Bodyguard Ben Laden will be released from Guantanamo after 12 years of imprisonment

The US government commission decided to release from prison in Guantanamo that in Cuba, 33-year-old Yemenz Mahmud Mujahid, who was detained for more than ten years without charges.

Mujahid was the first to be considered a commission convened by US President Barack Obama to prepare the closure of the prison, the Air Force said. Yemenen, who was considered the personal bodyguard of Osama Ben Laden and the al-Qaeda fighter, was taken to Cuba back in 2002, but he still has not been charged with official charges. Six members of the commission admitted that he no longer posed a threat to US security.

Earlier, Yemenets was named among the ten prisoners who were recognized as too dangerous to free them. At the same time, the US authorities did not have enough evidence to be charged.

The lawyer of the prisoner David Craft welcomed the news about the decision of the government commission. “He has been in prison for a very long time. And now, after 12 years, he must reunite with his family. There were no more excuses for his maintenance in Guantanamo,” ABC News quotes the lawyer.

When the Mujahide is released and where he goes after the release, it is not reported. Earlier in the United States, any translations of prisoners to Yemen were prohibited due to the instability of this country. Of the almost prisoners of Guantanamo, more than 50 are Yemenis.

The Guantanamo Bay camp for the maintenance and interrogations of terrorists and suspects in terrorist activities was created after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Having become the president, Barack Obama on the very first day of his reign promised to close the prison, but Congress refused to allocate funds to eliminate the facility.

In December 2013, the relevant committees of the Senate and the House of US representatives supported the Pentagon's intention to transfer Prisoners of Guantanamo into prisons in their countries. After that, Obama signed the relevant law. In total, the prison contains 155 people.