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Guantanamo prisoners may be placed in Estonia

  • 2009-08-28
  • TBT Staff in cooperation with MFA Estonia
TALLINN- Estonia is in talks to receive detainees from US Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Eesti Ekspress reports.

The government plans to receive Guantanamo prisoners. They would get free room and board during their stay. There is no word yet on where the detainees would be placed.

According to Eesti Ekspress, the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Interior are currently in preparations.

There are some legal issues to solve, regarding treating them as asylum seekers.

US President Barack Obama is looking close the detention camp in the beginning of 2010.

 

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