Release
On August 7, 2007 the United Kingdom government requested the release of Omar Deghayes and four other detainees who had been legal British residents. The UK government warned that the negotiations might take months.
On 18 December 2007, Deghayes was freed from Guantanamo Bay and subsequently flown to the UK.
Read more about this topic: Omar Deghayes
Famous quotes containing the word release:
“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)
“The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)