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No to visit by inmates kin
Washington has rejected a Kuwaiti request to permit the families of 12 Kuwaitis detained at Camp "X-ray" to visit their children at the camp, as Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah will begin next month an official visit to the United States during which he will seek the release of the detainees. "Sheikh Sabah will visit the US in September to negotiate with American officials the release of the 12 Kuwaitis held at the Guantanamo camp," Chairman of Parliament's Human Rights Committee MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei said after a meeting with Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah at the National Assembly Tuesday. He hoped Sheikh Sabah's visit will be a success. Committee member MP Abdullah Akash said US authorities have turned down a Kuwaiti request to permit a committee member or a representative from the families of the detainees to accompany a high-profile Kuwaiti security delegation which will visit the detainees at the camp in the next two weeks. He expressed astonishment over "this American inflexibility by rejecting this humanitarian request."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-07 |
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