The US Department of Defense announced [press release] Sunday that it has transferred 17 more Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the number of detainees released from Guantanamo this year to 114. Seven of the newly-freed detainees have been transferred to Afghanistan, five to Yemen, three to Kazakhstan, one to Libya, and one to Bangladesh. The detainees were handed over after what DOD described as "multiple review board processes." The latest release follows hard on the heels of a transfer of 16 detainees [JURIST report] to Saudi Arabia late last week.
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