Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Quoted at Length in Washington Post About Oman Expelling Dozens of Ex-Guantánamo Detainees

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted at length in the Washington Post about 28 Yemenis who had been allowed to take refuge in Oman following their detainment at Guantánamo Bay. Beginning in July, they will be stripped of their benefits and legal residency and will have to return to Yemen. Oman’s move comes as another transfer of Guantánamo detainees hangs in the balance. Last fall, the Biden administration had planned to send Oman 11 more Yemenis. The transfer has been on hold since the outbreak of war in Gaza. Human rights advocates see this as a continuation of U.S. administrations’ failures in providing stability to the hundreds of men who were subjected torture and detention without due process at Guantánamo. Prof. Ní Aoláin, a former U.N. special rapporteur who visited Guantánamo last year said, “There’s no statute of limitations on torture, and the U.S. debts on its torture of these men are not spent. And so, it worries me profoundly that these men are not a priority for the administration.”