Released Guantanamo detainees

(RT) ⸻ The US has freed two Pakistani brothers after holding them without charges for two decades at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani claim they were tortured while in CIA custody, and the Pentagon announced on Thursday that the men had been repatriated to Pakistan. Pakistani Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan confirmed on Friday that the brothers had reached Islamabad Airport. The prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was opened by President George W. Bush's administration in 2002, and allegations of inhumane conditions, torture, and other physical and psychological abuse of prisoners were rife. The Rabbani brothers were arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2002 and handed over to the CIA, before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2004. The US Senate's 2014 torture report described the arrest and detention of both men at length. Mohammed was mistaken for a wanted terrorist and spent more than a year being tortured at a CIA 'black site' in Afghanistan. Rabbani's case garnered international attention and he wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in 2018. US President Joe Biden has said he plans to close Guantanamo Bay by the time he leaves office, but there remain 32 detainees at the prison, of whom 18 are awaiting transfer to other countries, three eligible for parole, nine involved in military tribunals, and two convicted of crimes.