5 Guantanamo inmates to go free

[struggle4progress]

18/09/2005 13:01 - (SA)

Kuwait City - The United States has agreed to release five of the 11 Kuwaitis imprisoned at its camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the head of an inmate support group said on Sunday. <snip>

The United States in January handed over Nasser Najr al-Mutairi, who spent three years in Guantanamo.

He was tried by a Kuwaiti court which in June cleared him of charges of undermining Kuwait's national interests by committing an act of aggression against a foreign nation.

Ouda said six Kuwaiti prisoners have joined a hunger strike being staged by some 200 inmates to protest at their conditions and prolonged confinement without trial. <snip>

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1772566,00.html


Kuwait says to give fair trial for Guantanamo detainees

<snip> On Friday, the Kuwaiti foreign minister met with the US Ambassaor at large for war crimes, piere Prosper, discussing Kuwait's concern over the reported deteriorating health state of the Kuwaiti detainees.

"I have also explained to him that the measures you have taken have no legal grounds and are not in comformoty with the American constitution and such measures are more harmful than that the acts taken by terrorists against American interest," he told reporters after the meeting.

During the meeting Sheikh Mohammed stressed the significance of the "humanitarian treatment of those on hunger strike, then the cause of the hunger strike must be addressed and third there has to be a solution to the legal status of the detainees". <snip>

http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=770644

[Qibing Zero]

1. Oh okay

Hold prisoners for years without trial in horrible conditions, and they turn up innocent. Surprise! Why isn't this stuff made into a much bigger deal?

[libodem]

2. can you imagine the mental torment

of being held indefinitely without charges...my best guess is there are a lot of prisoners who truly don't know a damn thing about 9/11 and had absolutely nothing to do with it.. The 19 guys who flew the planes into the WTC were mostly Saudis. You don't see us going over there and rounding up anybody who resists or fights back. Git-mo makes no sense to me...it's a crime against humanity if you ask me..for just one innocent man to be presumed guilty....it's against everything I was taught to hold dear about this country.