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Boumediene released to France

By Ed Brayton

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Five and a half months after a prominent Republican judge found him innocent and ordered his release from Guantanamo Bay, Lakhdar Boumediene was released into French custody after that nation agreed to take him in.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates' rights arrived Friday in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian in a gesture to the Obama administration.

After seven years in the U.S. camp, 43-year-old Lakhdar Boumediene was released Friday and flew to France.

The French government has arranged for medical care if needed, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said. Boumediene has been on a hunger strike since 2006 and was force-fed at the prison camp, his lawyers say.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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