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Rehabilitation centre to be set up for Guantanamo returnees
A rehabilitation centre for Guantanamo returnees will be established in Yemen with American support, official sources said.
- By Nasser Arrabyee, Correspondent
- Published: 21:10 September 13, 2008
Sana'a: A rehabilitation centre for Guantanamo returnees will be established in Yemen with American support, official sources said.
The centre will aim to receive the Yemeni returnees and work to reintegrate them back into society.
Around 100 Yemenis are still languishing in the American detention centre in Cuba, with Yemenis representing the largest number of some 270 various nationals who remain there.
"Yemen will be responsible for qualifying and rehabilitating the returnees thoughtfully, culturally, psychologically, whereas the American government will be funding the establishment and outfits of the centre," the state-run 26 September newspaper quoted an unidentified official as saying.
The official did not however say when the 100 Yemenis will be released from Guantanamo.
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