The United States has sent four prisoners from the country’s notorious prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Saudi Arabia.
The Pentagon announced the resettlements on Thursday. All of the four transferred were Yemenis, who had been imprisoned without trial for up to 15 years over suspected links to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, it said, adding that they had been cleared for transfer following an extensive security review.
Their resettlement brings the Guantanamo inmate population to 55, including 19 also cleared for transfer.
About 780 men have passed through the facility since it was opened following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US to hold terrorism suspects.
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