Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo detention center open

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News ID: 18609
Publish Date: 8:08 - 31 January 2018
TEHRAN, January 31 -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he signed an order to keep open the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which his predecessor, Barack Obama, unsuccessfully tried to close.

Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo detention center openTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he signed an order to keep open the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which his predecessor, Barack Obama, unsuccessfully tried to close.

“I just signed, prior to walking in, an order directing (Defense) Secretary (Jim) Mattis ... to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay,” Trump said in his State of the Union speech.

Source:Reuters

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