The Saudi citizen is released from Guantanamo prison after 21 years.
The United States released Ghassan al-Sharbi, a 48-year-old citizen of Saudi Arabia, after 21 years of imprisonment in the infamous Guantanamo prison.
The US Ministry of Defense announced the release of a Saudi citizen from Guantanamo prison; A citizen whom the Americans had not accused of committing any crime despite being imprisoned for 21 years in this prison.
The US Ministry of Defense released a statement on Wednesday evening (last night) and announced that Ghassan al-Sharbi, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, was released from Guantanamo Bay and returned to his country.
According to Al Jazeera, this engineer from Saudi Arabia was imprisoned in Guantanamo for 21 years, despite the fact that he was never accused of committing the crimes attributed to him after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
According to the US Department of Defense, “the Pentagon’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) on February 4, 2022, asserted that the continued detention of Ghassan al-Sharbi is not necessary to protect the national security of the United States and that he is subject to a comprehensive set of security measures, including surveillance, restrictions Travel and share information continuously.
The agency of the US Department of Defense also added that al-Sharabi had no leadership or assistant position in al-Qaeda and was obedient during his imprisonment in Guantanamo and he had some “physical and mental health problems”.
The Americans had previously said that Ghassan al-Sharbi had fled to Pakistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, where he received bomb-making training, and was arrested in Pakistan a year later, and then sent to Guantanamo Bay.
