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Clarification: Saudi-Guantanamo Release story

Clarification: Saudi-Guantanamo Release story | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - This undated file photo provided by Ramzi Kassem, an attorney for Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi, shows al-Darbi from Saudi Arabia holding a photograph of his children, as he sits for a portrait inside the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon said Wednesday, May 2, 2018, that Al-Darbi, who was sentenced to 13 years in October 2017 by a military commission, has been sent to his native Saudi Arabia to serve out the remainder of his sentence. (Ramzi Kassem via AP, File) A

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – In a story May 3, The Associated Press reported that Saudi state security said a prisoner released from Guantanamo Bay would spend time in the care of a rehabilitation centre where convicted Saudi extremists are sent after serving their prison sentences. His lawyers say the plea deal that was reached is for him to serve out the remaining nine years of his sentence at the centre.

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