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US pledges to review files of Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainees: Kuwait minister

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

[JURIST] Kuwait's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Sunday that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised that the US will review the files of four Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah met with Clinton on Saturday during her first visit to Kuwait as Secretary of State. Sheikh Mohammad told Clinton that recently released information regarding interrogation techniques increased America's obligation to either prosecute or release the detainees. In October 2008, the US Department of Defense announced it had filed new war crimes charges against two Kuwaiti men held at Guantanamo. In May 2008, the US military said one bomber in a series of suicide attacks in Mosul, Iraq, was a Kuwaiti who had been released after three years in Guantanamo. In May 2007, a Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of two former Guantanamo detainees, agreeing with a lower court that there was insufficient evidence to convict.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).