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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 00:32 UTC

Tag: Jihad Diyab

  • Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 07:35 UTC

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

    Diyab and five other ex-Guantanamo inmates resettled along with him have had a running dispute with Uruguay's government over housing and living allowances

    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.