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Mon 05 May 2009Amnesty urges Cowen to take Guantanamo detainees
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has urged Taoiseach Brian Cowen to deliver on his commitment to accept exonerated Guantánamo detainees for resettlement in Ireland. Amnesty made the call at the weekend following the arrival of Algerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene in France.
The French government agreed to take Boumediene, held at Guantánamo for seven years, in a gesture to US president Barack Obama, who has promised to close Guantánamo within a year.
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