Pentagon said Monday it had transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman this week after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
push by the Biden administration in its final weeks to clear Guantanamo of the last remaining detainees there who were never charged with a crime.
turned Guantanamo into a detention site for the mostly Muslim men taken into custody around the world in what the US called its "war on terror". The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and military and covert operations elsewhere followed the 9/11 attacks.
Shaqawi al-Hajj, who had undergone repeated hunger strikes and hospitalisations at Guantanamo to protest his 21 years in prison, preceded by two years of detention and torture in CIA custody, according to the US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights.
pushed successive US administrations to close Guantanamo or, failing that, release all those detainees never charged with a crime. Guantanamo held about 800 detainees at its peak.
working on lining up suitable countries willing to take those never-charged detainees.
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