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US govt blocks release for Gitmo hunger striker
(MENAFN- Arab News) MIAMI: The administration of President Barack Obama has urged a federal judge not to order the release of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who has been on hunger strike for more than eight years and is described by his lawyers as being at risk of imminent death.
Justice Department lawyers argued against the immediate release of Yemeni prisoner Tariq Ba Odah in a sealed court filing delivered to a court in Washington just ahead of a deadline.
A Justice Department statement said the filing is sealed because it deals with a detainee's medical issues and a public version will be released later.
Ba Odah has been held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba without charge as a suspected affiliate of Al-Qaeda since January 2002. He has been cleared for transfer back to his homeland but no prisoners are being sent to Yemen because of instability there.
He has been on hunger strike to protest his indefinite confinement since February 2007 and has been force-fed liquid nutrients to prevent him from starving to death.
Justice Department lawyers argued against the immediate release of Yemeni prisoner Tariq Ba Odah in a sealed court filing delivered to a court in Washington just ahead of a deadline.
A Justice Department statement said the filing is sealed because it deals with a detainee's medical issues and a public version will be released later.
Ba Odah has been held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba without charge as a suspected affiliate of Al-Qaeda since January 2002. He has been cleared for transfer back to his homeland but no prisoners are being sent to Yemen because of instability there.
He has been on hunger strike to protest his indefinite confinement since February 2007 and has been force-fed liquid nutrients to prevent him from starving to death.
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