Uruguay president agrees to take five Guantanamo prisoners

[JURIST] Uruguayan President Jose Mujica [official website, in Spanish] announced on Thursday that his country has agreed with US President Barack Obama to take five inmates at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder], reportedly stating that they would be "welcome to work and stay with their families in Uruguay." Obama is attempting [BBC report] to live up to his promise to release the remaining prisoners at the camp and to close the facility, but there are still 154 remaining detainees. The five...

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