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Venezuela president offers to accept Guantanamo detainees

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that Venezuela would be willing to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Chavez made his statements in an interview with Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera while attending the Second Summit of Arab-South American Countries in Qatar. In the interview, Chavez also called for US President Barack Obama to complete the release of all Guantanamo detainees and completely return Guantanamo to Cuba. Given the tense relationship between the US and Venezuela, it is unlikely that detainees will be sent to Venezuela. US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in March that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would consider accepting in the US the 17 Uighur detainees who have been cleared for release. The European Union (EU) has urged member nations to accept former Guantanamo prisoners, but EU leaders have requested complete background information on each prisoner they would receive before making a decision to accept them. Spain, Ireland, and Portugal have already expressed their willingness to host detainees. Other EU members, including Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, have expressed strong reservations to doing so.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).