SANAA, Yemen, July 19 (UPI) -- A Yemeni lawyer says he fears that Yemeni prisoners to be freed from the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be re-arrested after returning home.
Mohammed Allaw, a lawyer and former member of Parliament, told UPI Tuesday that 13 prisoners who are expected to be liberated soon are hesitant to return home where they fear they will be re-arrested.
The director general of the Yemeni Foreign Ministry, Mustafa Naaman, said earlier that his government hoped Washington would free 50 out of 107 Yemeni prisoners in Guantanamo.
Naaman said a Yemeni security team would travel to Washington soon to discuss the fate of the Yemeni inmates, and urge the release of at least 50 of them in the first phase.
Washington already released five Yemenis from Guantanamo earlier this year.
