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Guantanamo Bay inmate is back in Uruguay following his arrest in Venezuela

Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 07:35 UTC
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A former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was resettled in Uruguay and then arrested in Venezuela after going missing has been sent back to Uruguay, officials announced in Montevideo. Syrian Jihad Diyab, 45, who was resettled in Uruguay as a refugee in 2014 -- was jailed at the headquarters of the Venezuelan secret police after going off the radar in Uruguay then traveling to Venezuela, apparently evading border control. Read full article

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  • ChrisR

    “His lawyer, who was denied access to him, had said Diyab had launched a hunger strike to protest his looming deportation to Uruguay.”

    GOOD, he should go on a fluids strike as well to speed his death.

    The women of Uruguay don't want this wife basher back in the country.

    Sep 01st, 2016 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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