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Guantanamo Bay prisoner Polad Sirajov will be set free

13 June 2006 [13:00] - TODAY.AZ
Treatment of Azerbaijani resident Polad Sirajov will be completed in early next week, who has been transferred to one of the rehabilitation centers of Guantanamo prisons. Polad Sirajov is expected to be released at the end of the next week.

As APA reports, right defender, Elchin Behbudov, stated: "Polad Sirajov as soon as returning to Azerbaijan is suspected to be taken to prison, therefore, he has applied to prison leadership on his extradition to Russia as a third country. But now he has changed his opinion. Polad Sirajov has repeatedly applied to prison leadership for his extradition to one of the European states, and his apply was responded positively."

Elchin Behbudov has stated that neither Polad Sirajov nor his family members wishes to give information oh his extradition and the country.

Polad Sirajov got his higher education in Turkey, worked as a translator in Russia for period o f time. He was detained and taken to prison in Guantanamo on suspicion of collaborating with Al-Gaeda terror organization.

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