Amnesty International - Guantanamo Bay

        PETITION FOR FAWZI Al-ODAH & FAYIZ AL-KANDARI
                  Cleared for release from Guantanamo but still detained

Ambassador Daniel Fried
Special Envoy to Guantánamo Bay
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Ambassador Fried:

We appreciate your efforts to arrange for certain Guantánamo detainees, whom the United States does not intend to prosecute, to be relocated to other countries where they will not be at risk of further violations of their human rights. However, we are concerned that the last Kuwaiti detainees, Fawzi al-Odah and Fayiz al-Kandari, still have not been returned to Kuwait, despite more than 8 years of incarceration without charge or trial. Since the U.S. government apparently has no plans to try these individuals, and since both their families and the Kuwaiti government have consistently sought their return, there appears to be no impediment to that result.

Therefore, we respectfully urge you to seek their return without further delay. If the Obama Administration is serious about closing Guantánamo, it is difficult for us to understand why Fawzi al-Odah and Fayiz al-Kandari continue to be held there with no end to their detention in sight. The UN Committee Against Torture has held that prolonged, indefinite detention is tantamount to torture. Please help ensure that the detention of these men ends promptly so they can then be relocated to Kuwait.
Sincerely,

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