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WASHINGTON: A 73-year-old Pakistani, who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, was notified on Monday that he has been approved for release after more than 16 years in custody at the US base in Cuba, his lawyer said. Saifullah Paracha, who has been held on suspicion of ties to Al Qaeda but never charged with a crime, was cleared by the prisoner review board along with two other men, said Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, who represented him at his hearing in November. As is customary, the notification did not provide detailed reasoning for the decision and concluded only that...

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Three Guantanamo prisoners approved for release 270 WASHINGTON, May 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Three of the 40 prisoners still at the Guantanamo Bay US military prison have been approved for release, a lawyer for one said Tuesday, the first such approvals under the administration of President Joe Biden. The three included Pakistani Saifullah Paracha, who at 73 is the oldest of those still held, nearly two decades after the United States detained hundreds of suspects in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The others approved for release were Abdul Rabbani, 54, also from Pakistan, and Yemen...

WASHINGTON: A 73-year-old from Pakistan, who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, was notified on Monday that he has been approved for release after more than 16 years in...

WASHINGTON: A 73-year-old from Pakistan, who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, was notified on Monday that he has been approved for release after more than 16 years in...