Britain Frees 2nd Ex - Guantanamo Detainee

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March 10, 2004
Britain Frees 2nd Ex - Guantanamo Detainee
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:41 p.m. ET

LONDON (AP) -- Police released a second Briton who had returned to this country with four other men after detention by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.

The 26-year-old man had been released without charge, police said, without disclosing his name. Two of the former detainees were aged 26.

The release of the first man, Jamal al-Harith, 37, came Tuesday evening, shortly after the ex-detainees landed at Northolt Royal Air Force Base.

Al-Harith wants the U.S. authorities ``to answer for the injustice which he has suffered,'' said his lawyer, Robert Lizar.

``He has been detained as an innocent person for a period of two years. He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner. He wants the authorities to answer for that,'' Lizar added.


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