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Algerian freed from Guantanamo after 12 years
Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:41
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Ahmed Belbacha turned over to Algerian government after being held in US prison for more than a decade without charge.
An Algerian national held in Guantanamo Bay for 12 years without charge has been released and sent back to his home country.
The Pentagon said on Thursday that Ahmed Belbacha, 44, was turned over to the Algerian government. The transfer brings the total prisoner population at the US base in Cuba to 154.
Lawyers for Belbacha, from the British human rights group Reprieve, said it expected he would be released by the Algerian government and allowed to return to his family.
Reprieve said that he was subjected to violent interrogation, physical abuse and held incommunicado by US authorities …. http://www.aljazeera.com
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