Azeri among Guantanamo prisoners to be freed
The 75 inmates held at the US Guantanamo Bay
military prison camp include an Azerbaijani national, Deutsche
Welle radio station reported.
A spokesman for the Guantanamo jail, which currently holds 220 prisoners, says the list of the prisoners to be released has been posted throughout Guantanamo.
The list includes 26 Yemenis, 13 Chinese, nine Tunisians, seven Algerians, four Syrians, three citizens of Libya and Saudi Arabia each, two citizens of Egypt, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and the Palestinian territories, as well as an Azerbaijani and a national of Tajikistan, Reuters reported.
Polad Sirajov, a citizen of Azerbaijan, graduated from the Erciyes University based in Kayseri, Turkey with a degree in economics and once worked for a Turkish company operating in Russia. Sirajov went missing in January 2001. Shortly thereafter, his family members were informed that he had been detained in Afghanistan in late 2001 and taken to the Guantanamo prison.
The Guantanamo prison opened in 2002 at the US naval base on Cuba and has been widely condemned by rights groups and foreign governments as failing to meet basic legal standards. The US administration plans to shut the jail by 2010.
A spokesman for the Guantanamo jail, which currently holds 220 prisoners, says the list of the prisoners to be released has been posted throughout Guantanamo.
The list includes 26 Yemenis, 13 Chinese, nine Tunisians, seven Algerians, four Syrians, three citizens of Libya and Saudi Arabia each, two citizens of Egypt, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and the Palestinian territories, as well as an Azerbaijani and a national of Tajikistan, Reuters reported.
Polad Sirajov, a citizen of Azerbaijan, graduated from the Erciyes University based in Kayseri, Turkey with a degree in economics and once worked for a Turkish company operating in Russia. Sirajov went missing in January 2001. Shortly thereafter, his family members were informed that he had been detained in Afghanistan in late 2001 and taken to the Guantanamo prison.
The Guantanamo prison opened in 2002 at the US naval base on Cuba and has been widely condemned by rights groups and foreign governments as failing to meet basic legal standards. The US administration plans to shut the jail by 2010.
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