New push to release Bay detainees
By GEOFFREY BEW
Published: 22nd March 2007
LAWYERS of Bahrain’s remaining two Guantanamo Bay detainees are set to meet government officials here to further step up efforts for their release.
The team, headed by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, will arrive from the US for a three or four-day trip in May.
The dissolved Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) vice-president Nabeel Rajab said yesterday that the lawyers would meet government representatives, human rights activists, non-governmental organisations and the detainees’ families.
“They are coming to speak about latest developments and see how they can push things forward and to develop plans and strategies to bring the men home,” he told the GDN.
New push to release Bay detainees
By GEOFFREY BEW
Published: 22nd March 2007
LAWYERS of Bahrain’s remaining two Guantanamo Bay detainees are set to meet government officials here to further step up efforts for their release.
The team, headed by Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, will arrive from the US for a three or four-day trip in May.
The dissolved Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) vice-president Nabeel Rajab said yesterday that the lawyers would meet government representatives, human rights activists, non-governmental organisations and the detainees’ families.
“They are coming to speak about latest developments and see how they can push things forward and to develop plans and strategies to bring the men home,” he told the GDN.
The visit comes only months after a BCHR team travelled to New York to discuss with Mr Colangelo-Bryan new strategies on how to achieve the men’s release.
Isa Al Murbati, 41, is being held in camp six, which is described as one of the “cruellest” facilities within the Cuba-based facility.
Juma Al Dossary, 32, is in the prison camp’s mental health unit and reportedly suffers from a variety of health problems.
According to the US military, he has tried to kill himself 13 times.
Both have been kept at the prison for more than five years without charge or trial.
Three other Bahrainis, Adel Kamel Hajee, Abdulla Al Nuaimi and Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, were released from Guantanamo in November 2005, while Salah Al Blooshi was released from custody and returned to Bahrain in October last year.
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