August 07, 2007
Britain Seeks Release Of Five Gitmo Prisoners
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to release five former U.K. residents from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The move marks a shift in British policy toward the detention facility under new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Brown's predecessor, Tony Blair, "generally held that the British government was not obliged to seek the release of Guantanamo inmates who had lived in Britain but did not hold citizenship," as is the case with the five men in question, the London Guardian reports.
The New York Times reports that the move is "almost certain to be welcomed by the Bush administration," as it continues to whittle down the number of detainees held there.
BBC News has more on this story, and the Guardian has short profiles of "the Guantanamo five."
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