Miami Herald and Staff Report
MANAMA, Bahrain – A former detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returned home Sunday to Bahrain after being held for five years, officials said.
Salah Abdulrahim al Blooshi, who is believed to be about 25, was at his family’s home Sunday night, said the head of Bahrain’s public prosecutor’s office, Nawaf al Ma’wdah, who declined to provide additional information about al Blooshi or his release.
Over the weekend, al Blooshi’s father, Abdulrahim al Blooshi, thanked the small Persian Gulf country’s king, members of parliament and civil rights activists, including Nabeel Rajab, the former head of the now dissolved Bahrain Center for Human Rights, for his son’s release.
Miami Herald and Staff Report
MANAMA, Bahrain – A former detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returned home Sunday to Bahrain after being held for five years, officials said.
Salah Abdulrahim al Blooshi, who is believed to be about 25, was at his family’s home Sunday night, said the head of Bahrain’s public prosecutor’s office, Nawaf al Ma’wdah, who declined to provide additional information about al Blooshi or his release.
Over the weekend, al Blooshi’s father, Abdulrahim al Blooshi, thanked the small Persian Gulf country’s king, members of parliament and civil rights activists, including Nabeel Rajab, the former head of the now dissolved Bahrain Center for Human Rights, for his son’s release.
Two other Bahrain nationals remain in custody at Guantánamo Bay, a prison in southeastern Cuba, where the United States holds about 450 men on suspicion of links to al Qaeda or the Taliban.
One of the Bahrainis still believed held there has attempted suicide more than a dozen times, according to both commanders and his New York attorney.
The Pentagon, which last week said it repatriated 16 Afghanis and a Moroccan from Guantánamo, has yet to confirm release of the Bahraini — or say whether other long-held captives were freed over the weekend