2 Guantanamo detainees cleared for release as prison marks 20 years
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Two detainees who have been at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than a decade have been cleared for release, according to public documents. The decisions come as the prison marked 20 years this week since it was opened under the George W. Bush administration, a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
President Joe Biden has said publicly that he wants to close the detention facility, and the National Security Council is undergoing a review of the facility "to determine the way forward," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a news briefing on Monday. The prison is notorious for human rights abuses that occurred there when prisoners were tortured under the CIA's so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" program.
The Periodic Review Board, a government entity established during the Obama administration to determine whether detainees at the facility were guilty, announced the decisions in filings posted to its website.
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