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People and Politics | Guantanamo Bay - Should Germany Accept Prisoners When The US Detention Camp Closes?

490 views · Published 2 February 2009 · 5:10 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · Entertainment

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One of the first things Barack Obama did after taking office was to announce that the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility would be closed within a year. Many terrorist suspects have been kept at the camp for years without being charged. Over 200 people are still behind bars there, even though many are thought to be innocent. If they are returned to their homelands, however, some of them face torture or even death. Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signalled that his country would be willing to accept former Guantanamo inmates, for instance Muslim Uygurs. But Germany's interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble was quick to disagree, saying that Guantanamo is an American problem which the US should solve on its own.

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