The Pentagon said Wednesday it had repatriated a longtime inmate from the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay to his home country of Saudi Arabia, as the Biden administration moves closer toward its stated but complex goal of shuttering the detention facility.
in 2013, and Sharbi was never brought to trial. Still, he remained imprisoned at the facility — established by President George W. Bush during the war on terrorism and for critics a symbol of post-9/11 U.S. excess — for more than two decades after his detention in March 2002.
Sharbi’s release leaves 31 detainees at Guantánamo, the Pentagon said, the majority of whom are eligible for transfer. to President Biden urging him to prioritize shutting down the detention facility, saying it “entrenches racial divisions and racism more broadly, and risks facilitating additional rights violations.”
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