was repatriated with assurances from the Algerian government that he would be treated humanely there ...

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 ...