President Saleh renewed yesterday Yemen's demand to the United States to turn over the Yemeni detainees at the U.S.-run prison camp at Guantanamo Bay including Sheikh Mohammad Al-Moayad and Mohammad Zaid who are imprisoned in Brooklyn, US.
To Stephen Seche, the American ambassador to Yemen, president Saleh said that Yemen would carry out a rehabilitation program for the Yemeni detainees, who return home, to guarantee remerging them into the society as good citizens.
Last month, Yemen started setting up a rehabilitation center in Sana'a with US government assistance to receive the largest nationality imprisoned at Guantanamo since it was set up in 2002.
The move triggered outrage among rights activists who said the government’s plan to keep the returnees in a rehabilitation center is a way of imprisoning them.
In related, president Saleh affirmed yesterday in a meeting with Washington D.C.-based National Democratic Institute Director for Africa and Middle East Affairs Mr. Leslie Campbell that the forthcoming parliamentary elections will be carried out on time in accordance with Yemeni constitution.