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Center for Constitutional Rights: Human Rights Groups Praise EU Resolution to Accept Guantanamo Detainees Who Cannot Return Home for Fear of Persecution, Torture

Thu, 02/05/2009 - 4:16pm

CCR:

Groups Urge European Countries to Act within First 100 Days of US President Obama’s Term in Office

CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.org

February 5, 2009, Strasbourg, New York, Paris, London – Yesterday, the European parliament passed a cross-party resolution by overwhelming majority calling for European Union member states to accept those prisoners at Guantanamo who are in need of humanitarian protection. The vote came after debate Tuesday on the question of whether to offer humanitarian protection for the approximately 60 prisoners who remain in Guantánamo because they cannot be safely repatriated to their home countries for fear of torture or persecution.