Determined to let out on its efforts to see all Yemenis Gitmo detainees returned back home, Human Rights Watch once again called on the US President Barack Obama to make good on his promise to speed procedures.
Despite many calls from rights activists both in and out of Yemen as well the intervention of Yemen Human Rights Minister, Hooria Mashour, Washington has yet to decide whether allow the repatriation of its 56 clear-for-release Yemeni detainees.
In an open letter published Tuesday HRW urged Washington to abide by international laws and free the men its system has refused to let go despite having cleared them of all terror charges on the off-chance they might following over a decade of ill-treatment harbour hatred toward the US and seek revenge upon landing home.
“We write to urge you to expedite the repatriation of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to their home country of Yemen … The return of Yemeni detainees to Yemen is an essential component of any plan to close the detention facility.”
HRW went on noting, “We recognize that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula poses a security threat in Yemen,” Human Rights Watch said, highlighting that the detained Yemenis recommended for transfer pose no greater threat than others in Yemen … Speculative concern that these men could join militant groups in the future … is no reason to keep them detained without charge or trial.”
A legal black hole, Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been a source of great discontent for Yemenis. Rights activists have often decried prisoners’ mistreatments: systematic torture, humiliation and psychological hardship, warning that such human rights violations only played the narrative of Islamic radicals, comforting potential recruits in the belief that the United States of America is a threat to Islam and Muslims.
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