GUANTANAMO DETAINEES CHAT VIA VIDEO CALLS WITH THEIR SAUDI FAMILIES

M0n 29 August 2022:

The Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) said Sunday it had organised video calls between seven Saudi detainees in Guantanamo Bay and their families during the month of August 2022.

The SRCA explained in a statement, that the initiative was a humanitarian step to help restore family links, adding that the detainees were able to make video calls with their families in Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah, and Jeddah, through which 50 relatives of the detainees were able to communicate.

The Saudi competent authorities are following up continuously on the conditions of its citizens, who are held in the detention center that was established two decades ago in Cuba, as part of the US measures to confront terrorism.

Their detention sometimes involved a number of violations and cases of torture, which prompted Washington to reduce the number of detainees and expedite the procedures for closing the prison.

The Kingdom was able to evacuate a number of its citizen, who were detained in Guantanamo.

The US has detained over 800 people in the infamous military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since its establishment following the 11 September 2001 attacks.

To this day, nearly 39 people are still detained in Guantanamo Bay, whose ages range between 37 and 71 years old.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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