{"id":4153,"date":"2008-07-19T15:56:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2008-07-19T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:56:29","slug":"guantanamo-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/guantanamo-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0| In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at <strong>Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay<\/strong>. But a prisoner list released in 2006 in response to US freedom of information act litigation names 21 inmates under 18 when they arrived. A separate defence department admission brings the total to 22. Testimonies collected by the charity Reprieve, which represents 30 inmates at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo, indicate the actual number is much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo&#8217;s child prisoners came from all over the world: they were Afghan, Yemeni, Saudi, Russian, Uighuri, and Canadian. Five of them are still there. They are: <strong>Mohammed el Gharani<\/strong>, aged 14-15 when he was seized while praying in a Karachi mosque; <strong>Hassan bin Attash<\/strong>, aged 16-17 when seized in Pakistan, and rendered to Jordan where he endured 16 months of torture before being transferred; <strong>Faris Muslim Al Ansari<\/strong>, an Afghan-Yemeni who was 17 when captured; <strong>Mohamed Jawad<\/strong>, an Afghan who was 17 when seized and faces trial by military commission; and Omar Khadr.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi citizen <strong>Yasser Talal Al Zahrani<\/strong>, 17 when captured, joined a prison-wide hunger strike in 2005. He was found dead in his cell in June 2006 after apparently killing himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u00a0| In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay. But a prisoner list released in 2006 in response to US freedom of information act litigation names 21 inmates under 18 when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-4153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-guantanamo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}