MALE: Press Secretary of the President’s Office Mohamed Zuhair has said that government has received information that 10 Maldivians in Pakistani jails are going to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay jail in America and that Maldives government was doing all it can to transfer them to Maldivian jails instead.

According to Zuhair, President Mohamed Nasheed received this information from a head official of Guantanamo jail and that since President Nasheed does not want any Maldivians to remain in such jails, he has requested to transfer those Maldivians, who may be put in Guantanamo jail, to jails in this country.

Press Secretary Mohamed Zuhair said that government will do all it can no matter how much expense goes into it and the government does not want any Maldivian to be stick in such a harsh jail.

In the previous administration, a Maldivian had spent 3 years in Guantanamo Bail jail. This former Guantanamo inmate from Maldives said that Maldivian National Defense Force (MNDF) officials had met him in Guantanamo and they asked him whether he tried to over throw the government in Maldives. He revealed this to foreign media. He was brought to Maldives by the American military when he was proven innocent.