2 Malaysians to remain in ‘tough’ Guantanamo Bay, despite conviction - News Summed Up

2 Malaysians to remain in ‘tough’ Guantanamo Bay, despite conviction


Brian Bouffard, the lawyer for one of the convicted Malaysians, Nazir Lep, said the pair would instead remain at the US-operated Guantanamo Bay detention centre. The high-profile detention centre was set up in 2002 to detain terrorist suspects after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York a year earlier. “They will have to remain in Guantanamo Bay to finish the rest of their sentence or until they are repatriated to a third country. As of December 2023, 30 detainees remained at Guantanamo Bay. He served two terms as US president but the Guantanamo detention centre still exists.


Source: Libya Today February 08, 2024 23:23 UTC



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