Guantanamo captives transferred to Uruguay
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On December 6, after being held in extrajudicial detention, for over twelve years, Uruguay accepted six Guantanamo captives as refugees.[1][2] The United States has acknowledged holding a total of 779 captives in an internment camp the United States operated in violation of its obligations under the Geneva Conventions.
Four of the men were Syrians, one was a Tunisian, and one was a Palestinian.[3]
Uruguay’s president José Mujica had been a political prisoner, himself, and had been highly critical of Guantanamo detention offered the six men refugee status, within Uruguay.
References
- ↑ "US frees six Guantanamo detainees to go to Uruguay". BBC News. 2014-12-07. Archived from the original on 2014-12-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20141208013333/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30367734. Retrieved 2014-12-07. "Uruguayan President Jose Mujica decided to take the detainees on humanitarian grounds in March but the move was put off until after elections last month."
- ↑ "US sends 6 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as 'refugees'". Russia Today. 2014-12-07. Archived from the original on 2014-12-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20141208013755/http://rt.com/usa/212251-us-guantanamo-uruguay-prisoners/. Retrieved 2014-12-07. "The US has taken up Uruguay’s offer of resettling six detainees from Guantanamo Bay detention center, which has stained the reputation of Barack Obama after he promised to close the facility in 2008."
- ↑ "Six Guantánamo Bay prisoners transferred to Uruguay". The Guardian. 2014-12-07. Archived from the original on 2014-12-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20141207141747/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/07/guantanamo-bay-prisoners-transferred-uruguay. "Uruguay’s president, José Mujica, agreed to accept the six men – four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian – as a humanitarian gesture and said they would be given help getting established in a country with a small Muslim population."
- ↑ Charlie Savage (2014-12-07). "Uruguay Accepts 6 Detainees Held at Guantánamo". New York Times. p. A1. Archived from the original on 2014-12-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20141207115200/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/world/americas/us-transfers-6-guantanamo-detainees-to-uruguay.html. Retrieved 2014-12-08. "Under statutory transfer restrictions enacted by Congress, the secretary of defense must tell lawmakers at least 30 days before any transfer that he has determined that it would be safe enough to release a detainee. Mr. Hagel had approved a flurry of transfers in late 2013, but in 2014 the process ground to a halt as he did not move on the Uruguay deal, nor on aproposal to repatriate four low-level Afghans and other arrangements in the pipeline."
- ↑ Richie Davis (2014-12-10). "Ashfield lawyer Stewart Eisenberg no longer has any Guantanamo prisoners as clients for first time in decade". Hampshire Gazette (Ashfield, New Hampshire). Archived from the original on 2022-02-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20220206205505/https://www.gazettenet.com/Archives/2014/12/EISENBERG-HG-121014. Retrieved 2022-02-06. "With the transfer of 35-year-old Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan to Uruguay, along with five other prisoners held for years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Eisenberg said Tuesday that “we’re absolutely celebrating.” He is one of about 20 lawyers who have been representing the Syrian, Tunisian and Palestinian detainees freed after a dozen years in captivity."
- ↑ Jenifer Fenton; Daniel Schweimler (2014-12-07). "6 Gitmo detainees arrive in Uruguay for resettlement". Aljazeera. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20160913032325/http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/7/guantanamo-resettlementuruguay.html. Retrieved 2022-02-06. "Uruguayan President José Mujica, an ardent critic of the Guantánamo facility, said the resettled six would have the status of refugees. “The day they want to leave, they can leave,” he said, rebuffing a U.S. condition that they stay in Uruguay for at least two years."
