Center for Constitutional Rights Denounces Blanket Decision Not to Release Guantánamo Detainees

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Dozens of men from Yemen who have been cleared for release after extensive scrutiny by the government's Guantànamo Review Task Force are about to be left in limbo once more due to politics, not facts. Many are about to begin their ninth year in indefinite detention.

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