15th May 2009 - Inside Guantanamo Bay: Desperate prisoners ask where is freedom?’


The Times describes the appaling conditions in which the most recalcitrant prisoners are held at Guantanamo Bay and questions whether it will be possible to close the facility as President Obama has promised. "Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, is now talking of sending up to 100 inmates to Saudi Arabia. Up to 100 more could be transferred to US jails, with many facing indefinite detention, but the opposition to such a move is intensely fierce from Republican and Democrat politicians, who are declaring not-in-my-backyard."

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