Yemen Preparing Center for Gitmo Returnees
Will it have a revolving door?
The Defense Ministry’s news website 26sep.net reported last Thursday that the Yemeni government has completed measures to establish a center for receiving Yemeni detainees in the U.S Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The source said the center would help get the returnees rehabilitated into society. The government has prepared a program to qualify returnees and treat them with dignity. The center will also help persuade other extremists to renounce violence, said the source.
This statement came one day after the Yemeni government received the Osama Bin Laden ex-driver Salim Hamdan from the U.S. authorities after five- year imprisonment in Guantanamo.
Hamdan, who arrived in Yemen on Wednesday, will serve out his remaining prison sentence in a state security prison in Sana’a until December 27, according to the Pentagon.
