Once deemed too dangerous to release, Saudi detainee at Guantanamo Bay prison has been repatriated
Source: Washington Post
A Saudi detainee and a longtime hunger striker at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was once deemed too dangerous to release has been repatriated, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
A military review board in June cleared Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, for release. The board said that the effectiveness of the Saudi rehabilitation program that he is to enter and the country’s ability to monitor him were important factors in its decision.
The board also noted the detainee’s “credible desire” to re-integrate into society and participate in the rehabilitation program, but it “acknowledges the detainee’s past terrorist-related activities.”
The board was created in 2011 as part of the administration’s attempt to close a prison that President Obama has said undermines the country’s “core constitutional values.”
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