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HRW - No Direction Home: Returns from Guantanamo to Yemen

Written by CP Editor Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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The United States and Yemen are stalled on the fate of an estimated 99 Yemenis locked inside the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some of whom are in their eighth year of detention without charge.

The United States and Yemen are stalled on the fate of an estimated 99 Yemenis locked inside the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some of whom are in their eighth year of detention without charge. Hundreds of prisoners have been sent home from Guantanamo in recent years, but only 14 of them were from Yemen. Now the largest single group among the 241 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo, the Yemenis represent one of the main challenges to President Barack Obama’s pledge to close the controversial outpost by January 2010.

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