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Cleared Detainees Stuck in Gitmo Limbo

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Posted on Apr 29, 2007

Imagine enduring five years of imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, finally winning your release and then learning you had no place to go. Eighty-two detainees have been cleared for release by the U.S., but remain at the facility, either because their home countries refuse to take them or they would face torture if repatriated. What’s worse, the U.S., Europe and other allies have all but washed their hands of the situation.

Washington Post:

In many cases, the prisoners’ countries do not want them back. Yemen, for instance, has balked at accepting some of the 106 Yemeni nationals at Guantanamo by challenging the legality of their citizenship.

Another major obstacle: U.S. laws that prevent the deportation of people to countries where they could face torture or other human rights abuses, as in the case of 17 Chinese Muslim separatists who have been cleared for release but fear they could be executed for political reasons if returned to China.

Compounding the problem are persistent refusals by the United States, its European allies and other countries to grant asylum to prisoners who are stateless or have no place to go.

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By blog dog, April 30, 2007 at 3:41 pm #

GITMO - BLACK HOLE - one of the blackest stains on the history of our republic - the stolen elections, the 911 coup, the phony war of terror, the war for oil and finally, the tipping point: the torture gulag episode, where (at its most ironic) the newly re-established democracies of Eastern Europe (Rummy’s “New Europe") were coerced into refurbishing Communist Era prisons for service in the gulag - we are witnessing an empire at the precipice of its fall - it is now being documented in letters, music, on the stage and on the screen - we are a highly literate and creative civilization, being led by criminals and fools - the demise of this civilization will be the most thoroughly documented in all of history - http://www.thefall01.info/

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By dale Headley, April 29, 2007 at 11:32 am #
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How’s that for unintended consequences?

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