The New Media Journal | Guantanamo Prisoners Moved to Europe: "The Obama Administration has transferred four prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to three European countries, including an Algerian who was part of a landmark Supreme Court case on the legal rights of those held at the US naval base in Cuba.
Saber Lahmar, a former legal resident of Bosnia, was expected to land yesterday in France, which earlier this year also accepted Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian also first detained in Bosnia. Mr. Boumediene lent his name to the 2008 court decision in which Guantanamo inmates won the right to challenge their imprisonment in Federal Court.
Mr. Lahmar was the last of five Algerian Bosnians in the case to be ordered released after a federal judge ruled last year that there was insufficient reason to hold the men and they should be given their freedom 'forthwith.' Three others were returned to Bosnia, where they were naturalized citizens, but one, Mohamed Nechle, subsequently returned to Algeria.
Also on Monday, two Tunisians were transferred to Italy, where they were expected to face prosecution on terrorism charges, an administration source said.
Adel Ben Mabrouk, 39, and Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, 43, were immediately taken into custody.
A Palestinian, whose name could not be confirmed, was also transferred to Hungary. There are now 211 people held at Guantanamo Bay, where about 90 have been cleared for repatriation or resettlement in a third country.
US troops seized the five Algerian-Bosnians in Sarajevo in early 2002, despite a local court ruling that there was insufficient evidence implicating them in a plot to blow up the US embassy in the Bosnian capital."
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