The United States is reportedly planning to release more prisoners being
held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, Pierre-Richard Prosper, has made
the comment to Danish officials in Copenhagen.
Mr Prosper says the US has freed some detainees in the past, and is now
looking at a handful of people no longer considered to pose a threat to the
international community.
He made the comments during talks on the fate of a 29-year-old Dane who has
been held in Cuba since he was captured in Afghanistan in February last year.
About 650-men from around 40 different countries are being held without
trial at Guantanamo Bay, including two Australians.
Washington classifies them as "enemy combatants", effectively denying them
the protection of the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war.
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