Washington, December 19 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration is releasing three more prisoners from the illegally occupied U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 

The Pentagon says Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep will be transferred to their home country of Malaysia to serve an additional five years in prison, after they pleaded guilty, after being tortured, to participating in deadly bombing attacks in Indonesia in the early 2000s.  Before they were sent to Guantánamo, both men were held at secret CIA “black sites,” where they were tortured and abused.  

The U.S. will also release another torture survivor, Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, to Kenya, after imprisoning him for 17 years at Guantánamo without trial. 

In a statement, Amnesty International welcomed the prisoners’ release and called for the remaining 27 Guantánamo detainees to be freed, writing, “President Biden must transfer these men before he leaves office, or he will continue to bear responsibility for the abhorrent practice of indefinite detention without charge or trial by the U.S. government.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]