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The prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were promised that they were being sent to a Muslim country for rehabilitation that would help integrate them into society, opening the way to jobs, money and marriage, their lawyers and families said. It was a lie.
\nInstead, the detainees \u2014 18 Yemenis and one Russian, swept up from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks \u2014 have languished in custody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for as long as five years, their families and lawyers said.
\nIn short, sporadic phone calls from undisclosed locations in the UAE \u2014 including a notorious prison rife with torture \u2014 several whispered to their families that as bad as life in Guantanamo was, they wish they could return there.
\nWhen one complained of \u201cpressures\u201d three years ago, the call was cut off; he has not been heard from since. When the Russian staged a hunger strike, he was dumped in solitary confinement and roughed up.
\nNow there are plans to send them to Yemen, where their families fear their treatment might be even worse.
\nA senior Yemeni government official confirmed the plans, pending security arrangements, and a US Department of State official indicated that the US government was aware that it was happening. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
\nThe UAE did not respond to requests for comment.
\nUN rights experts described the men\u2019s upcoming repatriation as a \u201cforced return,\u201d warning that it contravenes international laws.
\nTheir destination is a poor Arab country wracked by a grinding civil war for the past six years. Torture and arbitrary detention are widespread in networks of secret and formal prisons run by various factions controlling different parts of the country.
\n\u201cHere, the legitimate government itself is not safe. Who will be in charge of them?\u201d said Hussein, a brother of Bir, one of the detainees.
\nThe family of a second detainee, Salem, said: \u201cWe fear they will be gunned down or rounded up as soon as they put a foot in Yemen.\u201d
\nIf they survive, they might be prime recruits for terrorists in Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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