{"id":1071,"date":"2005-09-19T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2005-09-19T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T13:33:21","slug":"us-to-return-five-guantanamo-inmates-to-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"US to return five Guantanamo inmates to Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid al-Ouda, founder of The Kuwaiti Family Committee [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuwaitifreedom.org\/contacts\/index.php\">Project Kuwaiti Freedom<\/a> ], is optimistic <a href=\"http:\/\/news.amnesty.org\/index\/ENGAMR510012005\">his son<\/a> Fawzi al-Ouda will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/afp\/20050918\/wl_mideast_afp\/usjusticeguantanamo_050918173208\">soon be released from Guantanamo Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ouda said six Kuwaiti prisoners have joined a hunger strike being staged by some 200 inmates to protest at their conditions and prolonged confinement without trial. &#8220;Two of the six, Abdulaziz al-Shimmari and Fawzi al-Ouda, have been hospitalised after their health deteriorated for refusing to take food for five weeks,&#8221; said Ouda, citing US lawyers who visited them. &#8220;The lawyers told me the two were skin and bones and Shimmari could not walk &#8230; The remaining four are not in good health condition.&#8221; According to Thomas Wilmer, the US lawyer defending the Kuwaitis, most of them were captured by bounty-hunters in 2001 near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and sold to the United States. The <em>New York Times<\/em> reported Sunday that as many as 200 prisoners &#8212; more than a third of the camp&#8217;s population &#8212; have refused food in recent weeks, while camp officials put the number at 105.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This hunger strike is getting as much attention as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/000571.html\">bounty<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/000950.html\">reward<\/a> programme run by the U.S. in Afghanistan that put some of these men in Gitmo.  Why is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid al-Ouda, founder of The Kuwaiti Family Committee [ Project Kuwaiti Freedom ], is optimistic his son Fawzi al-Ouda will soon be released from Guantanamo Bay. Ouda said six Kuwaiti prisoners have joined a hunger strike being staged by some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}