CAGE welcomes Younis Chekkouri release from Guantanamo

<em>CAGE welcomes the release of Younis Chekkouri after serving 13 years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan.</em> <strong> </strong> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-19451" src="https://assets-global.website-files.com/635836801547a1781e7a95c0/6579fcfa5b01eb5e15fef49f_Younous-Chekkouri-235x300.jpg" alt="" width="235" height="300" /> <strong>CAGE Outreach Director and former detainee of Guantanamo Bay and Bagram prisons, Moazzam Begg </strong>said: "Younis Chekkouri has spent an unbelieveable 14 years imprisoned without trial by the world's most vociferous proponent of freedom and human rights. It is an evidence of the descent into normalisation of arbitrary detention that some feel compelled to thank the United States administration for releasing an innocent man. But there are still 115 men held in Guantanamo, more than half of whom have been cleared for release." [ENDS] &nbsp; <strong>Press enquiries:</strong> Ibrahim Mohamoud Communications officer +(44) 207 377 6700  | <strong><a href="mailto:press@cageuk.org">press@cageuk.org</a></strong> &nbsp; <em>(Image provided to the <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article35560329.html">Miami Herald</a> by his legal defense team, Reprieve.)</em>