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DaSangarTalib
04-12-2006, 02:56 PM
By Kanwal Tariq Hameed


PARLIAMENT will appeal to the US Congress to secure the release of the remaining three Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo Bay, it was announced yesterday.


A letter to be signed by all MPs will call for help and support from the US Congress in ending the incarceration of the Bahraini detainees.

Bahrainis Isa Abdulla Al Murbati, 42, Juma Mohammed Al Dossary, 32, and Salah Abdulrasool Al Blooshi, 24, have been detained at the US prison facility in Cuba without trial for almost five years now.

The first draft of the letter has been prepared by parliament first vice-chairman Abdulhadi Marhoun and will be passed to MPs for amendments and additions today.

It will then be translated into English and sent to the US Congress, where the House of Representatives and the Senate meet.

The decision was made at a meeting between Mr Marhoun, MPs Shaikh Mohammed Khalid and Adel Al Ma'awda with US lawyers for the Bahraini detainees, who are currently in the country to discuss efforts to secure their release.

New York-based lawyers Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Christopher Karagheuzoff and Mark Sullivan are meeting with families of the detainees, rights organisations, government officials and National Assembly members.

"We discussed with the lawyers what kind of help we can offer," said Mr Marhoun. "We asked if it was useful to write a letter (to US Congress) and they agreed it would be."

Coming from an important ally, the letter may inspire US officials to reform their country's military operation in Guantanamo Bay, said legal team head Mr Colangelo-Bryan.

"We would hope that a petition from the parliament in Bahrain to the US Congress would be seen as an important message from a trusted partner," he said.

"Perhaps it will inspire members of congress to think again about the situation in Guantanamo, and to work to reform the operation there, at the very least.

"We're grateful to our friends here in Bahrain who share our grave concerns about the Bahrainis in Guantanamo."

The lawyers, who met Information Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar yesterday, are expected to hold further meeting with government officials today.

"We understand that the government of Bahrain is working to bring home Juma, Isa and Salah," said Mr Colangelo Bryan. "Considering the very bad condition in which our clients are now, we sincerely hope that the government's efforts will show results.".

SOURCE: Gulf Daily News
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