{"id":182262,"date":"2015-09-17T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=182262"},"modified":"2015-09-17T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:53:06","slug":"concerns-raised-welfare-guantanamo-detainee-released-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/concerns-raised-welfare-guantanamo-detainee-released-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised over welfare of Guantanamo detainee released to Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>Lawyers at international human rights organization\u00a0Reprieve are increasingly concerned for the safety and well-being of their client Younous Chekkouri, a Moroccan national who was recently released from Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Reprieve representatives today learned that Mr Chekkouri has been transferred from Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo and is in Morocco, but have been unable to meet or speak to him since the US handed him to Moroccan authorities. He is being held in an unknown location, and has not been allowed so far to contact his local lawyer, in apparent violation of Moroccan law.<\/p>\n<p>Younous spent 14 years in US detention, despite being unanimously cleared for release by the six main US government security and intelligence agencies \u2014 including the CIA, FBI, and Departments of State and Defense &#8211; in 2009. This decision stated that Younous posed no threat whatsoever to either the US or its allies. In all the time\u00a0Younous was held by the US, he was not charged with any crime and did not face a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Younous\u2019 only concern upon his release was to be reunited with his family and to be allowed to start rebuilding his life.<\/p>\n<p>Cori Crider, Reprieve\u2019s strategic director and Younous\u2019 lawyer, said: \u201cThere is no reason for the Moroccan authorities to prolong Younous\u2019 detention after all he has suffered over 14 years. Younous is thankful for all their diplomatic efforts to secure his release \u2014 it is inexplicable, therefore, that they would now prevent him from returning to those who love him and who are waiting to help him back onto his feet. He must be permitted to see his lawyers and his family without further delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"newswire-end\">###<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-org-profile\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-desc field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>Reprieve is a UK-based human rights organization that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to\u00a0Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers at international human rights organization\u00a0Reprieve are increasingly concerned for the safety and well-being of their client Younous Chekkouri, a Moroccan national who was recently released from Guantanamo Bay. Reprieve representatives today learned that Mr Chekkouri has been transferred from Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo and is in Morocco, but have been unable to meet or speak to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}