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March 9, 2023

Saudi Engineer Released from Guantánamo After More Than 2 Decades Without Charge
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A Saudi engineer who was locked up at Guantánamo Bay prison for 21 years
without charge has been released and repatriated. Forty-eight-year-old
Ghassan al-Sharbi was detained in Pakistan following the 9/11 attacks,
where he says he was tortured before being sent to Guantánamo.
Thirty-one people remain locked up at the U.S. military prison; 17 have
been cleared for transfer if a host country can be identified. 


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