ByAPDwriterLuJiafeiWashington,Feb.2(APD)--EveryU.S.presidentmakespromises,andeverypresidentbreakspromises.WhatthecurrenthostoftheWhiteHousehasbeendoingindicates
The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo prison in the next 24 hours, a US official said on Wednesday (Jan 4), in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population despite pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to halt such releases.
U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration.
The United States said on Sunday it had transferred a Yemeni inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Italy, bringing the number of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to 78.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a long-stalled closure plan of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a move which would certainly set off a fierce clash with Republican lawmakers.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a 607-billion-U.S.-dollar annual defense policy bill despite its continued ban on transferring detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison to the United States.
U.S. defense chief Ash Carter on Tuesday suggested a departure from the White House's determination to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, calling the push by the White House "tricky".
The CIA brutal interrogation techniques cited in a recent U.S. Senate report has attracted attention about the plight of Pakistani prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram detention center in Afghanistan.
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