{"id":10915,"date":"2021-07-19T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/07\/22\/biden-administration-transfers-its-first-detainee-from-guantanamo-bay\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:21:48","slug":"biden-administration-transfers-its-first-detainee-from-guantanamo-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/07\/19\/biden-administration-transfers-its-first-detainee-from-guantanamo-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration transfers its first detainee from Guant\u00e1namo Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Biden administration has transferred its first detainee out of&nbsp;Guant\u00e1namo Bay, leaving 39 prisoners at the facility on the American base in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Defense announced the transfer of Abdul Latif Nasir to his native Morocco in a statement early Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, under then-President Barack Obama, a review board determined that Nasir\u2019s detention was no longer necessary to protect against \u201ca continuing significant threat\u201d to the national security of the United States, according to the statement. 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