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| Demos Demand Obama Free Yemenis Held in Guantanamo |
| 2013-06-18 |
[An Nahar] Relatives of Yemenis being held at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention center protested outside Washington's mission in Sanaa on Monday, calling on U.S. President Barack ObamaI've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... to free the detainees. "Freedom, freedom for the detainees!," chanted dozens of protesters, some dressed in orange -- the color of jumpsuits worn by Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Four American activists, including anti-war activist Madea Benjamin, took part in the demonstration, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said. Yemeni inmates, in all 84, represent the majority of the 166 detainees still held in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Fifty-six Yemenis have been cleared for release. Most detainees were seized more than a decade ago. Obama in May repeated a pledge to close the detention center. Repatriations to Yemen were halted after a Nigerian man trained in Yemen tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a flight to bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... in the United States on Christmas Day 2009. |
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