Qatari citizen freed from Gitmo prison returns home
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DOHA, Qatar - Qatar’s official news agency says a former inmate at the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has returned home after being released.
The news agency reported that Jaralla al-Marri returned to the Qatari capital, Doha, Sunday.
Al-Marri was detained by American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2001 on suspicion of links to the Taliban and al-Qaida. But, the agency says, no charges were ever brought against him.
About 270 prisoners, including Canadian Omar Khadr, remain at Guantanamo.
But the future of the detention centre has been in doubt since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that detainees have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
Source: Canoe.Ca
July 28th, 2008 | Category: Detainee, Jaralla al-Marri, Qatar, Released
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July 29th, 2008 at 12:32 am
[...] I received a notice from the DoD about a “detainee transfer”. They don’t always announce them, but this time they did. I’ll paste it below. The only detainee who’s name I know was the one I posted yesterday from Qatar, Jaralla al-Marri. [...]