Kuwait receives five of citizens held in Guantanamo
Kuwait-USA, Politics, 11/4/2005

Kuwait received five of its citizens who were held in Guantanamo camp. The five men will be tried before a Kuwaiti court.

The five released Kuwaitis aere Adel al-Zamel, Muhammad al-Deihani, Abdullah al-Ajamai, Saad al-Azemi and Abdul Aziz al-Shummari. They were among 12 Kuwaitis who were held in the American detention center in Cuba during the war the US had led in 2001 against Afghanistan to tipple Taliban regime and al-Qaida organization.

Chairman of the society for families of the Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo Khaled al-Odeh said that health conditions for two of the five detainees are very bad, noting that al-Summari ( is a moving skeleton ) and al-Ajamai suffers mental breakdown because of his imprisonment ad he is continuously screaming.

Al-Shummari was among five Kuwaitis who joined a hunger strike they started recently with 200 prisoners in Guantanamo in protest for their imprisonment for longer times without trial.

Sources at the ministry of interior said that the detainees will be permitted to see their families before they will be taken to custody. However, the chairman of the prisoners families society said that the families have not yet got a licensing for contacting their children. On the other hand al-Odeh said that Kuwait will shortly hold talks with the USA to release the 6 Kuwaitis who are still held in Guantanao, including his son Fawzi ( 27 year old) a religion teacher who was kidnapped in Pakistan near the Afghani border by the end of 2001.

A former Kuwaiti prisoner, Nasser al-Mateiri was released in January this year and he was tried and found as not guilty from accusations to violating the national security and owning weapons and joining al-Qaida organization and the attempt to fight a friendly country, in remark to the USA.

However, a Kuwaiti court of appeal sentenced him on Wednesday to five year imprisonment over his participation in hostile activities to a friendly country and training to use weapons and ammunition and damaging the political situations of Kuwait.

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