In a first under Biden, 抑留者 transferred out of Guantanamo Bay

By Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - 大統領 Joe Biden's 行政 said on Monday that it had transferred its first 抑留者 from the U.S. 軍の 刑務所,拘置所 at Guantanamo Bay, a Moroccan man 拘留するd since 2002, lowering the 全住民 at the 施設 to 39.

Abdul Latif Nasir, 56, was 本国に送還するd to Morocco.

始める,決める up to house foreign 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs に引き続いて the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs, the 刑務所,拘置所 (機の)カム to symbolize the 超過s of the U.S. "war on terror" because of 厳しい 尋問 methods critics said 量d to 拷問.

While former 大統領 Donald Trump kept the 刑務所,拘置所 open during his four years in the White House, Biden has 公約するd to の近くに it, a 約束 White House 圧力(をかける) 長官 Jen Psaki 繰り返し言うd on Monday.

Nasir had been (疑いを)晴らすd for 解放(する) in 2016 during the Obama 行政 before Trump took office. Most of the 囚人s left at Guantanamo Bay have been held for nearly two 10年間s without 存在 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d or tried.

"The (Biden) 行政 is 献身的な to に引き続いて a 審議する/熟考する and 徹底的な 過程 焦点(を合わせる)d on responsibly 減ずるing the 抑留者 全住民 of the Guantanamo 施設 while also 保護(する)/緊急輸入制限ing the 安全 of the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs and its 同盟(する)s," 明言する/公表する Department 広報担当者 Ned Price said in a 声明.

Morocco's general 検察官,検事 said in a 声明 that Nasir would be 調査/捜査するd for 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd 関与 in テロリスト 行為/法令/行動するs, and a police source said he had been taken into 保護/拘留 in Casablanca.

More than a dozen Moroccans have been held at Guantanamo Bay and those 本国に送還するd have 直面するd 調査 and 裁判,公判. One, Ibrahim Benchekroun, was 刑務所,拘置所d for six years after 存在 本国に送還するd in 2005 and died in 2014 in Syria where he had traveled to join a 交戦的な group.

A 上級の U.S. 行政 公式の/役人, speaking on 条件 of anonymity, said that of the remaining 抑留者s at the 刑務所,拘置所, 10 are already 適格の for 移転.

Advo cacy groups welcomed the move but said more needed to be done.

"The Biden 行政 緊急に needs to 交渉する and 器具/実施する 類似の 決定/判定勝ち(する)s for other (疑いを)晴らすd 囚人s," said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's 国家の 安全 事業/計画(する).

"Bringing an end to two 10年間s of 不正な and abusive 軍の 拘留,拘置 of イスラム教徒 men at Guantanamo is a human 権利s 義務 and a 国家の 安全 necessity," Shamsi said.

Opened under 共和国の/共和党の 大統領 George W. Bush, the 刑務所,拘置所´s 全住民 頂点(に達する)d at about 800 inmates before it started to 縮む. 大統領 Barack Obama, a 民主党員 like Biden, whittled 負かす/撃墜する the number, but his 成果/努力 to の近くに the 刑務所,拘置所 was stymied 大部分は by 共和国の/共和党の 対立 in 議会.

The 連邦の 政府 is 閉めだした by 法律 from transferring any inmates to 刑務所,拘置所s on the U.S. 本土/大陸. Even with 民主党員s controlling 議会 now, Biden has 大多数s so わずかな/ほっそりした that he would struggle to 安全な・保証する 法律を制定する changes because some 民主党員s might also …に反対する them.

U.S. 国務長官 Antony Blinken said last month that the 行政 was 活発に looking into recreating the position of a 明言する/公表する Department (外交)使節/代表 for the 終結 of the 刑務所,拘置所 at the Guantanamo Bay 海軍の base. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Idrees Ali, 付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Ahmed Eljechtimi in Rabat and Daphne Psaledakis in Washington; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Howard Goller)

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