Five Yemeni Detainees Leave Guantanamo
By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Wed Jan 14, 2015 at 10:33:32 PM EST
Tags: Guantanamo (all tags)
Posted on Wed Jan 14, 2015 at 10:33:32 PM EST
Tags: Guantanamo (all tags)
Five Yemeni detainees have left Guantanamo. Four were sent to Oman and one was sent to Estonia.
122 detainees remain.
Senior U.S. officials say they hope to accelerate transfers in 2015 of the dozens of prisoners already cleared for release from Guantanamo and to complete reviews that could clear others to be moved. Obama is taking a more active role in the renewed effort to close the facility, pressing foreign heads of state to accept detainees and making a fiscal case for shutting the prison, which costs $400 million to $500 million a year to operate.
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