Almotamar.net - Well-informed sources said Yemen would receive in the next days one of its citizens detained in Guantanamo from among tens of Yemeni prisoners there for several years over the events of 9/11 2001.

26september.net quoted the sources as saying the American authorities would hand over to Yemen the Yemeni citizen Salem Hamdan who had stood trial before American military court as driver for Bin Lden. Last August he was sentenced by an American military court to 5.5 years in Prison after he was detained in November 2001 at a checkpoint in Afghanistan a short while after the American invasion.

Yemeni Minister of Justice Dr Ghazi Shaef al-Aghbary had renewed Yemen demand to the American authorities for the release of the Yemenis in Guantanamo bay and to provide it with any evidence against them so that to be tried in Yemen in line with the Yemeni laws.

During his meeting on Sunday with the US ambassador to Yemen Stephen Seche in Sana'a the Minister pointed out that it is not permissible to stay in prison without trial as that is not approved in heavenly laws and laws and constitutions and not by international conventions in human rights field.

The American ambassador has showed keenness on developing and enhancing relations of cooperation between Yemen and the United States and the support of his country for training judges of commercial courts and exchange of visits and expertise in the judicial field in Yemen.

The ambassador mentioned that the subject of Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo is a topic o f discussion by the new American administration as the new US President Barak Obama announced his intention to close down Guantanamo detention, indicating it is one of the helping factors for handing over the Yemeni detainees to Yemen and that the Yemeni government expressed its readiness to try them justly and rehabilitating them and integrating them in the society.

Three hundred and seventy-five officials from Britain and North Ireland had representatives from the European parliament and with them political parties in Europe had expressed solidarity with Hamdan after presenting documents to the court in Washington. Those officials said procedures of Hamdan trial clearly contradicted the simplest of rules for conducting of the just prosecution.

Hamdan challenged legitimacy of the military committee since 2004 and refuse to stand before the court of war crimes last April and said he felt there was no hope in justice after more than six years he spent in Guantanamo prison.